CHAPTER 8 Visible Information Making Freedom and Unity a Reality
Google was born first in a computer science lab at Stanford University and then in the proverbial garage (literally) in Menlo Park, California with a mission to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” From the very beginning, Google made transparency of information a cornerstone of its culture.1
The founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, were relentless in making sure leaders at Google would never hoard information and would always be transparent. The phrase they made the watchword of the organization was “default to open.” Their intent was that everyone at Google would start with the assumption that everything said or done was open ...
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