Turning Silicon into Gold: The Strategies, Failures, and Evolution of the Tech Industry

© Griffin Kao, Jessica Hong, Michael Perusse and Weizhen Sheng 2020

G. Kao et al.Turning Silicon into Goldhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5629-9_18

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Why Tech Employees Are Able to Dictate Company Direction

Griffin Kao¹ , Jessica Hong², Michael Perusse³ and Weizhen Sheng⁴

(1)

Wynnewood, PA, USA

(2)

Edina, MN, USA

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Cambridge, MA, USA

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Markham, ON, Canada

 

“Don’t be evil.”

This has been Google’s unofficial motto since early 2000, and despite its playful simplicity, the company and others like it have found themselves stewing in controversy.¹ But outside of traditional techlash (a portmanteau of “tech backlash”) surrounding the growth and control that these large tech companies can exert of their users—the world—a new breed of internal ...