Google's new 'leave your activism at home' policy, introduced by CEO Sundar Pichai, has sparked discussions in the tech industry. Coinbase's CEO Brian Armstrong and 37Signals' David Heinemeier Hansson are key figures in the shift towards a 'mission-first' approach. The policy change signifies a departure from workplace activism at Google, with implications for the tech sector at large.
Emails released as part of US v. Google show how Google's finance and ad teams led by Prabhakar Raghavan made Search worse to make the company more money (@edzitron / Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At) https://t.co/oeDhbuzEqL https://t.co/C2spF9xuxU
Mission Accomplished New piece from @micsolana google concludes (they promise!) a decade of unhinged activism, brian armstrong’s advice for sundar, DHH on his path to mission-first, and the end of tech’s silent winter Breaking news: someone at Google grew a spine. Earlier… https://t.co/VpIzIIdbSq
With Google out of the workplace activism game, it’s the end of an era. I spoke with Coinbase’s @brian_armstrong, the architect of mission-first, and Rails legend @dhh. Please go find this piece and amplify it to the gods, we have an industry to save. https://t.co/74QsU2sAEt
🔥 from @edzitron on how Google lost its way by taking the path more traveled. He also suggests McKinsey may “arguably be the most morally abhorrent company that’s ever existed.” 🤔 More than Andreessen Horowitz who sells precarity as empowerment? https://t.co/TFFldXaZ65
Last week, when Google CEO Sundar Pichai introduced the company’s new “mission-first” philosophy, it felt almost benign. But when Coinbase CEO @brian_armstrong did it in September of 2020, then 37Signals' David Heinemeier Hansson (@dhh) did the same six months later, the press's… https://t.co/RHAvElK74E
Google’s new “leave your activism at home” policy marks the end of an era. I spoke with Coinbase’s @brian_armstrong, the architect of mission-first, and Rails legend @dhh. A retrospective on the policy that saved tech: https://t.co/P2Ws5bOKlL