- The founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin come to work as if they're just visiting some college dudes in another dormitory. They sometimes arrive in conference/meetings wearing just a t-shirt, jeans, in their roller blades, you know, just pure awesomeness.
- They have rejected funding/investments for years (but giving in eventually, of course) because they don't want capitalists dictating what their direction would be.
- They require their employees to spend 20% of their working time on projects that are not dictated by the management, i.e., on things that they want to do, and not the things that they need to do.
- They have free almost-everything in the Google Campus – free food, free RnR, free laundry, free transportation (mountain bikes and battery-powered cars), and, well, everything else. (spas? Yes, even spas.)
- And yesterday, I have just found out that Google is actually offering its Google Apps for free.
Just a preview of what that can offer: Just have your own domain (sometimes less than 10USD a year) and you can have 50 user accounts under that domain with 7GB each... for free. No need for exchange server from Microsoft, no need to buy more hosting services, no need for Microsoft Outlook (and pretty much everything from Microsoft Office can be scratched). With Google, you almost like have a dedicated hosting partner for free!
I'll probably write some more about this Google Apps soon.
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