Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline
So many companies try to emulate how Google works.  There are multiple books, hundreds or thousands of articles.  People speculate on the perks, the review structure, the hierarchy, the autonomy.<p>However, when other companies try to imitate Google they always fail because they&#x27;re missing a crucial piece:<p><i>Billions of dollars in ad revenue</i><p>Google doesn&#x27;t work the way it does to be successful.  It works that way <i>because</i> it is successful.<p>I found this no more evident than when I worked on Google Search itself.