Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots
I'd like to see him break Google up in to individual product "companies", each with their own office, corporate hierarchy, balance sheet, and near complete autonomy.Larry would act as the investor, and anyone inside the company could come ask for money to found a new "company" or for additional funding. Every company would start out with some kind of "shares" to be distributed by the founders (with vesting, etc). If a company fails the people would actually lose their jobs. If they succeed the equity would be worth some proportionally huge amount.I don't think any company has ever tried to truly simulate startups on a scale like this while maintaining the upside and downside of a real startup.It's just crazy enough to work and he's just crazy enough to try it.