It turned out that many of the technical people didn’t view the awards as attainable either, because not every product has the same impact on the world, rolls out as quickly, or is as easily measurable. Improving our Ads systems has immediate impact that’s easy to gauge. Is that more valuable or harder to do than improving the resolution of our Maps imagery? What about building collaborative online word processing tools, like the one being used to write this book? Hard to say. Over time, many technical people started viewing Founders’ Awards as just a bit out of reach, reserved mainly for a
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Yeah this is what i was concerned about. It heavily depends on the area someone works in and probably leans way toward the direct revenue generating opportunities.
