He’s speaking to a bunch of Standford students and giving advice, so it’s not that absurd. But it is pretty absurd to tell potential entrepreneurs “Make sure you pay as much as possible for real estate in a big city, and then overpay for talent because your office is in a big city.”
Talking to students at Stanford about startups is fine. Projecting his concerns about WFH employees for his own company onto them is nonsense and disingenuous, as Google is about the furthest they could possibly be from a startup nowadays.
He’s speaking to a bunch of Standford students and giving advice, so it’s not that absurd. But it is pretty absurd to tell potential entrepreneurs “Make sure you pay as much as possible for real estate in a big city, and then overpay for talent because your office is in a big city.”
If his goal is for his company to win I wouldn’t be taking his advice.he has a financial incentive to sabotage future competition
Talking to students at Stanford about startups is fine. Projecting his concerns about WFH employees for his own company onto them is nonsense and disingenuous, as Google is about the furthest they could possibly be from a startup nowadays.