A Google insider spills the tea on how the company forsook its founding ideals
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Claire Stapleton, once known as the "Bard of Google," helped organize a massive 20,000-employee walkout in 2018 over sexual misconduct allegations, then resigned after being demoted. Her new memoir, "Don't Be Evil," traces Google's cultural decline, pinpointing Larry Page's 2011 CEO takeover as a turning point that created bureaucratic bloat and eroded the worker-friendly values the company once promoted.
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