Google's Worth vs GM & Ford

I've been meaning to write this for a couple of week - ever since I saw a startling fact boldly stated on my TV screen when the TV show, "60 Minutes" did their broadcast on the "History of Google".

First let me tell you, my career background is in corporate management in the automotive industry working closely (very tightly) with the big three: General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. After 20 years of hard work, I left the corporate world in the year 2000 to pursue my love of design and put in place my ideas of the way a company should be run. So here I am today working hand-in-hand with a terrific and successful company, BasicTemplates.com.

Back to the "Google History" broadcast:

It was a fascinating show and I give a big thumbs up to all 3,000 Google employees but especially the company's co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. It is wonderful to know that Google's top dogs do not conduct business like most corporate giants. It's also great to hear that when Google's stocks went public, more than 1000 of Google's employees became instant millionaires.

Double thumbs-up to Google! After hearing stories of corporate corruption (ie. Enron) and knowing first hand that companies like Enron are more plentiful that most people really know (because these companies haven't yet been caught), it is refreshing to see a corporation -finally- NOT acting like most corporatons I've been involved with and making more money than the typical corporation (mis)managed with old world standards.

I've got one thing to say to those corporate people who thought my ideas of a way a corporation "should be" run were too off-the-wall, out-of-the-box, and too new world to be effective and who smirked at me while saying that the Internet was merely a passing "fad" {LOL!}: ...

"What were you thinking? Oh, I guess you weren't."

Now that you know my background, you can then imagine my shock when I heard that Google's worth is fast approaching the worth of General Motors and Ford Motor Company COMBINED. Yes, you read that right --- "COMBINED"! To think that Google has only been around for approximately 10 years and GM and Ford ... well longer than I've been alive.

If you want to read the full story about Google, go to the 60-minutes review here.

If you work for a corporation like I did that is being (mis)managed with old world standards and non-ethical business tactics, send your corporate (mis)managers to the URL above. Maybe ... just maybe, they'll "get it". Most likely they won't, but at least you can have the self-satisfaction of knowing you did your best to wake them up.

// posted by BasicSuzanna on 1/15/2005 08:14:00 AM / Permanent Link