Be Evil

Do you remember the early 2000s, when Silicon Valley buzzed with idealism and tech bros told us they were going to save the world? “Don’t be evil” was Google’s unofficial motto; its 2004 IPO prospectus declared that doing “good things for the world” was more important than “short term gains”.…

Really, it’s almost unfair to hold a tech company to its mission statement. From Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” to WeWork’s “Elevate the World’s Consciousness,” mission statements are usually written in a company’s adolescence, at that awkward moment when their dreams stretch to the horizon, the venture capitalists are all smiles,…

If being evil was fine to them, they're proving it now Feb 5, 2025 6:43 PM EST 0 comments Google has reportedly dropped their pledge not to use artificial intelligence for weapons or surveillance, going against its slogan dating back to the early days, “Don’t be evil.” Ironically, Google replaced…

More tech layoffs even in the growth area of cloud computing.  Employees beg Google, “not to be evil” and Elon Musk tells the press he doesn’t give a..  These stories and more, including a smattering of optimism in Hashtag Trending, for Tuesday March 21st . I’m your host, Jim Love,…

1,367 employees have signed the letter, which calls for priority in rehiring severed Google employees and waiting until employees on leave return to the office before terminating them.Image: Sean Gallup Employees at Google are not happy with how CEO Sundar Pichai has handled the company’s ongoing layoffs. Around 1,400 employees…

(AP Photo/Michel Euler, File) The founders proclaimed their motto as ‘Don’t be evil’, which was typical of Silicon Valley’s decades-old techno-optimism. Stewart Brand, writing in Rolling Stone in 1972, claimed that once access to information became universal, it would turn us all into ‘computer bums, all more empowered as individuals and as cooperators’.…

A company's public image is arguably even more important to its bottom line than the product they produce and very much not something to be trifled with. Would Disney be the entertainment behemoth it is today if not for its family-friendly facade, would Google have garnered so much goodwill if…

Google dominates the analytics market with 57 per cent of all websites using its service, according to survey group W3Techs. — AFP pic PARIS, Feb 15 ― Google once used the slogan “don't be evil” to distinguish itself from its competitors, but now a growing number of pro-privacy startups are…

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Around 2001, Google adopted the motto "Don't be evil" to summarize its avowed values and to spell out the ethical behavior expected from employees. That motto until late April or early May, 2018, featured prominently in the company's Code of Conduct. It read, "The Google Code of Conduct is one…