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To: Hardly B. Solipsist who wrote (836)	2/10/2005 4:33:45 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15857

Hi Hardly, after a certain market cap, secrecy starts to impede growth. Look around you, and you probably come up with a lot of good ideas about what google could be doing to create more solutions and efficiencies in the world. Secrecy creates an authoritarian style that lacks a direct dialogue with the ecosystem. That's archaic. An ecosystem can be a powerful driver of revenue, given the momentum ecosystems tend to have. It's a tool to be used rather than discarded. Below a certain market cap, secrecy is very appropriate. But even there, it can impede growth. I used to be pretty anal about technology secrecy until our sales guy landed a private label oem agreement with a mid-size public company's largest partner and distributor. A bit of an ecosystem starts to get created that helps propel you forward. Used to think encouraging people to keep their "mouth shut" does help, but have learned the hard way that it doesn't. It just gets in the way of growth. It doesn't take much for a competitor to figure out what you're doing anyway - hightech history has shown many people will come up with exactly the same good idea at about the same time because an ecosystem demands a solution at a given point in time. I think Google's secrecy is impeding overall industry growth, actually, when you consider what many companies could be doing. But given their extremely impressive growth, it's really not a big issue for them. Regards, Amy J