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“Theirs is a worldview in which anything and everything—government, politics, civic society, and law—can and should be disrupted. As Big Tech critic Jonathan Taplin once put it to me, “Demos—society itself—is often viewed as being ‘in the way.’ ”15”
― Rana Foroohar, Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us

“You could argue that all of this is simply part of the “think different” mind-set, one that is necessary for entrepreneurship and radical change. The problem is that with it often comes a strong sense of entitlement and a weak sense of responsibility for any consequence of one’s actions.”
― Rana Foroohar, Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us

“The bottom line is that most technology businesses simply don’t require many employees (think of all the robots roaming around Amazon warehouses), and this will only become truer with time. It’s been estimated that globally, 60 percent of all occupations will, in the next few years, be substantially redefined because of new disruptive technologies. 60”
― Rana Foroohar, Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us

“In 2009, the twenty most valuable companies in America had 1,790 employees per $ 1 billion in market cap; today they have 656.57 Perhaps the starkest example of this trend in recent memory: When the social media firm WhatsApp was sold to Facebook in 2014, it had a market cap of $ 19 billion—more than any number of Fortune 500 firms—and only thirty-five employees. 58”
― Rana Foroohar, Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us