Startups often forget that’s what they are — new and energetic talents with great ideas. Many eventually were prematurely lured into thinking they are THE hotshots. Eventually, most lose their talents and majority of these startups just die poor and pathetic death.
I got this email from Flickr today regarding their move to a new facility in California after a corporate buy out by Yahoo.
The Flickr team has up and moved this week to Californ-i-a and has been singing Beach Boys songs non-stop since arrival. And you’re moving too!
We’re moving each and every pixel, bit, and byte, all your data, lock, stock, and barrel, from our humble server shack in Canada to our new server palace in the U.S. of A!
This process will begin during the week of June 28 and will result in speediness, stableness, and happiness. For more information, please visit the FAQ about the data center move.
http://www.flickr.com/help.gne#94Thank you, Flickreebies, for making Flickr such a wonderful place to share, connect, and befriend. We love you! (In an entirely non-creepy way.)
– The Flickroobies
In a former life, I worked at a company that was small, fun and stayed a startup for a number of years. But towards the end (my end, that is), something got into its head and made it think that it was one of the fortune 100 big boys though it was nowhere to be found even with a microscope.
If there’s such thing as a company spirit, it makes me wonder if it can go bad like a bag of rotten fish. And what happens when the management passively ignores low employee morals and insists on marching in a tunnel of misguided perceptions and formulated ill-instructed actions? A company only stays young when great ideas are nurtured and dreams cradled. I hope companies like Flickr and Google stay young forever, just like Apple once did when it was at the top of its game.