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Why Tech Employees Are Able to Dictate Company Direction

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“Don’t be evil.”

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    www.npr.org/2018/11/01/662851489/google-employees-plan-global-walkout-to-protest-companys-treatment-of-women

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    www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-08/google-drops-out-of-pentagon-s-10-billion-cloud-competition

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    https://twitter.com/ssnstudy/status/1112099054551515138

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Kao, G., Hong, J., Perusse, M., Sheng, W. (2020). print(“No.”). In: Turning Silicon into Gold. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5629-9_18

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