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Many companies say that people are the most crucial part to drive a company.

But they can never do things as impressive as Google to their people.

I guess one reason is due to the industry characteristics.

Google is an IT company. Programming is creation, manufacturing, products, power and everything.

Since there is no cost for materials and manufacturing machines, profits can be focused to return to the employees.

In another word, maybe we can say 90% value of Google is produced by people.

Thinking of the industry of manufacture, what’s the difference?

Of course the employees in manufacture companies create values, but the value of those companies is not almost from the employees.

An unignorable part of the company value comes from machines for production.

Then, the profits can’t be used only as returns to employees, but should be shared to upgrade machines as well.

Naturally, the profits for employees as returns would not be as much as  IT companies.

Another example of financial industry.

Just similar to Google in the way of being service industry.

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However, the work environment is usually just common offices with very long work hours.

It comes to return to employees with high salary, but not return to machines like manufacture industry or return to work environment like Google.

Which makes the salary in financial industry generally higher than other industries.

In my simple conclusion, those industries operate without material costs can operate with a higher profit rate!

Anyway, it’s really great lunch, marvelous experience and a precious chance for me to think of all these.