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No, they don't care to own most people's weekend projects. They wouldn't have any claim on that anyways.

But when someone is spending the time Google pays for to work on a startup, I would THINK they would care about that. Or maybe Google's internal processes is okay with them doing 1 hr/day of work "as long as they're getting done whats expected of them."

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> work on a startup, I would THINK they would care about that

The decision is not made based on whether the work is a "startup" or not. It's not even clear what a startup is - some companies that are worth more than $1 Billion are still somehow "startup".

It's based on conflict of interest, legitimate business competition, leaking/selling sensitive information, and other concrete criteria, in my opinion, are quite fair.

It does not depend on whether it is a "startup" or not

Yeah the startup part is not important, its all the other stuff, but thanks explaining what a startup is/isn't.

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