Company evolution and employee migration

I’m at Entrepreneurship Week in Waterloo waiting to hear from one of the Facebook founders (Chris Hughes, not Mark Z) and thinking about evolution in the corporate world.

• Microsoft has morphed to become the new IBM.
• Google is morphing to become the new Microsoft.
• Facebook is morphing to become the new Google.
• Twitter has aspirations to become the new Facebook / Google.

Twitter => Facebook => Google => Microsoft => IBM

Key employees / hot employees move in the opposite direction.

IBM => Microsoft => Google => Facebook => Twitter.

I think employee migration is a great (early) indicator of future corporate success.