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Ruth Porat is the change you're looking for

by madgar 10y ago

justicezyx 10y ago
I like the disciple. But the change is real. Google has been gradually become more and more conventional. That probably was what Larry wanted in the move of creating Alphabet, after all.
- Cheyana 10y ago
  Yup. From Financial Review: "Before Apple’s Steve Jobs died in 2011, he told Google cofounder and CEO Larry Page that his company was trying to do too much. As Page later told the Financial Times, he replied, “If we just do the same things we did before and don’t do something new, it seems like a crime to me." Yet Page also acknowledged that Jobs was right in one sense: he could manage only so many things before too many would get lost in the shuffle." http://www.afr.com/technology/how-steve-jobs-last-advice-to-larry-page-inspired-alphabet-20150812-k9zoe http://www.afr.com/technology/how-steve-jobs-last-advice-to-...
  - hueving 10y ago
    >Before Apple’s Steve Jobs died in 2011 This is such a strange statement to me. Is there really a chance the reader will get confused and think that Steve spoke after he died?
    - rybosome 10y ago
      I think the value in such a comment is placing it within a timeline of the person's life. It wouldn't make sense to relate a story from 1982 and mention it relative to Jobs' death, but discussing an event that occurred months prior seems appropriate. Imagine it in the same context as "prior to his second tenure with Apple".
    - cwp 10y ago
      No. That's why mentioning his death is significant. It wasn't just sometime during his life, but at the very end, days before he died.
  - Inconel 10y ago
    I'm somewhat surprised to learn that Jobs and Page were on speaking terms, particularly towards the end of Jobs' life, given the animosity, at least publicly displayed, between Apple and Google.
    - mdonahoe 10y ago
      My impression was that Jobs was most upset with Eric Schmidt, not Larry.
hkmurakami 10y ago
Yup. Going further down the "more force behind fewer arrows" approach with fiscal discipline.

Ruth Porat is the change you're looking for

by madgar 10y ago

Ruth Porat is the change you're looking for

I like the disciple. But the change is real. Google has been gradually become more and more conventional. That probably was what Larry wanted in the move of creating Alphabet, after all.

Cheyana 10y ago
Yup. From Financial Review: "Before Apple’s Steve Jobs died in 2011, he told Google cofounder and CEO Larry Page that his company was trying to do too much. As Page later told the Financial Times, he replied, “If we just do the same things we did before and don’t do something new, it seems like a crime to me." Yet Page also acknowledged that Jobs was right in one sense: he could manage only so many things before too many would get lost in the shuffle." http://www.afr.com/technology/how-steve-jobs-last-advice-to-larry-page-inspired-alphabet-20150812-k9zoe http://www.afr.com/technology/how-steve-jobs-last-advice-to-...
- hueving 10y ago
  >Before Apple’s Steve Jobs died in 2011 This is such a strange statement to me. Is there really a chance the reader will get confused and think that Steve spoke after he died?
  - rybosome 10y ago
    I think the value in such a comment is placing it within a timeline of the person's life. It wouldn't make sense to relate a story from 1982 and mention it relative to Jobs' death, but discussing an event that occurred months prior seems appropriate. Imagine it in the same context as "prior to his second tenure with Apple".
  - cwp 10y ago
    No. That's why mentioning his death is significant. It wasn't just sometime during his life, but at the very end, days before he died.
- Inconel 10y ago
  I'm somewhat surprised to learn that Jobs and Page were on speaking terms, particularly towards the end of Jobs' life, given the animosity, at least publicly displayed, between Apple and Google.
  - mdonahoe 10y ago
    My impression was that Jobs was most upset with Eric Schmidt, not Larry.

hkmurakami 10y ago

Yup. Going further down the "more force behind fewer arrows" approach with fiscal discipline.