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In both cases they went from being run by a CEO who had experience as an engineer to someone with more of a business background
by Cyclone_ 8y ago
In both cases they went from being run by a CEO who had experience as an engineer to someone with more of a business background
- nostrademons 8y agoAlso from a founder to someone who had risen through the ranks as a manager & executive.
- aylmao 8y ago+1. It takes a certain kind of people to raise through the ranks like that, so you automatically filter out people who might be more akin to the original founders. Vision _might_ be an asset when rising through the ranks, but pleasing superiors, hitting metric, politics and luck probably overwhelm it.
- john_moscow 8y agoI think it's more about transitioning from the founder-type CEO driven by vision to the maintainer-type CEO who only cares about pleasing the board to keep his position as long as possible.
- doorbellguy 8y agoReminds me of Cook after Jobs.
- ck425 8y agoTbf while Cook doesn't have the product vision of Jobs, he does have a clear strategic/what we want Apple to be vision. He's a post founder CEO for sure, but one of the best and a different league from Pichai by all accounts.
- make3 8y agolike Apple's ceo
- riffraff 8y agoBallmer was employee #30 at microsoft. While not technically a founder, he had been with the company 20 years out its 25 years of existence before becoming MSFT's CEO.