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Google Founders Have Skipped All of the Company's 2019 Town Hall Meetings
- thiscatis 8y agoMaybe we should have a https://notnews.ycombinator.com https://notnews.ycombinator.com for stuff like this.
- amrrs 8y agoI just clicked thinking this as real (just like past) to find out not found error. But I think this makes a nice side project to train an ML classifier to call news titles - NotNews
- skilled 8y agoI think it's because of jobsism, would you agree? I think jobsism definitely falls into this category. That darn jobsism!
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- throwaway55556 8y agoThey should be doubling down and making sure they both attend. To do otherwise is ... cowardice.
- trevyn 8y agoThey’ve both checked out long ago, particularly Sergey.
- pwinnski 8y agoThe article lists some examples of Google's traditionally open culture becoming more closed, and then states this "has some employees wondering whether Google’s traditionally open culture will hold up." It seems clear that it's already not as open as it once was. How much more closed does it need to become before employees stop wondering?
- mooman219 8y agoHow do you scale a company to 100K people while maintaining accountability for both management and engineers on top of preventing leaks? Are there examples of companies doing this while maintaining an open culture? Even assuring 99.999% of people do the correct thing leaves someone.
- logicx24 8y agoSigh. I work at Google, and this is vastly overblown. Larry and Sergey don't work at Google anymore. They're much more laissez-faire, working on special projects across Alphabet. They don't make most of the decisions that effect Google employees, and don't have answers to most of the questions that are asked. That was the entire point of promoting Sundar, after all: so Larry could step away from Google. And finally, Larry and Sergey being at TGIF's undermines Sundar's authority. He's the one making decisions, and he's where the buck stops, but having the cofounders there creates an uncomfortable dynamic and makes it seem like they have a larger role than they do. So it's not a matter of "courage" and "accountability" as much as corporate governance and priority changes. There's no drama buried here.
- ikeyany 8y agoSundar became CEO in 2015, which is when Page/Brin stepped away. So the question is "Why disappear now?", just when there are so many high-profile ethical issues facing the company.
- logicx24 8y agoI think now is the best time to step away, so that people know exactly who's in charge at a time of supposed crisis.
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- ikeyany 8y agoDo you think there's a question of who's in charge?
- xiphias2 8y agoPage/Brin were on the TGIFs for 10 years when Eric was CEO, so this is not the honest answer. Also they are still the main controlling shareholders, so they are making the real hard decisions.
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- stickfigure 8y agoClickbait headline that is explained within the article itself: The cofounders planned to step back their Google involvement when they formed Alphabet in 2015 ... The idea was to give Google CEO Sundar Pichai the ability to assert his own leadership during a tumultuous time. Not news, but I'm sure they'll get plenty of clicks from the Google haters.
- calimac 8y agoTI,IMG IS EVERYTHING! Previous commenters disregarded the issue of timing as it correlates to the other controversy at google.