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A well deserved congratulations to Sundar's promotion! Larry and Sergey have spent the majority of their time on Other Bets for quite some time now, and it's g
by lawrenceyan 7y ago
A well deserved congratulations to Sundar's promotion!
Larry and Sergey have spent the majority of their time on Other Bets for quite some time now, and it's good to see that this is finally being solidified / recognized within Alphabet's management structure.
- option 7y agoCan someone please explain why it is well deserved? For example, when I was at MSFT it was very clear why Satya deserved to be the next CEO - for leading and growing the cloud business from irrelevance to a major pillar of MSFT. What about Sundar? Is this all because he led Chrome?
- coffee12345 7y agohe just released stadia, the greatest gaming console of all time
- DevKoala 7y agoIt is way too early to measure the success or failure of Stadia.
- xzel 7y agoHe's being sarcastic (I hope).
- aaronharder 7y agoEither way, too early.
- Jamwinner 7y agoThe amount of advertising (every single youtube video for the last 3 months), and lack of any excitement amoung gamers, hardcore or casual, does seem damning.
- eigenvalue 7y agoThe launch at least is a very clear failure. The product is hopelessly broken. By far my worst experience to date with a google product. They really should give everyone a full refund as a gesture of goodwill.
- Proven 7y agoThat's funny. You made me laugh. Thanks!
- lawrenceyan 7y agoHe's been leading Google now as CEO for multiple years. As I said in my original comment, Larry and Sergey have devoted the majority of their time to Other Bets for a while. Sundar's promotion here is really just recognizing the role he's effectively had for some time at this point.
- dhdhebsb 7y agowtf are Other Bets?
- jm4 7y agoI don’t get it either. Google’s reputation has been lousy, there’s something weird going on among employees and the company isn’t clearly advancing in any particular area. Sundar strikes me as Google’s Ballmer. Satya, on the other hand, has been outstanding. Microsoft has transformed and looks like a company that will be dominant for at least another 20 years.
- tehlike 7y agoGoogle would be lucky if sundar was ballmer. Ballmer doesnt get enough credit for pivoting msft into enterprise...
- yoz-y 7y agoPivoting into entreprise from what? Microsoft always targeted entreprise first.
- jonny_eh 7y agoHe didn’t pivot to enterprise as much as totally forfeiting the consumer space.
- ambernightcrush 7y agoBallmer was good at business and running the day-to-day housekeeping. But his legacy will always be that of Windows 8, of Surface RT, of dismissing the iPhone; frankly he didn't understand enterprise customers either. He was never the visionary leader.
- sharkweek 7y agoI cannot believe the transition Microsoft has pulled off. Living in Seattle, a notable % of my social circle was at Amazon for the last decade, but more and more are heading across the lake as MSFT reshapes itself.
- congratsbot 7y agoMicrosoft has made an amazing transition. Kudos to them.
- perseusprime11 7y agoLook at Google's growth and sharehder value under Sundar. While Satya transformed Microsoft and made hard decisions like divert resources away from Windows to Azure, Sundar with the help of his CFO steadied the Google Ship and increased the monetization of their ads on Mobile when everyone thought Google have a hard time on Mobile.
- avocado4 7y ago> Can someone please explain why it is well deserved?' GOOG went from 550 to 1300 under Sundar's term as CEO.
- sigstoat 7y agolooks like you rounded those a bit. contextualized a bit: GOOG did 19.4% annualized during Sundar's term, and the S&P500 did 14.3% annualized over the same time. ish.
- est31 7y agoHe also led Android which is one of the few diversification attempts of Google that turned out to be successful.
- H8crilA 7y agoThere's really no need for corpspeak here.
- catach 7y agoWhen you're immersed in corpspeak constantly it takes a conscious effort to realize when you're in a non-corpspeak context.
- cmrdporcupine 7y agoIndeed one of the things that has always baffled me in my eight years at Google is the culture of bottomless "Congrats!" reply-all emails that come out at promotions, product launches, etc. And here we see one on HN :-)
- jmgao 7y agobadge plz
- congratsbot 7y agoWell Done! Excellent execution.
- partingshots 7y agoIt just looks like a congratulations to me to be honest, but perhaps that has to do with the fact that German is my native language. Would you mind explaining what you mean by ‘corpspeak’ with that person’s comment? I wouldn’t be surprised if I wrote something like that in a similar tone.
- kfrzcode 7y agoI'm guessing the "Other Bets" phrase
- pg_is_a_butt 7y agoI thought the entire point of Alphabet was the "Other Bets" than Google. So now the CEO of "Other Bets" is also the CEO of the main bet... so what's even the point of separating the companies other than the tax dodge? oh, right.