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Can 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 g
by option 7y ago
Can 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.