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IF his forte is operations, more Ballmer and Cook to a visionary, it makes sense. Put a new visionary in charge of Google, and start focusing on turning the ot

by basch 7y ago

IF his forte is operations, more Ballmer and Cook to a visionary, it makes sense. Put a new visionary in charge of Google, and start focusing on turning the other bets into self sustaining companies. Maybe split google up a bit too, make CGP its own bet. You could even make the case for Youtube, Nest/Pixel, Doubleclick, maybe Android. Refocus google on being an information sorting and calling tool, whether that be search, shopping, maps, gmail, photos. Google could benefit a bit from the Bezos API memo AND a bit from the Jobsesque "singular vision not kitchen sink of requested features" refinement. Paring google down and giving sects more singular visions, while encouraging cohesiveness might need a Bain Capital type chopman, but after that is said and done, Alphabet Chief should be more important than Google Chief. Pichai's job should be demarcing responsibility and org chart, giving focus.

scarface74 7y ago
A “visionary” without any operations expertise is useless. Cook has as much to do with the rise of Apple as Jobs. Jobs wouldn’t have had the supply chain experience to manufacturer 100 million iPods at his height or all the products that it ships now.
- basch 7y ago
  and Pichai would still be there. I fully 100% agree, Cook is who scaled Apple. Whoever else decided to allow iTunes onto Windows should be shown a lot of respect as well. That was a very uncharacteristic and forward thinking move. Putting a visionary in the drivers seat of google doesnt mean that operations should be thrown to the wayside. And part of that pretense is paring down and refining what "google" is. GCP obviously needs a more salesman/finance/trustworthy leader at the moment. One who can walk into a Fortune 100 company and say "trust us to be your foundation." That div reinventing itself shouldt be hampered by Google needing to become truly innovative again. The worst part about reinventing search specifically, is that if done right, its a bit of a thankless endeavor. Google search is so seamless and chromeless, that when it works you dont even notice it. It's job is to present other information.
  - scarface74 7y ago
    That’s true about GCP. I don’t care how good GCP is technically, I wouldn’t bet my career on it as either a person spending time developing on top of it or as a potential decision maker. While I haven’t worked with Azure specifically besides what is now called “Azure Devops”, MS’s enterprise support is legendary. I work for a company now that has AWS business support. I use the live chat all of the time as an “easy button”. Not when something is wrong, just when I don’t want to spend too much time trying to figure something out. They are excellent and batting close to 100.
    - basch 7y ago
      >Not when something is wrong, just when I don’t want to spend too much time trying to figure something out. That is how support should work in general. Support has become so much "thats outside the scope of your contract" or "blame other vendor" instead of a shortcut to training. If my provider has already seen a problem I've run into, its in their best interest to get me moving again, so I can use more of their product and extend their tentacles further into my business.

by basch 7y ago

scarface74 7y ago

A “visionary” without any operations expertise is useless. Cook has as much to do with the rise of Apple as Jobs. Jobs wouldn’t have had the supply chain experience to manufacturer 100 million iPods at his height or all the products that it ships now.

basch 7y ago
and Pichai would still be there. I fully 100% agree, Cook is who scaled Apple. Whoever else decided to allow iTunes onto Windows should be shown a lot of respect as well. That was a very uncharacteristic and forward thinking move. Putting a visionary in the drivers seat of google doesnt mean that operations should be thrown to the wayside. And part of that pretense is paring down and refining what "google" is. GCP obviously needs a more salesman/finance/trustworthy leader at the moment. One who can walk into a Fortune 100 company and say "trust us to be your foundation." That div reinventing itself shouldt be hampered by Google needing to become truly innovative again. The worst part about reinventing search specifically, is that if done right, its a bit of a thankless endeavor. Google search is so seamless and chromeless, that when it works you dont even notice it. It's job is to present other information.
- scarface74 7y ago
  That’s true about GCP. I don’t care how good GCP is technically, I wouldn’t bet my career on it as either a person spending time developing on top of it or as a potential decision maker. While I haven’t worked with Azure specifically besides what is now called “Azure Devops”, MS’s enterprise support is legendary. I work for a company now that has AWS business support. I use the live chat all of the time as an “easy button”. Not when something is wrong, just when I don’t want to spend too much time trying to figure something out. They are excellent and batting close to 100.
  - basch 7y ago
    >Not when something is wrong, just when I don’t want to spend too much time trying to figure something out. That is how support should work in general. Support has become so much "thats outside the scope of your contract" or "blame other vendor" instead of a shortcut to training. If my provider has already seen a problem I've run into, its in their best interest to get me moving again, so I can use more of their product and extend their tentacles further into my business.