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App founder quits Google, says company doesn’t serve users anymore
- kderbyma 4y agoPinchai has been the most lack luster CEO for Google. He has no energy, and feels like a puppet.
- olliej 4y agoGoogle has supported its primary users for years - those users are the people paying them to run ads. I haven't seen or heard anything about google making it harder to pay them to display ads.
- __derek__ 4y agoActive discussion of the post itself from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34799308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34799308
- metadat 4y ago(300+ comments, quite an active discussion)
- Picblick 4y agoGoogle does not care about the users of their services? That's weird, how could this be? That's weird.
- 1101010010 4y ago> Seshadri left Google the second his "three year mandatory retention period" was up What is a mandatory retention period? Sounds like a stock vesting schedule to me.
- mcqueenjordan 4y agoThey sold their company to Google. Acquisitions like that typically come with special terms for large shareholders of the company being acquired.
- slac 4y agoFunny how customers disliked this person.
- bmitc 4y agoWhile I no doubt believe these things are true, these are interesting stances coming from people knowingly selling their companies to Google, who has had this reputation for a while. Did these CEOs have users front of mind? It's not blame because I'm not sure I could turn down retire-in-three-years money, but it is a choice they made for their users.
- pschuegr 4y agoI assume this was a rhetorical question, because I, at least, assume that most CEOs care for their users extends only to the point that they can monetize them. Which means it stops dead when the company is sold.
- bdcravens 4y agoDid they have a perception that in 2020 Google was serving their users, or they believed it all along, but took the payday anyways?