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> So, Sundar, when do we start thinking about where Google will be in 20 years instead of the next quarter? Why would he care?

• dwrodri 4y ago
  Generally, I'm of the opinion that: 1. The CEO is the leader of the company 2. Good leaders are visionaries that have the capacity of picturing a better future, realizing what needs to be done, and then delegating and executing those requirements to manifest that vision into reality. 3. Sundar wants to be a good leader. It would be easy to say that my #2 is correct, but doesn't apply to Sundar as CEO. I've heard his tenure associated with the "MBA-ification" of Google. Solely focusing on maximizing shareholder returns, which in the case of the company sitting on the multi-billion dollar revenue hose, means cutting down on anything that gets in the way of that. That would indeed allow shareholders to get a great return on their investment for some time, but if you reduce google to a private AI research lab and a digital ads platform, there's nothing left to react (or bring forth) to changes in how people interact with technology. I feel like nothing exemplifies this further than Bard. Perhaps I am too much of an optimist. But it really feels like he should care.