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Sure, but he decides how to allocate resources, make acquisitions, etc. across over 100k employees. If he decided to pull another Google+ he could easily destro
by opportune 3y ago
Sure, but he decides how to allocate resources, make acquisitions, etc. across over 100k employees. If he decided to pull another Google+ he could easily destroy many tens of thousands of engineers’ worth of labor. And it’d only take him a few hundred hours to make that decision, set up the org to lead the project and delegate the execution to them. Putting those engineers on something that actually makes money and is a viable business like Cloud could do the opposite.
It’s not about the time it takes him to make these decisions so much as the quality of his decisions having potentially massive $ impacts on the company’s performance.
- Klinky 3y agoNone of that is really his call to make alone, upper management & the board also has influence & burdens much of the load. This idea that he's the only man in the room or on the planet that could do this position seems pretty absurd.
- cudgy 3y agoAny moron knew it was time to invest in da Cloud once AWS was successful. I’d expect more interesting ideas than the old tried and true “get some lucrative government and enterprise contracts”, “guess we better dust off our AI tech and react to OpenAI”, etc. He seems to be a reactionary not a visionary.
- ztrww 3y ago> Any moron knew it was time to invest in da Cloud once AWS was successful. Yet Google doesn’t seem to be doing all that well at all in this area. At least relatively…
- cudgy 3y agoYes, he was late and executed poorly. Generally Google is operationally deficient, but technically rich. That is a management problem. The best thing for Google is to split up into parts so they can become more focused and lean within each business category: social media, ads, search, cloud services, etc