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I don't think it's so much that Google ignores the founders, so much as the founders are ignoring Google. I was at G when L&S stepped away, and it really just
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
I don't think it's so much that Google ignores the founders, so much as the founders are ignoring Google.
I was at G when L&S stepped away, and it really just felt that leading up to that, they'd become completely disinterested. S, especially, seemed completely out of touch. And L just tired.
- foobarian 3y agoBG is a shrewd, cutthroat businessman on top of having a tech background. I think he's far different from L&S in that respect. But yeah it helps he hasn't disengaged as well.
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoGoogle would have probably been better off if Eric Schmidt had stayed engaged. I don't like the guy's opinions on many things, but he was pretty good at keeping the ship headed in generally the right direction.
- actionfromafar 3y agoOr any direction? I couldn't tell what the direction of Google was if I had to.
- esafak 3y agoWhat's the direction of Microsoft, Amazon, or Apple? They're too big to have one direction.
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoGoogle does have one direction, the same direction it's had since IPO, really. Maximize ad revenue, to maximize share value. Just all the other window dressing is going away.
- VelesDude 3y agoNever liked Eric, but Google had such a clear direction and vision under his leadership. Pichai, feels like the accountants are running the business. It is ONLY about the next quarters results.
- anyfactor 3y agoI don't think Larry and Sergey is on the same level as Bill Gates. Solo founders who have raised to and led a big tech company is a different breed. I would pick Jeff Bezos, Zuck and Larry Ellison on the same level of Bill Gates. They don't manage day 2 day but big strategies don't go through without their blessing. Even though you can say Bill does not manage, the top level executives will always think "what would Bill do" or "what would Bill think about this".
- shuckles 3y agoBill Gates co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen. If anything, Paul Allen was the instigator.
- saulpw 3y agoYeah and Jobs co-founded Apple with Wozniak. Wozniak was instrumental to Apple's initial success but clearly it was Jobs who took it to the mat. Same with Gates/Allen, by their IPO in 1986 it was billg at the helm and Paul Allen doing something else.
- shuckles 3y agoI don't dispute Bill Gates might have been the business mind that drove Microsoft to its status today as the biggest software vendor to businesses on the planet. However, it's not because he was some sort of solo founder sigma grindset.
- ioblomov 3y agoAllen clued Gates in on the upcoming microcomputing revolution when the Altair made the cover of Popular Electronics in 1975. And there are stories about both writing code on planes while on their way to sales meetings. So Gates arguably combined Woz’s technical chops with Jobs’ business acumen (even though I always admired the latter’s sensibility and vision more).
- anyfactor 3y ago