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When they put Sundar Pichai, a person of little brilliance, to lead Google, it was clear that they want to transform the place into just another money maker and
by coliveira 1y ago
When they put Sundar Pichai, a person of little brilliance, to lead Google, it was clear that they want to transform the place into just another money maker and destroy the original culture of the company.
- ocdtrekkie 1y agoSundar is brilliant, just not in the ways you want. He went from developing an IE browser extension to a web browser to running the world's most powerful company. He understood that what Google needed to keep the numbers going up was not better search, but better market capture.
- haiku2077 1y agoI wouldn't call Google the world's most powerful company. Saudi Aramco, for example, has more power.
- dehrmann 1y ago> Saudi Aramco It's powerful to a point. If it tries to flex its power too much, and international military coalition rolls over Saudi Arabia.
- kridsdale1 1y agoThe House of Saud has done an incredible job ingratiating with multiple Republican Presidents personal family dynasties. They’ll be fine.
- kridsdale1 1y agoSaudi Aramco exists because the British Empire favored one nomad tribe over their adversaries to be granted land that appeared worthless but turned out to be covering the largest pile of treasure in the world.
- absolutelastone 1y agoIt has always seemed to me that level of strategic direction doesn't come from the CEO's brain, but from the big investors. The CEO's job is to execute what they want.
- rixed 1y agoI would date this turnpoint decision back to when L. Page said in a meeting that, from now on, Google had to have as many engineers than Microsoft.
- pjmlp 1y agoAs someone that mostly enjoys the Microsoft ecosystem, that isn't necessarly a good goal.
- geodel 1y agoHuh, who is stopping person of great brilliance to launch their own companies and preserve culture forever? If there are no large companies with original culture after few decades of their founding it would just imply it is nature of things instead of being a particular person as chief executive.