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Sundar 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 compan
by ocdtrekkie 1y ago
Sundar 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.