Comment by bogwog
2 years ago
> Sundar's comments in the main video seem like he's trying to communicate "we've been doing this ai stuff since you (other AI companies) were little babies" - to me this comes off kind of badly
Reminds me of the Stadia reveal, where the first words out of his mouth were along the lines of "I'll admit, I'm not much of a gamer"
This dude needs a new speech writer.
This dude needs a new speech writer.
How about we go further and just state what everyone (other than Wall St) thinks: Google needs a new CEO.
One more interested in Google's supposed mission ("to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"), than in Google's stock price.
"The shareholders are too well-represented" is one of the complaints least likely to be acted on, second only to "I'm getting old."
At least the second one is very easy to act upon.
Sure, anti-capitalist-impulse Me 100% agrees.
It's just doubly icky in the context of Google's original "letter to shareholders": https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/business/letter-from-the-... ("Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one")
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CEOs rarely get replaced, they need to do something very very very bad for this to happen.
It's a publicly-traded company. Wall Street's basically the whole ball game.
I don’t know. Maybe a couple of months ago I would have agreed but Google is back baby.
Dude needs a new job. He's been the Steve Balmer of Google, ruining what made them great and running the company into the ground.
>Steve Balmer of Google
I've been making this exact comparison for years at this point.
Both inherited companies with market dominant core products in near monopoly positions. They both kept the lights on, but the companies under them repeatedly fail the break into new markets and suffer from a near total lack of coherent vision and perverse internal incentives that contribute to the failure of new products. And after a while, the quality of that core product starts to stumble as well.
The fact that we've seen this show before makes it all the more baffling to me that investors are happy about it. Especially when in the same timeframe we've seen Satya Nadella completely transform Microsoft and deliver relatively meteoric performance.
Balmer made Microsoft the most profitable it had ever been. He didn't grow them into big new areas, but he improved the focus, trimmed the costs, and vastly improved the bottom line. A successful company may need vision and expansion, but at some point it also needs to be able to actually convert that into profit, otherwise you turn into Sun - or indeed recent Google, who've come out with some great products but never managed to convert any of them into profit centers.
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I completely agree with Satya Nadella, I haven't seen a turnaround since Steve Jobs came back to Apple. He took a company that couldn't seem to get out of its way and turned it into an innovative, exciting, and insanely profitable company.
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I'd ask Gemini to find his replacement.
LOL. He'll need new job when Google board decide to fire him. So far it does not look like happening.
It's more like when Larry & Sergey and Eric decide to fire him. Because that's how Google was structured.
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>> This dude needs a new speech writer.
If only there was some technology that could help "generate" such text.