The whole thing reads like it was written by a PR person.
Because it was lol.
Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sundar became CEO in 2004. Google didn't start becoming evil in, I would say, 2008 or 2009.
Sundar joined Google in 2004. He didn't become CEO until 2015, when Eric Schmidt stepped down.
Eric Schmidt had step down long before that, and Larry Page was the CEO. In 2015, Alphabet was formed and Page became the CEO of Alphabet, leaving Sundar as the CEO of Google.
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#54"We could not have imagined, back in 1998 when we moved our servers from a dorm room to a garage, the journey that would follow."
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#55> Nonetheless, Google’s core service—providing unbiased, accurate, and free access to information—remains at the heart of the company. How is it ok to just say clear lies like this?! Without making any value judgements at all this is blatantly false. The ranking algorithms specifically encode a bias into search results. This is actually explicitly what users want, too! To be clear this is distressing to me because ve…
> I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in "reality." And reality has a well-known liberal bias
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#56Google has done some things well, but some things very poorly. First, fire whoever decided to prevent syncing Google Photos to Drive and not having a compatible Photos API for syncing original backups.
Next, invest in and add features to Google Music or stop charging for it.
Last, Google News sucks. No matter how much I dislike content it keeps showing me more of the same. Reminds me of YouTube. People should get heated on Google curating propaganda.
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#57The whole thing reads like it was written by a PR person.
This is exactly the type of thing you have PR people on staff to write though?
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#58Larry and Sergey are cutting the cord. They gave birth to a star company and it now owns most of the Internet's information. We are already seeing a backlash against the major internet juggernauts like Facebook, Google and Twitter and it will only continue as their dubious behaviours are unearthed.
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#60Absolutely nothing about the structural discontent emerging in staff. And nothing about the increasing sense of a loss of claimed ethical stance. I stress claimed, because the lack of concern at the top at its obvious demise makes it less likely it was actually held as a core belief.
Unless it there is more behind the scenes, the letter is basically saying: We don't want to deal, or like/enjoy dealing with this pesky employee stuff. We don't have the time, energy, or enjoy it, and they'd rather do something else with their time and money. They are in a position where they either crack-down on their culture to more of a corp like, and appear to go full evil, or be even more lenient, and risk small…
I think that's a cynical view of the situation. These guys have grown a college startup into one of the world's most valuable companies. They're rich beyond imagination. More importantly, they're getting close to being 50. Would you want a day job if you could retire 15 years earlier than most, especially considering Google has served as a vehicle to explore a ton of other projects they've been interested in (since maybe people would think, why not start another company?).
Makes total sense, I'm sure they're looking forward to spending time on their yachts with their families and not in meetings 8 hours a day.