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Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by JohnFen »

Frost1x wrote: post #186
darksaints wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cashing out before the antitrust suits start to hit.

I'm not sure how long these sort of antitrust cases take to litigate (I was young during Microsoft's high profile case), but I'd say this is one of the most rational explanations as to why, seemingly out of nowhere, they'd parachute away together. It looks like an attempt to try to distance themselves, their personal images, and their assets before it gets too ugly. I would certainly do so unless my personal financia…

> I'm not sure how long these sort of antitrust cases take to litigate

They typically take years, often over a decade. I'm talking about the entire process, not just the litigation (which is the easiest and fastest part). With Microsoft, it took 19 years from start to end.

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by lonelappde »

m0zg wrote: post #229
ohazi wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Google's market cap has approximately doubled while Sundar has been the CEO. Microsoft grew similarly under Ballmer, despite losing a lot of their strategic advantages and missing the boat in a handful of important ways.

I can name only one: mobile. OTOH Ballmer spearheaded Azure and Office/Exchange as a service, both of which are the major reasons why MS is a trillion-dollar company on an upswing today. No amount of Satya would save it, if Ballmer didn't beat the internal Microsoft "deep state" into submission on Azure and SaaS first. And a serious beatdown was required before Office and Windows apparatchiks received the message.

Ballmer tried to save Microsoft by killing the Internet, creating the opening for Google to become the industry leader

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Post by lkbm »

joemi wrote: post #257
Wonnk13 wrote: post #39

This has to be a green light for TK to take Cloud and really run with it. There's no way Sundar can give as much attention to Google and all the other bets simultaneously. Curious what side projects of Larry and Sergey get turned down now.

Who or what is TK? It's proving hard to google decisively for a relevant meaning.

Thomas Kurian is the CEO of Google Cloud.

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by v64 »

joemi wrote: post #257
Wonnk13 wrote: post #39

This has to be a green light for TK to take Cloud and really run with it. There's no way Sundar can give as much attention to Google and all the other bets simultaneously. Curious what side projects of Larry and Sergey get turned down now.

Who or what is TK? It's proving hard to google decisively for a relevant meaning.

Thomas Kurian [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kurian

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by avocado4 »

option wrote: post #214
lawrenceyan wrote: post #205

A well deserved congratulations to Sundar's promotion! Larry and Sergey have spent the majority of their time on Other Bets for quite some time now, and it's good to see that this is finally being solidified / recognized within Alphabet's management structure.

Can someone please explain why it is well deserved? For example, when I was at MSFT it was very clear why Satya deserved to be the next CEO - for leading and growing the cloud business from irrelevance to a major pillar of MSFT. What about Sundar? Is this all because he led Chrome?

> Can someone please explain why it is well deserved?'

GOOG went from 550 to 1300 under Sundar's term as CEO.

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by seppel »

aazaa wrote: post #20

Buried in a paragraph 2/3 of the way down: > ... Going forward, Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet. ... Not knowing the internals of Google, it seems as if this is the announcement that Page and Brin are stepping down. Is this correct? If so, what an incredibly subtle way to announce a high-profile pair of resignations.

The funny thing is: If you are used to coporate speech, then immediately after you read the headline "A letter from Larry and Sergey" you know that there is a resignation coming up.

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Post by yoz-y »

tehlike wrote: post #241
jm4 wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t get it either. Google’s reputation has been lousy, there’s something weird going on among employees and the company isn’t clearly advancing in any particular area. Sundar strikes me as Google’s Ballmer. Satya, on the other hand, has been outstanding. Microsoft has transformed and looks like a company that will be dominant for at least another 20 years.

Google would be lucky if sundar was ballmer. Ballmer doesnt get enough credit for pivoting msft into enterprise...

Pivoting into entreprise from what? Microsoft always targeted entreprise first.

Re: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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Post by johannes1234321 »

Frost1x wrote: post #252
johannes1234321 wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of nowhere? - They created Alphabet to pull themselves out of daily Google business.

I've seen this explanation multiple times in this thread, but I find it incredibly hard to believe Alphabet was created to shift Sergey and Larry's time away from Google. It seems like there are far easier (and cheaper) ways of accomplishing this without creating a conglomerate.

Well, what they did is install a "CEO" for the main business, so they weren't operationally involved in that part of the business anymore and focused on different side businesses. Now the crown prince takes over everything operationally and the founders move to the board ... No idea if that was the primary plan, but certainly one of the options considered back then.
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