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Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant

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Re: Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant

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... And getting caught flat-footed against Microsoft (and Adobe, but but not as loudly) in the precise field Alphabet is supposedly the insurmountable leader. Remind me again how big-co CEOs assume "all the risk"?

This is true for small or medium sized private businesses; shareholder run, large corporations, not so much.

Re: Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant

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Under metrics of revenue and profit there is no reason to change the CEO:

Annual Revenue of Google from 2002 to 2022: https://www.statista.com/statistics/266206/googles-annual-gl...

Annual Net Income Generated by Google from 2001 to 2015: https://www.statista.com/statistics/266472/googles-net-incom...

Under metrics of leadership and fending competition there is no reason to keep the CEO:

"Killed by Google" - https://killedby.tech/google/

"Alphabet shares dive after Google AI chatbot Bard flubs answer in ad" - https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-ai-chatbot-bard-of...

"Google Cloud still operating at a loss despite revenue, client wins" - https://www.ciodive.com/news/google-cloud-revenue-Q2-2022/62...

Re: Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant

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post #7

... And getting caught flat-footed against Microsoft (and Adobe, but but not as loudly) in the precise field Alphabet is supposedly the insurmountable leader. Remind me again how big-co CEOs assume "all the risk"?

>Remind me again how big-co CEOs assume "all the risk"? That's a fairytale almost as preposterous as the tooth fairy.

When I was a kid I put a tooth under my pillow and I woke up to find a dollar bill.

That right there is more evidence for the tooth fairy than you’ll ever find in favor of CEOs assuming risk.

Re: Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant

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... And getting caught flat-footed against Microsoft (and Adobe, but but not as loudly) in the precise field Alphabet is supposedly the insurmountable leader. Remind me again how big-co CEOs assume "all the risk"?

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Re: Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant

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The (editorialised) title [0] is classic Anchoring [1], me thinks. Google did not fire folks because they were making losses. At some level, they got rid to appease Wall Street given their shrinking profit margins. I mean, here's a business that brings in revenues of £500M / day (over £150M / day net); an astonishing amount. Anchor against that? Never let the less spectacular get in the way of a click bait, I guess.…

Maybe google didn't fire them because things didn't go well, but still, having to fire people (instead of reallocating them to better-fitting positions or not hiring intge first place) is a management failure for me, in a scale which a CEO resigning(or at least lowering their income/bonuses) would be justified. But maybe this is just a difference in opinion.

Re: Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant

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post #18

CEO received compensation for good cost-cutting measures? What am I missing here?

CEO made bad decisions that many other companies avoided. CEO panicked and fired thousands unprofessionally. CEO received record compensation.
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