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Can anyone name one thing of value this dude has actually done in his time in charge. Feel in a few years he's gonna have a worse reputation than Ballmer in terms of squandering potential.
growing chrome from nothing to monopoly-level browser?
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/net-... Nearly $20B in profit in a quarter? Good time for layoffs.
that's irrelevant they overhired and now they are fixing it, and that profit margin will rise with the reduction in compensation they're firing because they can
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/net-... Nearly $20B in profit in a quarter? Good time for layoffs.
Profit doesn't mean you invested in hiring for the right things in the right departments, especially with as much shift in the overall market as we've seen in the last year.
Nor does sitting on thumbs for years and missing the AI revolution, right after inventing it.
Sundar should have been let go years ago, but I guess the pandemic money explosion made it easy for him to show big returns. But look between the margins and it's clear google is rotting on the inside. Search sucks. Gemini a year behind (despite google inventing transformers). Canceling products left and right leaving no consumer faith in new offerings. Cloud platform being an absolute terrible experience, even if yo…
Most of the dysfunction within Google comes from management trying to manipulate a finance department that is not-very-bright to loosen their purse strings for their pet projects. There's a lot of "That Slides presentation seems pretty promising, here's another $250M for you" and not a whole lot of understanding of how to build an enduring product.
Sundar should have been let go years ago, but I guess the pandemic money explosion made it easy for him to show big returns. But look between the margins and it's clear google is rotting on the inside. Search sucks. Gemini a year behind (despite google inventing transformers). Canceling products left and right leaving no consumer faith in new offerings. Cloud platform being an absolute terrible experience, even if yo…
It has reduced my time spent on Google Search or watching long youtube videos (which is where most of their Ad revenue comes from). Not sure if thats already showing up in quarterly results but it's a hard job keeping those numbers up while this big transition is happening. Doesn't matter who the CEO is.
Can anyone name one thing of value this dude has actually done in his time in charge. Feel in a few years he's gonna have a worse reputation than Ballmer in terms of squandering potential.
growing chrome from nothing to monopoly-level browser?
I think this is just expected. Google hired way too many people during the pandemic. Really a question of why they thought that was a good idea. They added like 70k employees in about 4 years. For what?
Google is still valued as a growth company. They need to hire everyone they can to build new profitable things.
Google is still a juggernaut BUT... I don't think anyone here would claim competitor's "AI" isn't going to take a chunk of their search market, would they? Search quality was diminishing for the past few years as it is, but there was no real alternative. Now I'm using ChatGPT as much (or more) than Google. Almost everything about Google Search is mediocre.