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funny: ok. charismatic: this is too much!
He had this weird manic energy.
Yeah, he was maniac for sure.
Google cites 'durable cost savings' as CEO Sundar Pichai warns of more layoffs
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Re: Google cites 'durable cost savings' as CEO Sundar Pichai warns of more layoffs
#122Sundar 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…
> I guess the pandemic money explosion made it easy for him to show big returns.
From the time Sundar became CEO to the start of covid Google stock was up 100%. From the start of covid to now Google stock is up 100%
> Search sucks.
Still the best.
> Gemini a year behind (despite google inventing transformers).
A fumble for sure, but all indications Google has massively reoriented toward AI in every product.
> Canceling products left and right leaving no consumer faith in new offerings.
Only HN weirdos like us care about this. Hard to think of a single cancellation that made mainstream headlines.
> Internal power groups crippling anything that isn't deemed sufficiently DEI compliant.
Could anyone give anonymous examples of this? Could the recent waves of layoffs stop this if it was happening?