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Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package

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Re: Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package

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Pichai has been a terrible CEO, he almost lost the AI race before it started because he was too focused on Google’s consumer products. I was shocked they kept him around. He’s very much just a money manager like Tim Cook or Steve Ballmer. Those types are great in the short term but risk the entire company’s future long term

I'm surprised people still think this. Google has the strongest position of any company in the world on AI. They have expertise and capability across the entire stack from chips to data centers to fundamental research to frontier models. Just because they weren't first-to-market with a chatbot doesn't mean they almost lost or made some terrible durable blunder. That's about Google, though. The picture about Sundar sp…

People give him way too many breaks, he's a money manager. He was asleep at the wheel when OpenAI absolutely steamrolled them, even though they very easily could have won that race.

Re: Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package

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ya i could hire 500 min wage baseball players to replace ohtani then.

Isn't that the plot of Moneyball? You'll almost never find a single player with 30 stolen bases and 30 HR both, but you can find two players with 30 stolen bases and 30 HR alone for cheaper.

sure, and it doesn't work when everyone knows how to value stats that contribute to wins. Back then, they didn't do so equally. you could go bargain hunting and come out on top.
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