This year’s Founders' Letter

Re:This year’s Founders' Letter by educar on Thursday April 28, 2016 @07:56PM (#11592793)

What is pichai's claim to fame? It's very hard to figure out what exactly he has done to suddenly rise up to the top. Just a very likable person? I am yet to see anything visionary from him.

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Re:This year’s Founders' Letter by sievebrain on Friday April 29, 2016 @10:06AM (#11595773)

Being a competent manager. Sort of like Tim Cook. He managed Chrome well, and then Chrome and Android, and now Google as a whole.

Visionaries are quite rare and unfortunately sometimes their visions aren't actually that great. See: VicG and Google+. Vic was a visionary who had unconditional support from the top, but in the end it wasn't enough to have a big impact.

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Re:This year’s Founders' Letter by btian on Friday April 29, 2016 @01:46AM (#11593955)

I think Google Toolbar was his idea.

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Re:This year’s Founders' Letter by apsec112 on Friday April 29, 2016 @03:31AM (#11594281)

Per Wikipedia, Toolbar was launched in 2000 but Pichai joined in 2004.

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