Re:More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision
by artificial on Saturday February 02, 2019 @11:43AM
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Thank you for your clear critique, would you mind clarifying the Google leapfrogged by MS statement? I don’t keep close tabs on Azure.
Re:More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision
by jillesvangurp on Saturday February 02, 2019 @03:41PM
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There have been a bunch of reports citing MS as being second in terms of market share and growing nicely (hence the MS valuations going up), for cloud based deployments rather than third after Google. That's a failure of Google to beat Amazon and not to get beaten by someone else. That happened on Pichar's watch. That's just a small part of Google's business and a huge part of Amazon's business. Puts the whole ads are all there is point of view a bit in in perspective. They are all ballpark in the trillion dollar valuation range so I think the comparison is fair.
Re:More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision
by petra on Saturday February 02, 2019 @04:57PM
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Google has been doing not so well in cloud for a very long time, long before Pichai became CEO.
And Microsoft has got some very unique strengths when it comes to Enterprise IT and developer tools.
A CTO's role is to provide clarity internally and externally on what a company is doing technically. In absence of a CTO, that role is for the CEO. Pichar is not enough of a credible leader on this front.
E.g. Steve Jobs was a clear visionary leader. Bill Gates was a clear technical founder CEO. They did not need CTOs. Amazon has an effective business oriented CEO that defers to a very strong CTO (Werner Vogels) for technical things.
AWS is no accident; that requires technical leadership (Vogels) and long term strategic thinking (Bezos). Google just got leapfrogged by MS in the same space. I'd argue lack of leadership is a big reason.