Re:Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
by Frost1x on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @06:35PM
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I've seen this explanation multiple times in this thread, but I find it incredibly hard to believe Alphabet was created to shift Sergey and Larry's time away from Google. It seems like there are far easier (and cheaper) ways of accomplishing this without creating a conglomerate.
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Re:Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
by johannes1234321 on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @06:53PM
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Well, what they did is install a "CEO" for the main business, so they weren't operationally involved in that part of the business anymore and focused on different side businesses. Now the crown prince takes over everything operationally and the founders move to the board ... No idea if that was the primary plan, but certainly one of the options considered back then.