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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by sheepscreek on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:51PM (#35295283)
He’s not a bad CEO. Just not an innovative one. I don’t think it’s an easy job even keeping the Google ship sailing, leave alone the rest of Alphabet (which Sundar is also the CEO of).

I often think of his time at Google as Ballmer’s time at Microsoft. Not unsuccessful, business grew manifold. But not pushing the bar. Nothing to keep the competitors on their toes. Like Apple did with Apple Silicon.

I heard this somewhere: you have leaders for peacetime, and leaders for wartime. They are seldom the same people.

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by michaelt on Friday March 24, 2023 @06:08PM (#35296332)
> I don’t think it’s an easy job even keeping the Google ship sailing

Not sure I agree. It's easy to be captain of a ship when you're on a familiar route and there aren't any icebergs to dodge. Just let the crew get on with doing what they always do.

It's only when you have to dodge icebergs that you need to start making difficult decisions under pressure and coordinating subordinates.

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