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Re:CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alph... by cudgy on Sunday August 06, 2023 @03:57AM (#37019860)
Any moron knew it was time to invest in da Cloud once AWS was successful. I’d expect more interesting ideas than the old tried and true “get some lucrative government and enterprise contracts”, “guess we better dust off our AI tech and react to OpenAI”, etc. He seems to be a reactionary not a visionary.
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Re:CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alph... by ztrww on Monday August 07, 2023 @07:00AM (#37032828)
> Any moron knew it was time to invest in da Cloud once AWS was successful.

Yet Google doesn’t seem to be doing all that well at all in this area. At least relatively…

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Re:CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alph... by cudgy on Monday August 07, 2023 @08:10PM (#37042733)
Yes, he was late and executed poorly. Generally Google is operationally deficient, but technically rich. That is a management problem. The best thing for Google is to split up into parts so they can become more focused and lean within each business category: social media, ads, search, cloud services, etc
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