He's very thoughtful, though.

He got where he is by being diplomatic and not stepping on anyone's toes. No surprise he would continue behaving that way in the job.

Good at keeping the lights on but not so good at pushing the business forward.

With all due respect, push the business forward where? Google already won everything. They are on top right now. The irrational thing here is to get the size of Google and then try to promise investors growth when you should be promising dividends. The only place for Google to go is to stagnate or to go down. "Growth" is just going to get them a more serious antitrust action.

That goes for Amazon as well imo. They are another company that won about as much as anyone can but has refused to move past the startup mentality and irrational promises of growth. It's going to get them both burned.

Microsoft is the only company that has really handled this well but that's probably got something to do with them getting in antitrust trouble back in the day, when they were behaving much more like a Google or an Amazon.

I was about to give up on MSFT and sell back in the aughts. But then Nadella took over, and boy am I glad I didn't sell.

A friend of mine who worked at Microsoft in the 90s told me that Gates lamented in a meeting that nobody was coming up with new ideas on how to leverage their expertise and make money.

If only they knew !!!

He’d be a strong SVP managing a department of little consequence.

He's turned Google into Microsoft. The kinda CEO you get when you decide to sell out, stop innovating, and milk your captive audiences for all you can before it all explodes...