[nostromo]

> Larry and Sundar have the personality and motivational skills of limp noodles

And yet they were still more motivating than Sundar, who is so flat he sounds like he's bored to death, even when he's talking about super cool tech like AI and quantum computing.

Page wasn't polished, but he could energize teams about building the future in a way Sundar hasn't been able to.

[dekhn]

I think you misread- Sergey has lots of personality and motivational skill (he's a brilliant natural leader with an amazing sense of humor). The main problem with Sergey (told to me by several SVPs) is that he's so smart (but not wise) , 10 minutes into your well-prepared presentation he'll ask "well, why didn't you do it this other way? It's faster and simpler?". This will cause your presentation to halt, you have to waste a bunch of time epxlaning why that is a cool academic idea that won't actually work in the real world, and then everybody on the team is amotivated.