[nus07]

Sundar has Mckinsified and MBAfied Google.He faces intense spotlight because his background is McKinsey and Product Management . In core engineering and tech circles that’s the ultimate enemy and sell out. IMO Sundar hasn’t demonstrated the type of tech leadership like Satya or Zuck has. I am no fan of Zuck but he has a product he wants to pursue ( Metaverse) and is sticking to his guns to make it happen . Sundar just comes across as a pleasant McKinsey consultant who has seen ads and search as a cash cow and is focused on extracting as much cash from it to appeal to shareholders and others . There is no underlying tech vision or guts.

[subsubzero]

100% this. You do not want MBA types in your company, let alone running it! I couldn't think of a worse choice for leading Google, and it sounds like he is pulling that classic MBA trick where you are getting teams to work against each other instead of for a greater mission. No wonder nothing is shipping, projects are getting culled for no reason etc. I think google will be seeing a decline that may shock many if bing/chatGPT starts seeing wider adoption.

[smugma]

Apple and Microsoft both run by CEO’s with MBA’s, but you could argue that they are not “MBA types”, which is fair enough, but then we’re really talking about an straw man MBA.