[birdyrooster]

First was the elimination of TGIF, a weekly meeting where Larry and Sergei would come out in the flesh and answer some of the most politically sensitive questions you could imagine right there at 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, second was the rule of CFO Ruth Porat who eliminated many bets and turned Google into a lean mean ad selling machine. Sundar Pichai seemed too distant or disinterested to fully engage with Googlers or fight for their interests. For example, his first order of business was to take over one of the three buildings off Charleston and make it off limits to mere mortals. Maybe that is good for share holders, but it wasn't the Google I ever signed up for.

[EMIRELADERO]

As a general rule of thumb, any publicly-traded company of sufficient size becomes beholden to shareholders and shareholders only, out of necessity.

That's why I inmediately grow suspicious of any mid-to-large sized enterprise that goes public. They all deserve to be looked at with wary eyes.