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by SirensOfTitan 880 days ago
Sundar stands so far away from any of the others--he has done immense harm to Google and continues to do so:

* Few of Google's products are good anymore, new players like Kagi and Perplexity are providing high quality search with tiny teams (and Kagi is increasingly doing this against its own search corpus)

* Google dropped the ball on AI despite producing a large plurality of the exciting contemporary research. I'm honestly unconvinced that Google has the capacity to launch new successful products anymore, they cannot think long term at all and kill new products if they don't immediately look successful.

* Google's current layoffs are atrocious, and they're doing considerable harm to their brand amongst technical staff--laying off loyal employees in the middle of the night with an email in waves is positively sociopathic.

The tier list is something like:

Worst: Sundar

Bad: Elon Jassy

Fine: Cook

Good: Greg Peters Zuck

Great: Satya