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by luckydata 715 days ago
Eric would probably not want to talk about how Google's leadership of which he hired at least a good half under his tenure is responsible for squandering an amazing technological and brand leadership that is now being threatened from every angle. His leadership led to the current situation, the leadership of Larry and then Sundar just continued the culture he put in place. He's simply trying to get people to focus on others because god forbid we question the work HE did as CEO.
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Google in comparison to say an Apple or Amazon just never had product focussed or customer-focussed leadership. Contrast Sergey/Larry/Eric vs Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos.

Sergey & Larry had a fun research project that could make a lot of money, then moved on to other things that were fun for them.

Eric was the hired adult supervision and probably most responsible for the org structure they ended up with.

The origin, leadership and structure of Google has far more to do with its products than where its devs sit.