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by keeda 37 days ago
At least from the outside TK seems to be doing well given GCP's growth. My completely uninformed assessment is that he stepped in as the disciplined adult in the room to override Google's otherwise lackadaisical approach to enterprise. (Clearly still some ways to go, as this incident shows.) Now, that may have created a culture that is at odds with the rest of Google, but it was probably required to become a "serious" enterprise org.

That said, did OCI, being an Oracle division, have a culture worth destroying? On the other hand, I could see TK importing that culture into Google...
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Twirrim 36 days ago
I've been part of OCI for 10 years now. TK did nothing to the culture in OCI. Virtually everything that OCI was and has become has come from its own leadership (tone very strongly set by both Don and Clay, in their own ways). Mostly we lost that initial scrappiness of "do it now, ask for forgiveness afterwards" that is inevitable when you shift from a business with no customers, to one with a large and growing customer base. You can't exactly just fling stuff to production and see what happens any more.

opinion my own, yada yada yada.

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shwetanshu21 36 days ago
I think GCP has been giving out lucrative contracts with lots of discounts and credits which has led to this growth. I've seen many companies jump the ship cause they got 100/200k 2/3 year credits which is a lot for many of them at that stage. They also have their partners migrate them at their own expense. So it is essentially free money for those companies. I know a prominent entertainment content provider who went from AWS to Azure and then from Azure to GCP just because of this in 6-7 year. Plus the GPU hunt nowadays along with everyone producing code has definetely helped every cloud provider and even dedicated server providers/VPS (most of them dont have cheap options availaible). So how much of the growth has been organic vs TK led, hard to know.

If I think about it you might be right though some of this comes from Google's disdain for its customers be it hardware/software/cloud. So it is kinda inherited. One of the main reasons most good cloud consultants ask their clients to stay away from GCP is because of their depreciation policy. Plus stuff like this has been common in GCP.

So TK brought it to fix it instead of fixing it has brought the toxic OCI culture too which in the end brings them down even more.

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