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by happytoexplain 47 days ago
Regardless of the details of this speech, I believe Sundar Pichai is uncommonly out of touch with reality and with the nation of the United States of America, even among tech CEOs.

He should step down.

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Counterpoint, he is Google top CEO by stock percentage gain and possibly by management. Pichai successfully focused (can't say "pivoted" to AI because they've long been a/the leader) Google on AI (compare to Microsoft) and streamlined many of Google's redundant/fruitless efforts.
If he was so good why did Brin have to come out of retirement to steer the ship?

Remember, transformers were invented at Google. They could have been the first to market starving out OAI and Anthropic. That they did not is clearly a huge failure from Pichai. Its astonishing he wasn’t removed for this blunder.

Brin did not come out of retirement or steer the ship :-)

He probably came out of retirement because LLMs were showing promise to a life long dream.

He ruined Google, started by shattering the culture into a million pieces. He has negative charisma and no imagination. He was best as a mid level manager.
Top shareholders aren't concerned with "the culture."
Not to be crass buts it’s basically slave labor with free lunch
free lunch and hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in total compenasation.
They are notoriously stingy and underpay.
There's no such thing as "free lunch."
No chance. Have you seen the stock price lately?