[xnx]

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.

[pm90]

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.

[jpadkins]

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.

[pm90]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452641