App founder quits Google, says company doesn’t serve users anymore(arstechnica.com)
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App founder quits Google, says company doesn’t serve users anymore
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/app-founder-quits-google-says-company-doesnt-serve-users-anymore/
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Pinchai has been the most lack luster CEO for Google. He has no energy, and feels like a puppet.
While I no doubt believe these things are true, these are interesting stances coming from people knowingly selling their companies to Google, who has had this reputation for a while. Did these CEOs have users front of mind?
It's not blame because I'm not sure I could turn down retire-in-three-years money, but it is a choice they made for their users.
It's not blame because I'm not sure I could turn down retire-in-three-years money, but it is a choice they made for their users.
I assume this was a rhetorical question, because I, at least, assume that most CEOs care for their users extends only to the point that they can monetize them. Which means it stops dead when the company is sold.
> Seshadri left Google the second his "three year mandatory retention period" was up
What is a mandatory retention period? Sounds like a stock vesting schedule to me.
What is a mandatory retention period? Sounds like a stock vesting schedule to me.
They sold their company to Google. Acquisitions like that typically come with special terms for large shareholders of the company being acquired.
Funny how customers disliked this person.
Did they have a perception that in 2020 Google was serving their users, or they believed it all along, but took the payday anyways?
Google has supported its primary users for years - those users are the people paying them to run ads. I haven't seen or heard anything about google making it harder to pay them to display ads.
Google does not care about the users of their services?
That's weird, how could this be? That's weird.