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This dude needs a new speech writer.

How about we go further and just state what everyone (other than Wall St) thinks: Google needs a new CEO.

One more interested in Google's supposed mission ("to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"), than in Google's stock price.



"The shareholders are too well-represented" is one of the complaints least likely to be acted on, second only to "I'm getting old."


At least the second one is very easy to act upon.


Sure, anti-capitalist-impulse Me 100% agrees.

It's just doubly icky in the context of Google's original "letter to shareholders": https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/business/letter-from-the-... ("Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one")


Haha that’s a great find. Google may be one of the most conventional companies out there now.


To some extent that's because conventional tech companies became Google.


"One of the most conventional companies" sounds like some kind of paradox.


They are still not a conventional company, in the manner of intentionally shutting down support avenues to paying customers even.


Kinda like kids who claimed to become Rocket scientists when grow up. But now flipping burgers at McDonald's. Big liars living among us.


I resemble that remark!

Ok, well, maybe not burgers


Do you flip user stories too?


Flipping kanban cards. ):-|


"What is my purpose?"


Mr Meeseeks with extra steps.


CEOs rarely get replaced, they need to do something very very very bad for this to happen.


It's a publicly-traded company. Wall Street's basically the whole ball game.


I don’t know. Maybe a couple of months ago I would have agreed but Google is back baby.




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