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0 pointscmrdporcupine2y ago0 comments

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.

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whatshisface2y ago

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

desdenova2y ago

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

cmrdporcupineOP2y ago

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")

avarun2y ago

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

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geodel2y ago

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

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epolanski2y ago

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

mfrc2y ago

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

huytersd2y ago

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

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