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Why Eric Schmidt Left As CEO of Google?
Edsj writes "According to The New Yorker: 'Schmidt, according to associates, lost some energy and focus after losing the China decision. At the same time, Google was becoming defensive. All of their social-network efforts had faltered. Facebook had replaced them as the hot tech company, the place vital engineers wanted to work. Complaints about Google bureaucracy intensified. Governments around the world were lobbing grenades at Google over privacy, copyright, and size issues. The “don’t be evil” brand was getting tarnished, and the founders were restive. Schmidt started to think of departing. Nudged by a board-member friend and an outside adviser that he had to re-energize himself, he decided after Labor Day that he could reboot. He couldn't.'"
You're killing me. The CEO of one of the most well known companies in the world steps down because he doesn't like the company motto and the new man at the top upholds "don't be evil". Hilarious. How do you come up with this stuff?
By that logic everyone is pro-evil.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
As far as I know the share structure of Google gives enough voting rights to the founders to retain absolute control even with a minority of the shares.
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The reason google is looked upon by people as a great company and why every software guy wants to work there is their "don't be evil" policy! google gives ni ads to promote itself, yet it continues to be the most admired companies of our times! i think the decision for uncensored searches was awesome, and the fact that these guys don't give a shit about corporate bullshit is even awesomer!
A CEO getting butthurt over not following something in their company core values shouldn't be running that company. Not everything can be easily quantifiable by dollars and cents, but you can bet your ass that that corporate philosophy has made them money over the years. Schmidt is short sighted.
Because everybody is a corporation?(!)
Corporation as a construct are intended to behave in psychopathic manors. Most people on the other hands are not psychopaths,
Follow up: SELL YOUR FUCKING STOCK ASAP WITH THE RETURN OF THE BUSINESS GUYS AT APPLE!
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I viewed the China censorship affair as a large corporation ignores a country's laws because it was powerful enough to be above the government.
I don't think that's a force for good at all, I think that it sets a very dangerous precedent.
10 years as CEO of a Fortune 500 company isn't a bad record. The average is 6.5 years. Schmidt leaves with Google much larger than when he started, profitable, and in good condition. He's done far better than the CEOs of most of the Fortune 500 in the last decade.
Schmidt, and most of the upper portion of Google management is evil. However, Google is not alone in its desire to own the world of information. Apple, M$, the US Gov, other governments... The real issue is where Schmidt and others like him will land when their time on this planet is over.
I don't think Schmidt would become CEO of Apple. It would be hard for Apple to replace Jobs. Though Jobs was never technical, there were a few characteristics about Jobs made Apple was it is today. (1) The demand of perfection. Jobs is maniacal about perfection in Apple products. To be fair, Jobs is probably an asshole in real life as many stories suggest, but he has always expected that Apple build really good products. I don't see that desire from Schmidt. (2) Clear vision and strategy. I don't know whether it is his ideas or his staff that formulates the strategy, but Apple has been right more than they've has been wrong about the direction of technology. If we look back here on slashdot, many of the moves Apple made were ridiculed when first announced but seem as brilliant in hindsight (retail stores, music store, etc). I don't see Schmidt as someone who has that vision. At best he's good at managing people.
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Sigh. Not this shit again. Is China the evil villain now? I wasn't paying attention to Faux News. I am still at EyeRaan as the Axis of Evil chapter. In my non-American view, the US is the short, medium and long term threat to freedom in the world. The last global economic meltdown originated from there. The most Draconian laws (copyright, intellectual property laws, RIAA etc.) emanates from America. America can and did invade any country it likes on any pretense and get away with it. It can kidnap, imprison without trial and torture anyone regardless of nationality and get away with it. It has nuclear, chemical and biological weapon stockpiles that at any moment could fall into the hands of Sarah Palins and their ilk. It has mercenary fanatical soldiers who will carry out any order, even shooting civilians in cold blood. And worst of all, Americans still believe that they are the good guys. This belief is what scares me. Historically, China on the other hand had not much interest in the outside world other than the buffer zones around it. China want to become a world player but from what I have seen, it does not want to become the world police, judge and executioner.
They, to paraphrase, "lose some energy and focus" when they do not get their way. Interesting way to put that.
That really describes everyone. I often "lose some energy and focus" when my boss tells me to change the way I am tackling a problem, because he doesn't think the same way I do.
My sister opened a computer store in Hawaii. She sells C shells by the seashore.
I'm not hating at all. You're swallowing the kool-aid of an enormous post-clash push to give the public the concept that Schmidt's departure as CEO is a good thing.
Larry Page has little identity, where Schmidt was the 'face' of most of Google's public posture. Schmidt is gone, and now we're being fed stories about what he should do, how cool his stripes are, a few stories about his $200M yacht (just so that we know he can do Paul Allen stuff) and so on.
Every time Google's stock price drops, there are lots of institutional investors that look at that, and ponder whether to leave or not. Jobs leaving when he did, was bolstered by what Hunter Thompson would call, KING HELL EARNINGS REPORT so as to buoy Apple's stock. This is ALL ABOUT keeping that stock price hopping, and doing damage control. There's no hate in what I say, rather the observation of the facts.
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"there wasn't enough food to go around" there still not enough, don't believe me as you local food bank volunteer.
sure there is. It's just not getting around before it goes bad or is destroyed. Thanks for helping make sure it gets distributed.
Efficiency often has a moral trade off. Why have 5 men do the work if it can be done by one robot? The robot will save money and be more efficient at the expense of giving 5 people work. If the company decided not to be efficient it would shortly fail to be competitive.
It would be vastly more efficient for me to shoot my neighbor and take his food, than have to go to work every day to earn my food. It would be vastly advantageous to me to run around raping women, than having to spend the time and resources to woo one in the traditional way.
These are sociopathic statements, when stated by an individual, but are valid corporate logic. It is more efficient to lay off 90% of my workforce, than to pay them a living wage. It is more advantageous to screw over 3rd world countries to sell fruit or designer water to American and Europeans, than it would be to have an ethical policy and treat people fairly.
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