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Google CEO Larry Page Says "Nothing Seriously Wrong"
After Larry Page bowed out from some public appearances, reader Pigskin-Referee writes with the news that "Google Inc Chief Executive Larry Page has reassured employees about his health, but the company on Friday shed little additional light on an unspecified condition affecting his voice that will sideline him from two high-profile events in the coming weeks. Page told employees in an email on Thursday that there was 'nothing seriously wrong with me,' according to a source who had seen an internal staff memo. The 39-year-old Google co-founder sat out his company's annual shareholders' meeting on Thursday because he had 'lost his voice,' according to Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, who informed attendees of the news at the start of the event."
Isn't that what Steve Jobs said in the beginning too?
Poor Larry Page stubs his toe and Slashdot has it as front page news.
What else 'matters' for fucks sake.
Don't tell me there isn't a serious mancrush going on here.
Just what's passed around the valley in the past few days.
"Oh. My. GOD. HE'S NOT IMMORTAL! He suffers minor illnesses like we do! THE COMPANY IS DOOMED! DOOMED! DOOOOOOOOOOMED! Somebody reassure us he's not dead already! HE'S BEEN DEAD ALL ALONG, HASN'T HE?!? Why do these terrible things have to happen to us? Whyyyyyyyyyyyy"
God, do I hate shareholders.
no voice means Page has been reduced to ... (puts on sunglasses) ... a paragraph!
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
He had some minor health issues, rumors to the contrary were just western propaganda and tabloid journalism.
Why can't the channel op voice him again?
Ezekiel 23:20
Lost his voice? That doesn't seem to make Hawking miss any meetings...
is that he is in charge of jumping the shark with google.
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
The suggestions that he wasn't really sick, or that perhaps he should be willing to be tracked by his new employee GPS locating thing in a vague hint that he wasn't in the hospital reminds me of some of the more outlandish stuff about Steve Jobs in the last years of his life.
He's just a guy, and sometimes people get sick. It doesn't spell doom and gloom, or a sudden change in fortune or prophetic suggestion about the company's fortunes. It just means the local chemist will sell a few more Lemsip boxes near his house.
I'm guessing he was actually at a strip club in which he was writing off as a "business meeting".
If that had happened, him being in the club enjoying the show would be all over youtub... uhh, never mind.
It's just a flesh wound.
Okay so he's got Laryngitis or something similar. Why the hell are people thinking this is news? I get Laryngitis from acid reflux from time to time, a couple of weeks Zantec usually clears it up, and I'm good for like the rest of the year.
I hate making Steve Jobs references, but I think news media is still hung up on mysterious health issues equaling pancreatic cancer or some similar terminal disease. Dude is unable to talk, and the company reports that it is not serious like most other health issues. For all we know the inability to speak is due to some contagious pathogen and he just wants to lay low so no one gets it, while he gets over it. I'm sure when Page was contemplating taking a leave of absence for a little spell, he didn't realize that he needed a press release to go along with it.
Of course there is the alternative theory could be that Page just had his meditation chamber installed and he's taking it for a spin. You know, if you're in that camp where Google is evil and all.
Solve p=np on a blackboard in an hour and you would be...
"A mind reader? That sounds like sci fi." "Honey, we live on a space ship"
Not a major Uh Oh ... yet. We do not know the details. In that regard perhaps neither Page, Google (other than the board) nor 'the Board' know the details because the Doctor does not yet know the details.
'The Case of the Missing Voice'
just a "Hormone imbalance"... nothing seriously wrong.
No, then he'd be good Will Hunting.
I'd have doubts if this statement came from almost any other CEO of a major company. But I believe Page.
But would you startup a search engine company to be Larry Page?
Billionaires get GREAT heath care
Worry about everyone else's health care.
Microsoft Dr. Manhattan
Darth Vader did most of his best work after he lost his voice. I mean, c'mon, his focus is on Doing Evil, not singing friggin' madrigals, let's not make too much of this...
And due dates always come fast !1 Ask Steve Jobs !!
If Larry can't speak, it's not big deal to send in Sergey or Eric Schmidt. That's an advantage to rule by triumvirate. No single leader is indispensable. That is in sharp contrast to Apple where Steve Jobs was believed to be the on true voice and visionary of the company.
You can take a page out of his life, but you can't take life out of Page.
My neighbor has cancer and I see what chemotherapy is doing to him every time we meet. You'll make it to the news when you have something serious, goddammed spoiled kid.
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Sundar Pichai is the utter asshole whose incompetence has resulted in the shutdown of Google's Atlanta office. Fuck you Sundar!
I'll eat your wife for free.
He just needs to stop smoking those $1000 bills.
Good point.. but still easy enough to parlay into bajillions (technical term) of dollars one would think.
"A mind reader? That sounds like sci fi." "Honey, we live on a space ship"
Always makes my throat sore.
Lemsip == Theraflu
(American english translation)
Hopefully it's throat cancer this time.
This sounds like a setup for a mediocre one liner:
"There is nothing seriously wrong with me, that a good _______ won't take care of"
Any suggestions . . . ? Google itself offered me this:
"there is nothing wrong with me that a little chocolate won't fix"
I am confident that Slashdotters are puerile enough to come up with something better.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Okay, starting again...
* Knowledge of accounting - yes, you need this no matter what industry you're in. You simply MUST understand capital versus expense, A/R and A/P, GAPP, ratios, asset depreciation, etc. Yes, you have a CFO - but you'd better know what they're talking about
* Knowledge of risk management.
* Extremely detailed and extremely broad knowledge of the industry you're in.
* Knowledge of the *market* of your industry
* Strong analytics
* Strong skills in prioritizing
* Ability to explain very technical aspects of your industry to the layman
* Strategic wisdom
* Be a motivator
* Know where to ask for answers if you don't have them
* Ability to keep your mouth shut when necessary (talking to politicians and lobbyists, for instance)
She's 300 pounds and never bathes. You're welcome to it.
A bad case of larrynpagitis?
The recently retold story is that Squad 80 was supposed to respond to the call for help from the security guard dude about the break-in in progress. If Squad 80 pulled up to the Watergate with flashing lights and uniformed cops got out, the lookouts in the Ho Jo's would have tipped off the burglers. Squad 80 was nowhere to be found because the officers, OK, not in a strip club, but they were in some bar. Dispatch had to send a trio of undercover cops in place of the "uniforms." The lookouts call the burgler's on walkie-talkie radios, "Um, guys, what are you wearing?" "Business suits, why?" "Um, some guys who look like hippies are at your location with drawn guns."
I'll eat your wife for free.
i'm not sure if he means cannibal-wise, or vagina-wise. Either way, no thanks!
First Jobs kicks the bucket and now Page has to. Do they have no shame?
It's the Steve Jobs / Randy Pausch ("Last Lecture") effect. Relatively young, highly successful computing type suddenly laid low by pancreatic cancer. Folks can't help but speculate.
Jobs is dead! Long live the Jobs!
I'm sick of these stories, proliferating everywhere these days in the tech press and the broader press, that pass off trivial bullshit about businesses' chief greedheads (and in some cases even VPs or directors) as interesting or important information. Larry can't speak and missed an appearance! Sergey was spotted on a yacht in the South Pacific!!! Did Fuckerberg have a pre-nup or not????
Get a fucking life, everyone. The billionaires surely don't give a shit about you getting ill or dying. In fact, they generally do everything they can to make the world's powerless less healthy and wealthy while making themselves more so. What happened during your development, that caused you to be sycophantically attuned to the adventures and travails of the 1%?
Let's face it, when famous rich people "publically disapear" for a few weeks because of an "unspoken medical malady" but still have their regular e-presence, they've most likely "had work done."
Just wait three weeks and then tell him "it looks so natural, and your eyes don't look permanently surprised at all dude" when you see him next. 8-)
That or the problem is "unspeakable" for being trivially "yuchy", like a ruptured hemiroid.
It's really pointless to debate it all, as both serious and trivial/embarrassing malidies are bad for stock prices.
So even if its an emergency partial orchidectomy due to a newly realized mass, or its disasterously failed hair plugs, just pretend its a nose job being hidden. That's best for the economy no matter what.
Innocent people shouldn't be forced to pay for inferior software development.
--"Code Complete" Microsoft Press
Everything would be different, after all, the Magic 8-Ball has always known... Outlook not so good...
Innocent people shouldn't be forced to pay for inferior software development.
--"Code Complete" Microsoft Press
America is the land of the Chosen People (aka the Megarich) - the poor die because they are useless and God wants them to die! Only the megarich may live in America.
Killin' the poor and shootin' shit is what the gobbuernmint allows us to call do. It's called Freedumbkilling(tm) Picture millions of waving Swastika's, er, American Flags as the Freedumbkilling(tm) goes on!
Fuck off and die, anonymous evil asswipe - God will send you to hell to fry for eternity, where you belong.
Freedumbkilling(tm)! Freedumbkilling(tm)! Freedumbkilling(tm)!
Time for some cannabis oil Larry... :P
That's what happens to your throat when you eat Ice Cream Sandwich too much! Together with Frozen Yogurt!
Whenever they say it's not serious, it's cancer.
not singing friggin' madrigals
For this, you win the Internets.
Baseless self confidence kills more people each year than bathtubs.
" when famous rich people "publically disapear" for a few weeks because of an "unspoken medical malady" but still have their regular e-presence, they've most likely "had work done ".
Not necessarily. Many famous people employ a Ghostwriter to keep up with their Twitter / Facebook / Personal web blog / etc.
50 cent is well known for doing this. Britney Spears was also, although she now has it to where when others update Her social pages, they sign their own names so fans know who wrote the tweet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/technology/internet/27twitter.html
http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/2009/apr/010409-Hollywood-Celebrities-hiring-ghost-writers-Twitter-social-networking-craze-Britney-Spears.htm
http://anamikas.hubpages.com/hub/Making-Money-Online-Celebrity-Ghost-Blogger-Writer-Corporate-Company-Blogging-Writing
So, the celeb could be in the hospital or rehab, Or jail, and not be online at all in person, but their ghostwriter could still be responding to fans via social media. just FYI.