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Google Ventures CEO and Founder Bill Maris Is Leaving (recode.net)
According to a report from Recode, the founder and CEO of Google Ventures (GV), Bill Maris, is leaving the firm and its parent company, Alphabet. Recode reports: "Sources say Maris is being replaced by David Krane, a managing partner for the venture arm and one of the earliest corporate communications managers at Google. Maris, an early web entrepreneur, founded Google's venture capital arm in 2009 and quickly built it into a formidable presence in Silicon Valley. In 2015, the firm managed upwards of $2.4 billion in capital. Although GV cut back on investments in Europe and with early stage companies, the firm is still willing to cut checks. For the first six months of this year, it passed Intel Capital as the most active corporate venture arm, according to CB Insights. Under Maris, GV has had some high-profile misses -- most notably, the disastrous app Secret. But those were outweighed by early bets in gigantic startups like Uber, Nest, Slack and Jet.com, which just went to Walmart for $3 billion. Lately, GV has upped its investment in startups working on health and biotech, a strong interest of Maris's." Recode followed up with Maris in a separate report and asked him several questions. When asked why he is leaving, Maris said, "I'm leaving because everything is great."
so, google, first not be evil, then becomes the most evil by tracking all users and finally becomes another big corporation like others. Tired of google and the people thinking they are great... not anymore.
It means I'm announcing that I made the first post in an article. A long time ago, Slashdot wouldn't allow the text "first post" to be the entire subject or comment. Instead, trolls like me would instead post things like 'frist psot', 'frosty piss', or simply 'fp' in order to achieve the same result while circumventing the lameness filter. That was removed from the lameness filter with Slash 2.0, but the text 'fp' is still generally understood to be an abbreviation for 'first post'.
Hmm... Replaced by a PR flack. That'll go down we'll.
Google executives leaving in key project areas of late? Wonder why?
Walmart spending $3 billion for it was a success, but it could also be seen as a disappointment because they probably were hoping it could eventually emerge as a serious challenge to Amazon and be sold for 10-20x that.
Rich executive is getting older and realizes that you can't take money to the grave, so he is investing in biotech in hopes it makes him live longer. Sorry buddy, it won't help.
... especially if you are searching for Linux stuff.
You know, just to piss them off.