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Google's Executive Suite Declared an Asshole-Free Zone

posted by cmn32480 on Monday October 26 2015, @04:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the wish-this-was-my-office dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

As the saying goes, opinions are like assholes; everyone has one. But not Google's executive suite these days. When Google restructured itself as the "Alphabet" holding company, the visionary IoT and science projects were moved out of Google division, and Indian-born Sundar Pichai was named CEO of the core Google company which handles search, Android, YouTube, and all the other high-volume IT stuff. And that's a good thing, according to a couple ex-Googlers interviewed by Re/code: "All the assholes have left" ; Pichai apparently has a rare blend of hard and soft skills.

At Google, this guy has moved upstairs. And apparently having a CEO who was a brilliant entrepreneur but also a complete jerk was hardly unique to Google, Steve Jobs being the canonical example among tech CEOs. We've recently learned about the way Jeff Bezos runs Amazon. An obvious question from these examples is, can an ambitious tech company rule the universe without being run by assholes?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2015, @06:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2015, @06:11PM (#254799)

    I'm pondering this same question, although for a different reason. I'm just starting a company with a software product in a market that has more complex products than mine, while mine is meant to provide simpler services which covers most peoples basic needs (Why pay 60 dollars every year for something you only need 10% of?). I'm a software tester by trade and have a fair amount of skill in software development, but no experience in marketing. I looked into advertising using Google and it turns out they offer a price per day for X number clicks, rather than X number of page views. It turns out for 5-10 dollars a day ($150-$300 a month) I can get *1* click a day! For 50-60 dollars a day ($1500-$1800 a month) I can get 5-6 clicks a day. I may still try it out, but these sorts of prices are crazy in my mind. Since not every click will translate out to be a sale, I'm not sure how someone without deep pockets can properly market a product. If anyone has experience in this, I'd love to hear of it.