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madgar | 9 years ago

Ruth Porat is the change you're looking for

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justicezyx|9 years ago

I like the disciple.

But the change is real. Google has been gradually become more and more conventional. That probably was what Larry wanted in the move of creating Alphabet, after all.

Cheyana|9 years ago

Yup. From Financial Review:

"Before Apple’s Steve Jobs died in 2011, he told Google cofounder and CEO Larry Page that his company was trying to do too much. As Page later told the Financial Times, he replied, “If we just do the same things we did before and don’t do something new, it seems like a crime to me." Yet Page also acknowledged that Jobs was right in one sense: he could manage only so many things before too many would get lost in the shuffle."

http://www.afr.com/technology/how-steve-jobs-last-advice-to-...

hkmurakami|9 years ago

Yup. Going further down the "more force behind fewer arrows" approach with fiscal discipline.