GigglyNarwhal
GigglyNarwhal

Hot Take: Google will not exist in next 30 years

Atleast not in the form it is now. Found a rare good post on LinkedIn via Twitter which lists the reason why i think so. Also, I was reading psychology of money and one of the chapters discussed how GE used to be the most valued company in 2000s and how within 20 years, everything went to manhole.

Google is seriously going through a leadership crisis. I hate Pichai from the gut. We Indians like him coz he's brown munda, but I have never seen such narrow minded CEO since Balmer.

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BouncyQuokka
BouncyQuokka
EXL16mo

Many other xooglers raised these leadership issues earlier. Meanwhile, tier2/3 kids are burning midnight oil to land up in Google to start YT channel

GigglyNarwhal
GigglyNarwhal

Aaj hum dekhenge, google cafe mein khaane mein kya hai

FluffyWaffle
FluffyWaffle
Lowe's16mo

Man there is this influencer in twitter who just post google mein ky khana khaya , ky festival celebrate hua 😐😐😑

PeppyMarshmallow
PeppyMarshmallow

Takes a lot of guts to put it out there so openly. Did she end up losing her job?

QuirkyQuokka
QuirkyQuokka

She wouldn’t have. If there’s one thing Google is known for, it’s being accommodative to its employees inspite of such talk.

GigglyNarwhal
GigglyNarwhal

Not really. They fired their top researcher when she raised concerns about bias in their AI models. Go read it it up, happened 1-2 years back

GroovyBoba
GroovyBoba

Haven't we known this for the last 5 years? Are googlers crying now because their free lunch is over? That a decade of chest thumping the word "AI" has led them to lose to Openai and a bunch of startups? I didn't see no one crying back when all the moonshots were failing left and right a few years back

GigglyNarwhal
GigglyNarwhal

Not sure about India but in USA, people have had raised their concerns time to time. Many have even asked Pichai to resign even before layoffs. There was that AI model bias fiasco at DeepMind. The researcher got fired though for raising her concerns

CosmicLlama
CosmicLlama

This is universal, not limited to Google. Every business or service, government or private - big or small undergoes revolutionary change in 30 years. reliance made big money in textile industry. Tata's first business was steel. Tata motors (telco at that time) was started to build truxk s to move their raw material and finished products.
Big companies dont die they morph. Google might have not made a revolutionary product in the recent times. But they just need 1. They have the money to wait for it.

GigglyNarwhal
GigglyNarwhal

Insightful, yes they have big pockets. Microsoft was in same rut during Balmer era. Pichai is Balmer of Google.

SwirlyPancake
SwirlyPancake
Amazon16mo

30 years is a long time. Nothing will remain the same. Except maybe the consulting firms, which thrive on change and chaos.

SquishyNugget
SquishyNugget
Dunzo16mo

I hate their launch-cancel policy, to be honest. It still hurts that they canceled Stadia.

GigglyNarwhal
GigglyNarwhal

I really loved stadia and there negative latency claim, which never came to prod lol

ZestyQuokka
ZestyQuokka
Hinge16mo

Wait I think we are estimating too far. Pichai won't stay for next 30 years, also Google embraces tech upgrade faster than MSFT.

Too soon to write them off

FuzzyPickle
FuzzyPickle
Amazon16mo

All beacuse of Covid Charity Hiring.

WigglyPickle
WigglyPickle

Microsoft under Steve calmer was also in crisis but they bounced back

GigglyNarwhal
GigglyNarwhal

Because Balmer quit eventually

SillyJellybean
SillyJellybean
Visa16mo

GE seems to be a company for those who want to retire and dont want to interview more. Have just joined as a intern and can see most of the employee above 35-40 age group

GigglyNarwhal
GigglyNarwhal

GE or Google?

SillyJellybean
SillyJellybean
Visa16mo

general electric (GE)

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