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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Evidently this hot take was not for wider consumption, as Stanford — which posted the video this week on YouTube — today made the video of the event private.

  • DiplomjodlerEnglish
    138•3 months ago

    Of course, of course. It can’t possibly have been management infighting, lack of direction and destructive short term greed. No, it was people wanting to see their kids that are to blame.

    • @[email protected]English
      48•3 months ago

      The suits have taken over and are cannibalizing the current portfolio. Search is being transformed into a large AI powered advertisement billboard to pump up the profit. Now they’re all surprised search is less used and realize that search is the gateway to their other services. And the management blame storm begins.

      • DiplomjodlerEnglish
        40•3 months ago

        If only people had worked more unpaid overtime, none of this would had happened.

        • @[email protected]English
          15•3 months ago

          none of this would had happened as fast

          They always forget that part. Stupid executive decisions will still bring everything down.