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This is exactly the type of thing you have PR people on staff to write though?

Yeah, I highly doubt either CEO wrote this. Its target audience is investors: "Everything is fine, buy more stock."

That's the smart move right. Sundar is no Elon Musk to get away with gaffes

It is literally the job of PR people to write things like these. I’m confused by your statement. This is effectively a press release, of course it was written by a PR person.

That doesn't mean it has to read like it was written by a PR person.

I agree that ideally you wouldn’t notice that … however I do think there are pretty clear constraints around how you can announce such a thing to avoid harm.

You will always end up with a text like that. It tries to reduce risk and harm and companies will nearly always want to pick that trade-off: rather sound bland and cliched instead of risking undue negative effects.

Well...this is a corporate announcement, so it was likely at least approved by a PR/legal blob.

Because it was lol.

Well it isn't everyday you hear the original CEOs of FAANG companies stepping down these days.

First you heard Gates, then Jobs (Twice) and now Page and Brin. We'll see if whether if Pichai can continue this now that he has been crowned King of Alphabet and Google.