Larry and Sergey have spent the majority of their time on Other Bets for quite some time now, and it's good to see that this is finally being solidified / recognized within Alphabet's management structure.
Would you mind explaining what you mean by ‘corpspeak’ with that person’s comment? I wouldn’t be surprised if I wrote something like that in a similar tone.
As I said in my original comment, Larry and Sergey have devoted the majority of their time to Other Bets for a while. Sundar's promotion here is really just recognizing the role he's effectively had for some time at this point.
Satya, on the other hand, has been outstanding. Microsoft has transformed and looks like a company that will be dominant for at least another 20 years.
Ballmer doesnt get enough credit for pivoting msft into enterprise...
Living in Seattle, a notable % of my social circle was at Amazon for the last decade, but more and more are heading across the lake as MSFT reshapes itself.
If there was a clear boundary between old and new Google I'd say it is around the time that Patrick and Alan Eustace left. Other changes in senior leadership happened in that same couple of years.
GOOG went from 550 to 1300 under Sundar's term as CEO.
contextualized a bit: GOOG did 19.4% annualized during Sundar's term, and the S&P500 did 14.3% annualized over the same time. ish.