App founder quits Google, says company doesn’t serve users anymore

Active discussion of the post itself from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34799308

Pinchai has been the most lack luster CEO for Google. He has no energy, and feels like a puppet.

While I no doubt believe these things are true, these are interesting stances coming from people knowingly selling their companies to Google, who has had this reputation for a while. Did these CEOs have users front of mind?

It's not blame because I'm not sure I could turn down retire-in-three-years money, but it is a choice they made for their users.

> Seshadri left Google the second his "three year mandatory retention period" was up

What is a mandatory retention period? Sounds like a stock vesting schedule to me.

Funny how customers disliked this person.

Did they have a perception that in 2020 Google was serving their users, or they believed it all along, but took the payday anyways?

Google has supported its primary users for years - those users are the people paying them to run ads. I haven't seen or heard anything about google making it harder to pay them to display ads.

Google does not care about the users of their services? That's weird, how could this be? That's weird.