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When Google later went public in 2004, Larry, Sergey, and Eric made a pact to work together on Google for the following 20 years. That's coming due soon in 2024.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-executives/top-goo... https://money.cnn.com/2008/01/18/news/companies/google.fortu...

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Didn't all three of them check out years ago?

Yep - Eric left the company early, in 2020. Larry and Sergey are still employed there, but as you note, seem pretty checked out these days.

Sergey is pretty involved according to recent reports

which is the worst outcome possible- sergey is very disruptive. He will come into a project that is dealing with some challenging and real problem and say "well, why don't you just..." and while his idea sounds plausible, after you halt your current approach, context switch to chase the billionare, you learn that the idea wasn't a very good one. I know a few managers at google who had to work to keep sergey away from his employees because sergey would waste everybody's time.

(sergey is a genius and should have run his own R&D group and not bother other groups)

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