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I don’t want to sound unthankful, but shouldn't Sergey Brin focus on fixing back Google? That will be more helpful to humanity then whatever this is.

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Does he even own enough shares to do that if he wanted to? (I genuinely don't know, it isn't clear from his Wikipedia page).

I'm not sure if Google is fixable at this point, though I agree with the sentiment; the financial incentives were always pulling this way, even if Google wasn't itself selling advertising, and even if generative AI wasn't better than spam-content detection AI.

My understanding is that Google’s stock structure was set up specifically to allows Sergey and Larry to retain a majority in terms of voting rights when combined.

Sergey and Larry combined have a majority of voting shares

I think Brin has Google exactly the way he likes it.

Agreed.

Google is still a colossal money printer. Since that’s the only real goal of the people who own it (the shareholders), what’s broken that needs to be fixed?

It's prioritizing next-quarter profits over ten-year profits.

That's just life as a public company.

From the perspective of the owners that’s a feature, not a bug.

Shareholders want big number go bigger so they can cash out, why would they care about the state of Google ten years from now?

If you owned a significant percentage of google, what would you sell it for that would be worth more than google in ten years if it was optimized for value in ten years?

If he fixed google, where would he get money for zeppelins?

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