I found this article a bit too elaborate and digressive, but it has a lot of content and sourcing.

In one email, Fox adds that there was a “pretty big disconnect between what finance and ads want” and what search was doing.

When Gomes pushed back on the multiple requests for growth

In a WIRED interview from 2021, Steven Levy said Raghavan “isn’t CEO of Google— he just runs the place,” and described his addition to the company as “a move from research to management.”

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[–] 35 points 2 years ago*

TL;DR: It was the bean counters

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    Prabhakar Raghavan is Search Engine syphilis.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Interesting deep dive and very much worth a read. I'd say it probably underestimates the weight of finance-related pressures coming from the CFO's office, though.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)