Writing / Mai Ke
Edit / Deng Xiaojin
The picture shows Google’s new CEO Sandar Pichai
In 2020, Pichai became the new CEO of Alphabet, but he is undergoing a great change in Google.
Recently, the old Google employees are constantly talking:
“Google is out of bounds and makes people feel like they have been flickered. This is the most obvious change.”
“I’m giving a sexually harassing guy a sky-high resignation compensation. It’s like I’ve been hit hard. This is really a big evil company.”
“If Google wants to live, there are two paths: transparency and accountability.”
Behind the sentence, there is a big corporate disease that Google can’t escape …
No longer the coolest company in Silicon Valley
In 1999, Google was making great progress. The main purpose of the founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin was to make money.
The bottom line, though, is that they must be in absolute control. This threshold has tripped up many investors. When Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia paid $ 25 million to recharge Google, they proposed that the 26-year-old Page must pay power.
Page doesn’t want to decentralize, so he and Brin have to continue to find alternatives. The first choice they identified was Jobs, which failed.
Later, investors recommended Novell’s CEO Eric Schmidt. The latter was immediately favored by Page and Brin: Page was bullish on his yardman background, and Brin was willing to play with him on Burning Man’s Day.
Schmidt took over Google in March 2001, with fewer than 300 employees. Three years later, Google went public and the number of employees increased 9 times to more than 3,000. By 2010, Google had a market value of more than 180 billion U.S. dollars, and its number of employees exceeded 24,000.
At the moment of highlight, many people also saw Google’s problems. They think that Google is no longer the coolest company in Silicon Valley, but has become a bureaucracy