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olliej
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.
prepend
Everyone I know who uses Google ads complains about them. I don’t think they like Google ads, but there’s no viable competitor so they keep paying.
winrid
Google is doing just that with the ad system rework.
Picblick
Google does not care about the users of their services? That's weird, how could this be? That's weird.
kderbyma
Pinchai has been the most lack luster CEO for Google. He has no energy, and feels like a puppet.
1101010010
> 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.

mcqueenjordan
They sold their company to Google. Acquisitions like that typically come with special terms for large shareholders of the company being acquired.
slac
Funny how customers disliked this person.
bmitc
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.

pschuegr
I assume this was a rhetorical question, because I, at least, assume that most CEOs care for their users extends only to the point that they can monetize them. Which means it stops dead when the company is sold.
bdcravens
Did they have a perception that in 2020 Google was serving their users, or they believed it all along, but took the payday anyways?