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Ask HN: Who should be the next Google CEO?

9 points by glimshe ↗ HN
Sundar Pichai is a resilient CEO, but his time to go will eventually come - especially with the stock down 6% as it is today. It has been said in the past that the big problem is that nobody can replace him as Google CEO...

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ijhuygft776
Who should be the next YC CEO?
pyb
Geoff Ralston was doing fine? Bring him back?
hacknewslogin
How about someone that restores the "Don't be evil" motto?
alecsm
Shareholders care about money, not mottos.

That Google we once knew is gone.

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Copenjin
Urs Hölzle, hoping that he will accept the proposal this time (I've read somewhere that he refused and they went with Sundar, sad).
VirusNewbie
He recently quit being a SVP to go back to being an IC, I'm not sure he wants even more management responsibility.
thiago_fm
The CEO of a corporation with a board like Google has very little leeway on what it can do.

Those companies first need to get into a huge crisis before the board and shareholders think about new changes.

People that haven't been into management typically have a very naive idea about how much power managers have. It isn't that much, you need to parrot a lot of stuff you don't like just because others want to listen it, or the board and shareholders think it is important.

sk11001
> People that haven't been into management typically have a very naive idea about how much power managers have.

A CEO isn't just a manager though, at director level and above you get to have a say about what gets worked on and what doesn't in a way you don't if you're lower-level management.

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