<story><title>Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt&apos;s Leaked Stanford Talk</title><url>https://github.com/ociubotaru/transcripts/blob/main/Stanford_ECON295%E2%A7%B8CS323_I_2024_I_The_Age_of_AI%2C_Eric_Schmidt.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chii</author><text>&amp;gt; Google was loosing on many fronts&lt;p&gt;i believe this trend is a result of management culture and performance metrics that attempt to measure &amp;quot;impact&amp;quot;, and correlate pay and promotions along those measures.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s the same reason why google products die when they don&amp;#x27;t reach mega-success (thus products getting killed off in spades recently).&lt;p&gt;Nobody wants to be doing maintenance on projects started by somebody else - so as soon as the lead visionary leaves for better pastures, that project gets languished, and whoever takes over it cannot use it to generate promotion worthy impact.</text></item><item><author>pzo</author><text>Considering that in Meta I heard (from friends) it is&amp;#x2F;was easier to work remotely and even easier to get into (they are less leetcode oriented) I would expect the problem with Google loosing is somewhere else. Google was loosing on many fronts for a while:&lt;p&gt;- dart lost to typescript on web&lt;p&gt;- angular lost to react&lt;p&gt;- tensorflow looks like currently loosing to pytorch - seems like google got bored and more development is for JAX, Keras wrapper [0]&lt;p&gt;- IMHO flutter will loose with react-native or kotlin compose multiplatform - compare github insights for details&lt;p&gt;Meta on the other hand kickstarted open source Llama community. In this situation it&amp;#x27;s hard to bet on Gemmini or Gemma as 3rd party developer considering google projects kill records. The only project they were really to bet on and invest for the long run without getting tired early on was Chrome and Android.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=today%205-y&amp;amp;q=&amp;#x2F;g&amp;#x2F;11bwp1s2k3,&amp;#x2F;g&amp;#x2F;11gd3905v1&amp;amp;hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=today%205-y&amp;amp;q=...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>Ozzie_osman</author><text>His explanation for Google losing to OpenAI on GenAI: &amp;quot;Google decided that work life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;What a tremendous lack of self-awareness. Let&amp;#x27;s put aside all the leadership issues, all the politics, all the complacency, all the bureaucracy, and blame people for working from home.&lt;p&gt;(Not saying there aren&amp;#x27;t folks at Google who are just cruising, etc... but that&amp;#x27;s a fraction of the problem compared to the leadership issues)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jordanb</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d go further and bet that those &amp;quot;impact&amp;quot; metrics likely came from a spreadsheet pusher like Schmidt.&lt;p&gt;Schmidt still takes the gold medal in my estimate for destroying a company he ran by not understanding how the business actually works (as CEO of Novell he decided to screw their channel partners not understanding that the channel relationships were the company&amp;#x27;s entire moat against Microsoft).</text></comment>
<story><title>Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt&apos;s Leaked Stanford Talk</title><url>https://github.com/ociubotaru/transcripts/blob/main/Stanford_ECON295%E2%A7%B8CS323_I_2024_I_The_Age_of_AI%2C_Eric_Schmidt.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chii</author><text>&amp;gt; Google was loosing on many fronts&lt;p&gt;i believe this trend is a result of management culture and performance metrics that attempt to measure &amp;quot;impact&amp;quot;, and correlate pay and promotions along those measures.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s the same reason why google products die when they don&amp;#x27;t reach mega-success (thus products getting killed off in spades recently).&lt;p&gt;Nobody wants to be doing maintenance on projects started by somebody else - so as soon as the lead visionary leaves for better pastures, that project gets languished, and whoever takes over it cannot use it to generate promotion worthy impact.</text></item><item><author>pzo</author><text>Considering that in Meta I heard (from friends) it is&amp;#x2F;was easier to work remotely and even easier to get into (they are less leetcode oriented) I would expect the problem with Google loosing is somewhere else. Google was loosing on many fronts for a while:&lt;p&gt;- dart lost to typescript on web&lt;p&gt;- angular lost to react&lt;p&gt;- tensorflow looks like currently loosing to pytorch - seems like google got bored and more development is for JAX, Keras wrapper [0]&lt;p&gt;- IMHO flutter will loose with react-native or kotlin compose multiplatform - compare github insights for details&lt;p&gt;Meta on the other hand kickstarted open source Llama community. In this situation it&amp;#x27;s hard to bet on Gemmini or Gemma as 3rd party developer considering google projects kill records. The only project they were really to bet on and invest for the long run without getting tired early on was Chrome and Android.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=today%205-y&amp;amp;q=&amp;#x2F;g&amp;#x2F;11bwp1s2k3,&amp;#x2F;g&amp;#x2F;11gd3905v1&amp;amp;hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trends.google.com&amp;#x2F;trends&amp;#x2F;explore?date=today%205-y&amp;amp;q=...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>Ozzie_osman</author><text>His explanation for Google losing to OpenAI on GenAI: &amp;quot;Google decided that work life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;What a tremendous lack of self-awareness. Let&amp;#x27;s put aside all the leadership issues, all the politics, all the complacency, all the bureaucracy, and blame people for working from home.&lt;p&gt;(Not saying there aren&amp;#x27;t folks at Google who are just cruising, etc... but that&amp;#x27;s a fraction of the problem compared to the leadership issues)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mFixman</author><text>&amp;gt; I believe this trend is a result of management culture and performance metrics that attempt to measure &amp;quot;impact&amp;quot;, and correlate pay and promotions along those measures.&lt;p&gt;Meta&amp;#x27;s performance reviews are also heavily weighted for measurable impact.&lt;p&gt;I think that the reason why it&amp;#x27;s beating Alphabet in so many fronts is team culture. Most new product teams are small and have a reasonably flat hierarchy. It&amp;#x27;s easy to make impact that&amp;#x27;s both effective and measurable, and the amount of engineering time working in &amp;quot;useless work&amp;quot; is minimised.</text></comment>