<story><title>Google Founders Have Skipped All of the Company&apos;s 2019 Town Hall Meetings</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/google-founders-tgif-town-hall</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>logicx24</author><text>Sigh. I work at Google, and this is vastly overblown.&lt;p&gt;Larry and Sergey don&amp;#x27;t work at Google anymore. They&amp;#x27;re much more laissez-faire, working on special projects across Alphabet. They don&amp;#x27;t make most of the decisions that effect Google employees, and don&amp;#x27;t have answers to most of the questions that are asked. That was the entire point of promoting Sundar, after all: so Larry could step away from Google.&lt;p&gt;And finally, Larry and Sergey being at TGIF&amp;#x27;s undermines Sundar&amp;#x27;s authority. He&amp;#x27;s the one making decisions, and he&amp;#x27;s where the buck stops, but having the cofounders there creates an uncomfortable dynamic and makes it seem like they have a larger role than they do.&lt;p&gt;So it&amp;#x27;s not a matter of &amp;quot;courage&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;accountability&amp;quot; as much as corporate governance and priority changes. There&amp;#x27;s no drama buried here.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Founders Have Skipped All of the Company&apos;s 2019 Town Hall Meetings</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/google-founders-tgif-town-hall</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stickfigure</author><text>Clickbait headline that is explained within the article itself:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The cofounders planned to step back their Google involvement when they formed Alphabet in 2015 ... The idea was to give Google CEO Sundar Pichai the ability to assert his own leadership during a tumultuous time.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not news, but I&amp;#x27;m sure they&amp;#x27;ll get plenty of clicks from the Google haters.</text></comment>