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  • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    He’s helped with the only metric that shareholders actually care about: profitability. No matter that a lot of those on-paper $ have come through gimmickry and at the expense of the long-term success of the company.

    • Hazdaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      You are right. The year before he became CEO, Google “only” had revenue of $66B. Last year, their revenue was $280B.

      But if you look at the revenue chart, they were headed in that direction seemingly regardless of who was at the helm. But I think he is really hurting their long-term profits. I know that might sound crazy when they are making over 1/4 of a trillion per year, but there are more and more people who will simply not even consider a Google product these days because they feel in 6 months, Google will just kill it off. Who wants an orphaned phone or watch or VR headset, let alone all the software and services they kill off.

      • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, they aren’t just eating their seed corn. They’re sowing the seed corn and then burning it down before it bears fruit, over and over

      • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.orgEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        there are more and more people who will simply not even consider a Google product these days because they feel in 6 months, Google will just kill it off

        What the fuck?