The sad part is this is actually his job description and Alphabet could get sued by shareholders if he didn‘t do exactly that. The stock market needs to be criminalized, not glorified as the one truth like it‘s treated right now.
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boughtmysoul@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Watch his recent interview with Nilay Patel from The Verge. Watching him dance around questions about this was painful.
This man only cares about increasing Alphabet stock prices to ensure as large a golden parachute as possible on the way out.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 week ago
callouscomic@lemm.ee 1 week ago
You described all executives everywhere.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 week ago
AI stands for Ambitious Indian
(Just plagiarizing the joke about that company that went bankrupt)
Zetta@mander.xyz 1 week ago
This Is literally his legal obligation, welcome to capitalism
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No, making money is not a legal obligation. CEO at my last job told the board, two years in a row, that intended to lose money so we could invest in our people and tech. They cheered him.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 week ago
there are many ways to fulfil this “obligation”… i’d argue that he’s increasing alphabet stock price in the short term but what the fuck is going to happen when the sources all go out of business?
… oh right they’re going to become a news monopoly… cool cool cool