Big mistake IMO. I can't imagine Satya "the enterprise guy" being CEO of the devices company (he's probably qualified to be CEO for the "services" part of Microsoft). I'm wondering if him and Elop would work as co-CEOs, but history shows that's not a good idea either.
They'll be held to the same standard as average companies when they get an average CEO. As long as they have a far-seeing genius at the helm I suspect the market will continue to cut them slack.
This is a head scratcher for sure. Replace a bad CEO who over hired relative to productivity, with a guy who presided over an unprofitable consumer hardware business and had to layoff 10,000 people. You’d think between Amazon and the Bezos bucks they’d be able to find someone better.
There are graveyards full of visionary technologists who couldn't deliver shareholder value; why would this hypothetical CEO, presumably a replacement for Pichai, be any different?
He seems to be saying he's not comfortable with his company being as powerful as it is, and that he hopes to reduce that power. If he means it, it's an extraordinary position for a tech CEO to take.
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