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▲ nostrademons a day ago

Google was a clusterfuck (literally?) of people boning other people they shouldn't have been.

It's not really a counterexample, though, because most of the people in question are no longer there, and lost their jobs over their affairs. As far as I've heard, Sundar is pretty clean, almost robotic, and has a low-profile personal life. He is the polar opposite in that regard of Sergey (who was a walking HR violation) and Eric (whose NDA-bound mistresses are legendary across Silicon Valley). Much of the reason why they have stepped back from operating roles and fucked off to being class-B shareholders only is because their personal lives are a liability to a major company operating in the environment that Google does today.

DannyBee is undoubtedly well aware of that, having been a lawyer for Google during the time period when this went down.

▲fidotron 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, I was aware of DannyBee's history, which is why I chose that example.

Sundar always looked to me like he used Andy Rubin's similar habits to finally push him out of the door, and then institutionalized using accusations of this nature as a weapon against everyone below. Obviously Sergey escaped by virtue of ascending to a higher level.

▲chrisco255 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Sergey is still on the board and has been very active in the company's Gemini development. He may not be president any longer but he's still there.