A company laying people off does not mean financial difficulty. Instead this can be viewed as much more of a conservative approach. Down sizing or removing areas of the business which are unprofitable or unproductive is a more likely reason.

Of course she was and you know this how

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from a personal angle I'm aware continuing to invest in periods of higher volatility is a Smart way to build wealth

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Google stock price was $30 in 2015 it’s up to $145. I would say Sundar has not been bad at all.

What you see in the headlines shouldn't be your entire impression of a company if your intention is to be a serious investor... there are many obvious advantages both AWS and microsoft enjoy against GCP (ex. nobody is competing with amazon's well established array of decent cloud services or microsoft's entire os/app ecosystem). Playing catch-up against AWS would have been a very expensive gamble and I don't think avoiding that was necessarily a bad decision. You may remember that Microsoft bought yahoo to play against google and it ended up being one of the worst deals in history. Now google has an ad monopoly that is arguably comparable to AWS in terms of ability to generate cash. People are going ballistics over the potential for google to lose a few percentage points at the absolute most in search traffic. This isn't going to hurt the ad monopoly in the slightest and will probably in actuality be as impactful for microsoft as GCP is for google. Google absolutely did not miss the bat on AI, in fact before microsoft partnered with OpenAI they were falling far behind. A lot of the core OpenAI staff actually defected from google. In my opinion it's impressive that they managed to come up with the chatbot, but it's mostly just hype for wall street to trade and speculate on. The chatbot is very interesting but not a particularly lucrative use case in the longer run and google retains the lead on many more practical research directions.

@@02nupe In my opinion, stock price should not be the indicator to judge the CEO. Google was a well-established brand with a great tech team and great products and services even before the new CEO came in. But what is missing is if you compare it with other big tech is that Google seems to miss on multiple trends 1. Cloud 2. AI 3. Devices. Sure the stock did well but it was because of their already great search engine. I just hope it does not go the IBM, Cisco or Intel route.

@@AkashSingh-ox5js​​⁠I hear you. You have to have stock price factored in some capcity, otherwise we have seen other stocks that didn’t rise. So respectfully disagree