The CEO cant just change all that with directives, even if they do something extreme like a 'No Depreciations' policy, products are liable to be depreciated in all but name (Joe the intern takes care of it every 5th Tuesday, technically not depreciated) by sheer corporate momentum alone, nobody wants to be stuck with a dead fish, even if its now illegal to openly comment on how much it stinks. Its far from trivial to change an entire corporate culture on a dime.ДЇrom everything we have seen of Google's culture, working on new projects is exciting and is absolutely the way to get promoted.Дoing maintenance work, especially on products that aren't wildly successful gets you no attention, no staff, no funding, and probably more than a little tongue waging. There may be some truth to these accounts-reality is often between the lines-but this is extremely soft on details and actual first person accounts. > A Google spokesperson declined to comment prior to the publication of this story, but after it appeared released the following statement: 'Reports of these conversations from 2018 are simply not accurate.' 'at risk of losing funding' can literally mean anything from changing FTE allocation to capital expenses to a million other things that get discussed at an executive level. Furthermore, there is no concrete assertion here that what happens if this deadline is passed. You set goals, you decide what happens when those goals are met. In other words, this was a conversation about literally every product at an executive level ever. So it's not about being #1, it's about being profitable.

To reach such scale, they said, Google would need to be in a top two position in the market. > The groupвЂ™s leaders told staffers that if Google couldnвЂ™t reach a certain size with its computing and storage business-two of the most commonly used cloud services-the cloud unit might never become profitable, the person said. > said people with knowledge of the matter.ДЄs in, people who may not have even been at said meeting which took place nearly two years ago, under a different VP and now a different CEO, and saw some meeting notes. Nowhere does it say that Google plans to shutter GCP if it doesn't reach #1 by 2023. I do not understand the hyperbole around this report. My opinions are my own I have no non-public knowledge on this topic.

Breach and clear deadline long to beat