On: Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

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I guess I just don't believe this. Google is one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world. Having both people step down like this is incredibly strange.

I mean, neither of them even tried the ol' "I'm stepping down to spend time with my family" thing.

[keenmaster → 3fe9a03ccd14ca5]

Larry and Sergey are basically best friends. Their involvement with Google, as a pair, has been receding for quite some time. Today's announcement was foreshadowed by the creation of Alphabet Inc. as a parent company in 2015.

[vl → keenmaster]

After Brin’s affairs came to light, Page was so pissed off, he didn’t talk to him for many months. They might not be best friends at this point.

[smartbit → vl]

Details in Sergey Brin and Amanda Rosenberg: Inside the Google Co-Founder’s Romance with the Google Glass Marketing Manager | Vanity Fair http://archive.is/kQvuR Febr 2015

[curious_fella1 → 3fe9a03ccd14ca5]

They were practically absent from day to day affairs anyways. This is unsurprising.

[o-__-o → 3fe9a03ccd14ca5]

This has been well known for sometime now[0], it was a matter of when..

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/13/alphabets-larry-page-has-lar...

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Would be interesting if they cashed out their war chest and started another search engine. Won't happen but fun to think about.