One of many greatest tales within the markets to this point this yr is the lack of $100 billion in market capitalization that was snatched from Alphabet inventory when it turned clear that the search big was beneath siege by Microsoft’s push into synthetic intelligence. How did such a profitable and modern enterprise immediately discover itself on this scenario? Maybe it wasn’t shocking. Maybe what has been bothering Alphabet for a very long time, the ChatGPT headlines and Google Search had been simply the catalyst to unleash all that doubt among the many investor public.
The inventory market is closed right this moment, so I convey to your consideration this lengthy however worthwhile submit by a former worker of the corporate that sheds some mild on what went fallacious internally and the way it got here to be.
I joined Google simply earlier than the pandemic hit when the corporate I co-founded, AppSheet, was acquired by Google Cloud. The acquisition group and executives welcomed us and handled us nicely. We joined with nice enthusiasm and dedication to combine AppSheet into Google and make it successful. Nevertheless, now that my obligatory three-year retention interval has expired, I am letting Google perceive how a once-great firm has slowly gone out of enterprise.
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