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The Innovator’s Dilemma: Sundar Pichai’s Take on Navigating a Large Corporation and His Anticipation for the Year Ahead

At one point, Levin asked what Pichai tried to do to keep a company of 200,000 people innovative against all the startups battling to disrupt its business. So I think, I think how do you as a company move fast? “We recently said, we went back to a notion we had in early Google of Google Labs. How do you allow people to prototype more easily internally and get it out to people?”Later, Levin asked what advances Pichai was most excited about this year. Levin and Pichai start around 1 hour and 18 minutes in.

Zara Khan
April 5, 2024
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Enterprise

Google CEO Sundar Pichai Announces Additional Layoffs

After laying off over 1,000 workers across divisions last week and cutting 100 jobs at YouTube, Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a memo to its staff warning more layoffs are expected this year. Pichai’s memo said the company will have to make “tough choices” to meet its ambitious goals, as reported by The Verge. But I know it’s very difficult to see colleagues and teams impacted,” he said in an email to staffers. At the time, the company also confirmed to TechCrunch that Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman were leaving the organisation. On Wednesday, Google laid off 100 YouTube staffers as part of reorganisation.