One of many greatest tales within the markets to date this 12 months is the $100 billion in misplaced market cap ripped out of Alphabet’s inventory when it grew to become obvious that the search large was going to be below siege by Microsoft’s push into AI. How did such a profitable, modern enterprise like this instantly discover itself on this place? Perhaps it wasn’t so sudden. Maybe what ails Alphabet was a very long time coming and the ChatGPT vs Google Search headlines had been simply the catalyst to unleash all this doubt among the many investing public.

The inventory market is closed immediately so I’m directing your consideration to this lengthy however worthwhile submit by an ex-employee of the corporate who sheds some gentle on what’s flawed internally and the way issues acquired that manner.

I joined Google simply earlier than the pandemic when the corporate I had co-founded, AppSheet, was acquired by Google Cloud. The buying staff and executives welcomed us and handled us properly. We joined with nice enthusiasm and dedication to combine AppSheet into Google and make it a hit. But, now on the expiry of my three 12 months necessary retention interval, I’ve left Google understanding how a once-great firm has slowly ceased to operate.

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