CEO of Waymo John Krafcik is leaving
Having read hundreds of these sorts of CEO leaving letters I&#x27;m a bit jaded and cynical. If you&#x27;re interested in what I see when I read that message, I rewrote it[1] in more plain language.<p>Google demands a lot of its &quot;other bets&quot; companies. Some might say it asks too much. Mostly it seems to me that they want a &#x27;moonshot&#x27; company that has the original profitability of search advertising, full stop. And while it would be great for them if they found it, there is a lot to be said for having a bunch of businesses that just make anywhere from a few million to a billion dollars a year in revenue.<p>I don&#x27;t know if the attitude has changed since I was there but people creating $20M&#x2F;year business revenue streams were not considered &quot;successful&quot; back in the day. I found that somewhat self defeating.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;ChuckM&#x2F;ff5fc8c800c7fe9160483b68ec45aac9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;ChuckM&#x2F;ff5fc8c800c7fe9160483b68ec45a...</a>