Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Stepping Down Amid Investigation
I really liked Ben Horowitz's new book "What You Do Is Who You Are". However, the only passage that I disliked and stood out to me is when he defended David Drummond for his ability to thrive at Google for a long time despite the corporate culture changing.<p>This was after Drummond was called out publicly for abandoning his kid he had with a subordinate: <a href="https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2018/10/25/report-alphabet-clo-drummond-secretly-fathered-child-with-subordinate/?slreturn=20200010162407" rel="nofollow">https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2018/10/25/report-alphabet-c...</a><p>I am sure he's made a lot of people money, but it's not like Google couldn't find a great legal chief who also wasn't a terrible person.<p>Edit: First article I linked to was paywalled, so here is the underlying story: <a href="https://medium.com/@jennifer.blakely/my-time-at-google-and-after-b0af688ec3ab" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@jennifer.blakely/my-time-at-google-and-a...</a>