"#Google is exactly the monster that Sundar Pichai and Prabhakar #Raghavan wanted it to be — a lumbering #privateequity vehicle that uses its crooked money machine to demolish smaller players, except there are no more hyper-growth markets left for it to throw billions at, leaving it with #GenerativeAI, a technology that lacks mass-market utility and burns cash with every prompt."
Requiem for Raghavan
Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan was relieved of duty as Senior Vice President of Search, becoming Google's "Chief Technologist." An important rule to follow with somebody's title in Silicon Valley is that if you can't tell what it means, it probably doesn't mean anything. The most notorious example of this is