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Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year

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574 points frays | 4 comments | 27 Aug 25 21:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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nailer ◴[27 Aug 25 23:34 UTC] No.45046590[source]▶
I met a long time Google employee this week interventions that most of the senior management were ex oracle people.

It’s nearly 20 years since Google had a category defining product - they haven’t built or acquired a single thing that dominates in the same way that android, maps, search, docs, etc. has since about 2006. It figures.

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1. jjtheblunt ◴[27 Aug 25 23:47 UTC] No.45046684[source]▶
Gemini and transformers in general from Google Brain might say "hold my beer"
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2. tho23i423o4j23 ◴[28 Aug 25 03:40 UTC] No.45048130[source]▶
Google Research/Deepmind is a different thing altogether.

Product wise, Perplexity has them beat by a mile - that said PPLX doesn't quite have the same ads buy-in (or all the Chrome-tricks Google plays to keep tracking alive).

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3. bitpush ◴[28 Aug 25 06:55 UTC] No.45049236[source]▶
If "beating" is just bleeding money then yes. This is the same playbook that Uber had. Offer an exceptionally good service, until you have to make money. Then it becomes shitty.

So nope, it isnt hard to do what Perplexity is doing. The question is, when the music stops will Perplexity be around.

4. nailer ◴[28 Aug 25 11:44 UTC] No.45050977[source]▶
Gemini is absolutely not a category defining product. ChatGPT is. That’s why people talk about looking something up on ChatGPT but not on Gemini. I will hold your beer while you go outside, talk to people outside tech and confirm this.