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#101 CEO Google Cloud, Thomas Kurian: Competitor-Aware and Customer-Obsessed

Grit

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Did You Have to Earn More Street Credit Than the Engineering Managers?

No one had ever come in the company from my background to run that, and i was lie sowat this alwas time for a first so co then you went on to lead 60 soffware acquisitions at the company. 56 of those 60 were within three years, beat all the board projections. So there was a lot i learned doing it. And i felt everyone gets to do the job the way they want to do it. It feels like a relic of the past to me now. I don't know if most people remember but oracle was incredibly acquisitive. Maybe most people don't forget, i just forget, cause that feels like an old photojournalist’s

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