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I don't buy this narrative (notwithstanding that great commencement speeches are almost always hyperbole). The way I see it Sergey HAD to come back or risk the poorly managed mess that is google completely drop the AI leadership . It proves again that all thats good in Google happened exclusively because of the two founders and that their CEO is not an effective leader at all.

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Basically yeah, a lot of people just keeping the lights on

I've been curious how much the Facebook IPO affected the industry also

We know they lied about video metrics; everyone has to pivot to video to stay competitive (with fradulent metrics)

Given the suspicion of fake accounts and further ad fraud how much have companies felt they have to follow trends rather than come up with sort of, their own organic business models

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