Omg ...so sad ..that affects every single human of india ...everyone will cry 😣😣😣😣

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She rented out her father’s garage to Google founders. Became involved in creation of Google early on.   Came up with the idea of buying YouTube. Became ceo of YouTube from 2014 until last year.

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She rented out her father’s garage to Google founders. Became involved in creation of Google early on. 

Came up with the idea of buying YouTube. Became ceo of YouTube from 2014 until last year.

Susan Wojcicki is no more

Susan Wojcicki is no more- Grapevine

- Susan Wojcicki, a pioneering figure in Silicon Valley and former CEO of YouTube, has passed away at the age of 56 after battling non-small cell lung cancer for two years.
- Her husband, Dennis Troper, announced her death on Facebook, highlighting her brilliance, motherhood, and friendship.
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff paid tribute to Wojcicki, emphasizing her impact on Google, YouTube, and the tech industry.
- Wojcicki was Google's 16th employee and played a crucial role in its advertising business, later leading YouTube to significant growth.
- She recently joined the board of Planet Labs and leaves behind a legacy of innovation and leadership in tech. 

 Source: [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/c82b7fc6-c6de-40e2-ad20-41d78557bb21)

Former YouTube Chief Susan Wojcicki Dies at 56

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Google turning into WITCH over years

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Atleast not in the form it is now. Found a rare good post on LinkedIn via Twitter which lists the reason why i think so. Also, I was reading psychology of money and one of the chapters discussed how GE used to be the most valued company in 2000s and how within 20 years, everything went to manhole.

Google is seriously going through a leadership crisis. I hate Pichai from the gut. We Indians like him coz he's brown munda, but I have never seen such narrow minded CEO since Balmer.

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Legend says Sama refused to learn DSA for Microsoft Interview after getting inspired by some Indian LinkedIn Influencers.

Can someone confirm if Sama was asked DSA in his Microsoft interview ?

- **Ishan Chatterjee**, former managing director of YouTube India, has been appointed as the new chief business officer at **JioCinema**.
- Chatterjee will focus on driving revenue growth across sports and entertainment, and oversee the platform's overall monetisation.
- This comes as **Reliance Industries** plans to merge Disney+ Hotstar with JioCinema, aiming to expand JioCinema’s content offerings.
- JioCinema had 225 Mn average monthly active users, while Disney+ Hotstar had 333 Mn, according to Reliance Industries' annual report 2023-24.
- Reliance Industries and The Walt Disney Company have also set up a joint venture combining the businesses of Viacom18 and Star India Private Limited.

Source: [Inc42](https://inc42.com/buzz/jiocinema-ropes-in-youtube-india-head-ishan-chatterjee-as-cbo/)

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It's infuriating how everyone's advice to deal with layoffs is side hustles, wasting your life away to constantly upskill and reducing spending. Basically everyone here is saying "live life like shit to appease your corporate overlords" as if layoffs are OUR fault?

Instead, why aren't we seeing any advice on the lines of:

Build expertise in something while you're an employee and later start your own company/business/consultation on the basis of it. This will increase competition within businesses and will force them to treat their employees like humans. This was kind of the reason why things were generally good for employees from 2021-22 because all the startups popping up increased competition for labour.

Or if your employer lays a bunch of people off and starts giving the rest of you their workload, simply refuse! Don't work extra long or extra hard. Get the employees together collectively and make everyone, or at least the majority refuse to entertain these outlandish demands from your employers. What are they gonna do? Fire you all and lose their business? And if that's not going to work, just do everything very poorly and if you're asked about it, just cite that there is a lack of manpower needed to get quality results.

Basically, why have we collectively decided to take the short end of the stick and make our lives miserable when we should instead force employers to face consequences of THEIR OWN poor strategic planning? Why aren't we even discussing ideas for, let alone working on protecting our own best interests rather than interests of those who are screwing us over?

[Layoffs] Why have we just collectively decided to suck it up rather than retaliate?

I have never seen people switching jobs from Zerodha. Correct me if I’m wrong here. I’m just curious

How is Zerodha attrition rate is low? 🧐

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Unacademy HR Head steps down after a 5 year stint. Today was her last day. There are too many stories around her abrupt exit from the organisation﻿.

Next in line : COO, VP Engineering, CBO

Unacademy house of cards finally falling down 🤡

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Lately, I have been thinking very deeply about my college days when the Flipkart story had inspired the entire lot of my batch at IIT-D. We were starry eyed college kids who wanted to do something innovative in India and break away from the "three" most popular moves after IIT:

1. UPSC
2. MBA
3. MS/PhD abroad

I proceeded to then work in various Indian startups and noticed an alarming thing. I began to realise a pattern across all my stints:

The initial founding team does exceptional work innovating, they excel at what Thiel calls "Zero to One", the act of creation. I will concede that although most founders fail to innovate by often copying what worked in the west but the initial founding team usually excels in execution. It allows for initial traction as it breathes a fresh breath in the\ space that they are operating in.

Almost always, when Product Market Fit is "achieved"(whatever that means), the founders begin to deploy insane amounts of funds into growth. 

By definition, Growth is not a bad thing. But, I have been noticing that across all startups I have worked at( all raised funds from the largest global funds) that it comes at the expense of product building. And during this era of hypergrowth, the product starts to stagnate while focus becomes marketing and sales. 

I often felt that this was temporary. That once we reach enough scale, we would start to innovate again. 
But time and time again, the ability to innovate atrophies over time.
Rather than building something that has enduring value by executing faster than anyone, the focus becomes achieving growth at all costs. 

This ultimately leads to two outcomes:
1. The startup cannot sustain this growth and retention begins to look dire. The churn becomes unbearable and the startup goes out of business.

2. The startup gets acquired by someone bigger, allowing founders and investors to believe that they created value where none existed in the first place.

I am completely dejected at this.

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This has become a common discussion topic in my friend circle when we think about switching jobs. Earlier Google used to be number one choice for many, but now due to layoffs and the hear-say about toxic work culture in google cloud things are changing and people are preferring other companies. Is it the same for you as well ? has your perception of Google changing too? Is google loosing both the cloud and AI battle? 
@google

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