Report: Larry Page once considered killing Google Cloud before Thomas Kurian turned it around
curious_vii · x · 2026-10-29
Citing a report, Larry Page reportedly considered pulling the plug on Google Cloud last year due to its poor performance and his own predispositions, with the unit's two top execs also feuding at the time.
The poster muses that Thomas Kurian must now rank among the ten best hires in tech history, having taken Google Cloud from near-shutdown to competing head-on with AWS.
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