Corporate Psychopath of the Week: Google CEO Larry Page

[marmar]

In a surprise appearance at Google’s I/O conference today, CEO Larry Page took the stage to philosophize and take questions about the company’s products, their role in the world, and how Google can solve world hunger. Along the way, he blew off some steam about politics, the media, and all those other pesky tech companies that keep treating Google as a rival instead of welcoming it as an (overlord) a collaborative partner.

It started when a guy from Mozilla asked a question about the future of the Web and mobile platforms. Page dove right in. “I’ve personally been quite sad at the industry’s behavior around all these things," he said. "If you take something as simple as IM, we’ve had an open offer to interoperate forever. Just this week Microsoft took advantage of that by interoperating with us. You can’t have people milking off of just one company.”

He was referring to Microsoft’s announcement that it would incorporate Google Talk into Outlook.com, even though it doesn’t allow Google to incorporate Outlook functions into Gmail. But as AllThingsD’s Mike Isaac noted, he left out the part where Google recently sent Microsoft a cease-and-desist letter demanding that it remove the YouTube app from its Windows Phones. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/05/15/larry_page_io_keynote_google_ceo_blasts_microsoft_oracle_laws_and_the_media.html?wpisrc=newsletter_tis

[bayareamike]

1. Read the article. Not sure why you are calling him a psychopath? nt

[HiPointDem]

2. because he's a freaking psychopath?