Posting that pic about Bill Gate's distress prompted me to check into the CEO search at Microsoft.
MS is still floundering -- they have discounted all the internal canidate guys now and are now trying to hire away the CEO of Ford motor company.
Now that's a fit, ain't it?
Hire a CAR guy to go run a computer operating system company .....
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This prompted me to think about Andy Rubin, the tech guru VP that got broken free when Sundar Pichai took over both the Android and Crome OS divisions with the eventual goal of combining them together.
So, what did Google do with Andy? He is their original star technowhizz kid that put the company in the big green, so what is he doing now days?
He is in charge of Moonshots, Google's pet term for paradigm changing technologies, the ones that can really go big if they work out.
Google Loon is an Andy moonshot
Remember them funny looking geeky Google Glasses?
The $35 Chrome streaming device is an Andy moonshot
Google Robotics is another set of Andy moonshots
So what is Google Robotics? Turns out it is a LOT of semi-autonomous smart things that don't look at all like humanoid robots.
Remember that Amazon sky lift delivery system that has UPS and FedEx in a such a dither?
..... Andy's boys strike again and again ....
Do you remember the Summer of Code things Google runs every summer where really bright kids get to go to Google Campus and invent neat new coding tricks? They are given a challenge (a real issue with Android or Linux drivers or something) and they bust it wide open?
Google is branching out with the idea now into the Google Robotics Camps and The Breakthrough New Technology Camps. Ask them smart teenage geeks what the next great thing is gonna be ...
Google is driving hard at new because NEW means opportunities to get in on the very ground floor in brand new industries that might be really big in the next 25 years.
Microsoft has its Ballmer and Google has its Andy (and about half a dozen other good ones like him).