By becoming a holding company, the former Google keeps his talents – Echoes Business

Sundar Pichai. This name may be nothing to you but hold fast: in 43 years, the Indian-born engineer has been appointed CEO of Google. He succeeds Larry Page taking the direction of the holding Alphabet. This legal structure will oversee all companies created by the company behind the number one search engine in the world: therefore Google (online search, Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Android) but also Calico (in biotechnology) Nest (in home automation), Venture (in private equity), etc. Collateral effect, the group keeps one of his precious talent.

Sundar Pichai will be responsible for the bulk of Alphabet. This Indian-born engineer is the success story of the Internet giant: in 2004 came at Google as vice president in charge of the group’s products, he was appointed senior vice president of Chrome and Apps in 2011, before taking Android’s leadership in 2013. For several years already, persistent rumors announcing his departure. There is a little more than a year, said the noise starting to run Microsoft before Satya Nadella, another Indian, was finally appointed. In recent weeks, we said close to becoming product manager at Twitter. In Silicon Valley, the war for talent is raging. To encourage him to not give in to the lure of competitors, Google had offered him a salary of 50 million dollars a year.

Hugo Barra, the previous

Google does not choose pamper his leadership framework without reasons. In 2013, Hugo Barra, then spokesman of the group’s Android products is debauched by the Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi for vice-president. A blow to the Mountain View firm: this Brazilian computer had enabled an exponential growth in the number of mobile devices with Android, from 200,000 to debut in 2010, 1 billion at the time of his departure in 2013

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Among the engineers, it is not the only high-ranking Googler to have yielded to the sirens of elsewhere. Last May, the engineer who was in charge of project Ara (customizable smartphone) went to direct the Airbus innovation center in Silicon Valley.

“Alphabet”: the facelift

The Mountain View firm and other Silicon Valley companies are so desperate to escape not to let their talents. Especially since Google is aging: in 3 years, the web giant will celebrate its 20th anniversary. Faced with Facebook and Twitter twice as young, Google would be wrong to rest on its laurels. “ Google is not a business like any other and we do not intend it becomes the ” affirmed in 2004 the two founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Larry Page takes this quote today to present “Alphabet”: evidence that the Mountain View firm does not want to deal with has-been increasingly wooed talents. A finding confirmed by the appointment of 8 new CEO in the management of the various subsidiaries of Alphabet

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