Awk,
honeymoon? The guy has not been the CEO for one full quarter. It will take a little time to change the culture of Wave. I know you like SS, but I think your emotions are getting the best of you.
SS clearly was not without fault. He was removed by the same board that hired him over a decade ago. They obviously thought a change of direction was needed. I would not call a decade without profitability an overreaction.
Sure SS did some great things along the way, but this is a business and making money is the goal. If he was part of a group that forever changed computing but investors never profited, those investors would not view that as an accomplishment.
As I have stated, there are some elements of pure genius to get trusted computing to where it is, but to get it here and not profit from it would be near criminal. Sometimes the baton needs to be passed in order to get to the final destination. That does not incriminate SS as a fool, but perhaps his skills were best suited for one leg of the race. Time will tell, but based on what I am hearing, I think this was a necessary step, like it or not.
Brin and Page did not want to give control away of their company either. I am not comparing wavx to goog, but you get the point. Schmidt brought a set of experiences and disciplines they did not possess and helped bring the company to a place it likely would not have seen.
