“So how are you going to preserve the culture at Google Cloud?" In meetings and conference calls at Oracle, Kurian tore into his employees for perceived poor performance by screaming, cursing and calling them names. Under Diane Greene, Google’s cloud-computing division had an unofficial rule: It wanted to be enterprise, but didn’t want to be Oracle. Like Kurian, Greene was a polarizing leader, attracting either adoration or antipathy, but they diverged in a key way. In his early months at Google, Kurian worked to replace leaders who had left.

Source: Mint July 26, 2021 16:18 UTC