Shockwaves ‘ I am sorry…’ were the words of Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, in an e-mail to the employees on announcing a mammoth 12000 job cuts. The action, which Sundar Pichai defended as an act of decisiveness borne out of emergent necessities, sent shockwaves across Google and outside. However this is notContinue reading “Sundar’s Pitch & The Layoff Twitch”
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L J Ross : Northumberland’s Kindlepreneur
This is an amazing story of a lawyer who post graduated from King’s College London pursued further education in Paris and Florence and then settled for a job in London. It was a perfect recipe for a distinguished career and Louise Ross had already taken the first few steps in that direction. However there wasContinue reading “L J Ross : Northumberland’s Kindlepreneur”
From Abra’Cadabra’ to Amazon and Beyond
Cadabra was how Amazon came to being in 1994. Headquartered in Seattle as Jeff Bezos wanted the company to be much closer to the IT infrastructure. However, with the name sounding like a magic trick, the company registered with relentless.com, and eventually was named as Amazon after the River Amazon ( the largest river by wayContinue reading “From Abra’Cadabra’ to Amazon and Beyond”