Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home. I'm Brian McCullough.

I had actually already reached out to Bloomberg's Mark Bergen this week to talk about the

Google Civil War, but then of course there was other big Google News this week

so come for the assessment of Google's ongoing culture conflicts and stay for an assessment

of regime change at Google and a whole lot more.

You know Mark, as we just said,

we were going to talk about Google anyway,

but then, you know, news broke this week.

You know, what everybody said about this changing of the guard thing was that it was

sort of surprising but not at all a surprise. So I mean this was probably coming at some point anyway

but is there anything that we can take in terms of why it's happening now?

Yeah, I mean, the, it's like to turn if when the dusts out all the four years ago

on the alphabet, right?

Because initially when they created alphabet, that was sort of shocking to the world.

And certainly to people at Google.

But then a day later or so,

said, okay, this is, you know, Larry had effectively proceeded and given up a lot of the day-to-day

managerial duties as a sooner anyway and much the same way I think what's what is

surprising about this is that we've never got a sense say that like

Sundar was involved in like you're making decisions about the allocating

capital to Waimo and to verily and to

other bets like right the other bets I mean so he joined the board I think it was last year and that way like so yes we certainly

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