Last week’s Google NEXT conference could be dubbed CEO Thomas Kurian’s coming out party. With the first major changing of the guard at the CEO suite, the baton has passed from Diane Greene, whose contribution could be summarized as the enterprise whisperer – the one who had the ear of CEOs and CFOs who taught the Google Cloud organization about concerns of the enterprise.
Now it’s time for the next step: build the right organization. Barely three months ago, the baton passed to Kurian.
