Living on the peninsula, I learned to hide my MBA and Accountancy degrees like I should be ashamed of being the first of my family to graduate college. Knowing and being able to teach corporations about kanban and kaizen and that there are technically at least three different kinds of accounting, depending on the professional standards' boards of the CMA or CFA or CPA isn't a bad thing. Each professional certification (that is what the "C" stands for in each acronym) has legal and regulatory considerations -- and each has an industry-standard of ethics to consider when working with money ...
to fund,
to run,
to sustain with audited money in a business.
I felt mostly hate living, trying to survive in Silicon Valley. People in Silicon Valley hated business-minded brains back then. It was "too soon" after the dotcom crash of the 00s, ... and they blamed "Wall Street". So I worked as a self-taught tech. But what I self-taught was just never good enough for more than 20 dollars per hour (the max rate I made the 7 years I lived there). That 2006 rejection email for the job of "Technical Writer" hurt me a lot, for a long time; it hurt my mom, too. She was my family's #MMIW before I even knew what native people we descend from.
When I count my blessings, divorce is always at the top of my list. And it was near the top of hers, too, when she met my parent (that story is on a webpage you already indexed). By the time I was 26 years old, I naively thought you could help me find her. I was sending you my application from my apartment that had no heat; couldn't afford the gas bill and I needed the electric for computer. That was a tough, dark time for me after my divorce from the abusive alcoholic husband the Mormon bishops had coerced me into marrying too young. I found out later (around the time I learned contracts entered into under coercion, deception or fraud are not legally valid), that they'd lied about many things .... maybe out of malice, maybe not. But in any case, the 13 original Colonies did everything they could to rip the rug out from the matriarchal, and female leadership-run tribal systems we already had when Christopher Columbus got lost at sea. Columbus was probably quite a lot like the drunk I divorced who went apeshit after I was earning more than him out of school, at age 25. And sabotaged I was -- just like Gabby Petito's partner was demeaning, dismissive and fearful of her success, mine have been too. That saboteur personality seems to be part of almost every aspiring tech bro I ever meet: as long as he's being paid more than me, has more "followers", he can keep telling himself he's better than me, worth more to the planet than me.
I'm glad I don't believe that any more ... but because those guys believe it, I need your help.
I have three younger brothers older / more mature than college dropout CEO; I know how the male brain thinks and works. But not all Googlers today are stereotypical "tech bro". And it is why I am making my "begging a group of Googlers" post to you specifically. Larry took all stock, and a salary of one dollar one of those early years; I admired that. That is what a founder does. But that is what a CFO exploits.
Your CFO replacing Ruth P was (no nice way to put this) the wrong choice, in my humble opinion. Aside from the fact that Ashkenazi is probably closely related ...maybe the first or second cousin of college dropout CEO... Ashkenazi also came from the pharmaceutical industry, the same as college dropout CEO's biological parent.
But addiction is not what Google sells -- addiction is what Meta sells.
I listened to the whole broadcast w/presentation slides. I listened with my 32 years of experience since being designated as a "future scientist", and I did not hear anything compelling justifying the larger price tag. Greedy people make me want to Ralph all over my thriftstore clothes... and it's not because I'm trying to earn enough to pay my electric bill THIS MONTH. I'd rather be documenting any old boring API than not getting paid to write these columns.
Is Bertha's inference engine making any outputs yet on where we might be going with this conversation?
I see and have always seen Google as a search engine that can help people avoid stupid mistakes ... so why you made this mistake specifically with this CFO is so incredibly baffling to me. I suspect certain large shareholders were targeted specifically to not really notice this lower-profile employee replacement.
I write today because I have spent time of my life (time I could be doing other things) putting together a theory. It's not pretty, and people who follow me here because they hate/fear me won't like it. I know people who hate me for my talent, but that should not be my problem. I suspect the new employee was pushed through during chaotic or vulnerable times in the major shareholder's lives -- maybe a midlife crisis, or some other normal human challenge of aging, when he maybe didn't do the level of research he should have done, expecting that by now other people would care as much as you used to.
Today I need your help, along with Moomoo followers ... help warding off the evil and insanity of the dilated pupils guy. He claims somebody made his fake NSA service "mandatory", but yet he was free to reject the 23 billion dollar offer from 7 months ago? This is logical fallacy.
You have enough insider information at Google to make the right search terms that prove my theory. That guy who rebranded his company logo to the "limitless credit card" sign of infinity has done more damage than he could ever clean up... and giving an "all cash deal" to his partners would be one of the dumbest things you can do. I hope you figure out what you can do to stop him before it is too late.
Please be more aggressive in taking down the Ralphy suits with the atrociously cooked books ; I know you have it in you. I'm tired of working for people who abuse me in my talent to pay themselves trillions of percents more than I make.
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