Here’s Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s public memo on Google at 25

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Google usually celebrates its birthday on September 27th for no particularly obvious reason, but for its 25th anniversary, the company’s getting out ahead — with CEO Sundar Pichai “kicking off celebrations” with a 2,400-word public memo reflecting on where the company’s been.

There’s very little in here that will surprise anyone who’s heard Pichai speak at length, and... it’s mostly brags, which makes sense. But I expect you’ll want to hear what the second-highest paid CEO of the world’s fourth-most valuable company has to say in this moment of transition!

Before I present the whole memo, here are a few passages that caught my eye:

The questions I’ve asked Google have evolved over time: “How do you fix a dripping faucet?” “Fastest...

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