Sundar is not a psychopath. You're making a common error, ascribing humanity to Sundar. Sundar is a growth robot with no moral system. See Bryan Cantrill's description of Larry Ellison: "You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle."
The difference is that Sundar is a industrial scale trash compactor, not a lawnmower.
The comparison to Oracle is pretty good. Working for Sundar's Google feels like working for a company whose only product is quarterly earnings reports. I have no idea what the company's mission is anymore besides Number Go Up. The old descriptions of Google's creative, disruptive, academic culture seem very foreign at this point. Our raw materials are the brains of new Comp Sci graduates, and our product is money.
Wow, I hadn’t heard that quote before but is is scary accurate and broadly applicable (think ‘psychopathic’ executives and politicians). I often wonder about those type of folks whether some transformation of mind occurs that turns a previously reasonable human being into a ‘lawnmower’, or whether they were born that way and directed their appetites into channels where they could maximise the expression of their ‘lawnmower-mess’.
