Douglas Merrill, CIO at Google and recent Fast Company coverboy, is leaving Mountain View to become president of record label EMI. At first I thought former PodTech CEO John Furrier was pulling a fast one, but John Paczkowski confirmed via email that it's no hoax. Look for the official press tomorrow, Furrier added, before complaining that TechCrunch didn't cite him for the scoop.
Douglas Merrill leaves Google for EMI
5:20 PM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Jackson West
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Wow, what a weird transition.
This is truly baffling. Isn't he an IT guy?
Maybe he used his 20% time to figure out new and innovative ways to rip off bands and music fans.
This has to be a joke. I believe he's hearing impaired.
The guy on the cover of Fast Company? I didn't know Sawyer from Lost worked for Google.
That's a shame. He's cute, but I'm not going over to Idolator. They make fun of my Grunge collection.
he's got a great blog here:
[otherendofsunset.blogspot.com]
Damn! Google keeps losing their best players....First Reyes, then Sheryl Sandberg, and now Douglass Merrill....It seems like the 'good ones' are leaving for brighter skies (and the stock sure ain't helping things along).....and the bad ones are staying on...which means bad news for current employees.
If Google really is the "#1" company to work for as claimed by Fortune and it's own CRAZY PR team, then NO ONE (especially not the stars) would leave...yet they keep leaving...to Facebook, to startups, to go back to school.
Google's glory days are over.
I knew the honeymoon had to end someday. I've said all along that internally, the management team SUCKS at Google. Things are chaotic (in a bad way). As they try to scale larger and larger (hiring 800 people a month) they have totally lost their original appeal- innovation, etc- and have seriously become BUREAUCRATIC.
I know someone who works there and they have a monthly 'Dilbert' management meeting to discuss ways they can improve things because things are sooo bad there these days.
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