> The moves suggest that DeepMind will be absorbed into Google’s broader business. [...] > They added that while Google DeepMind would not become purely commercial, it was integrating further into Google’s business.

I guess might be quite a change (but writing was on the wall, the Deepmind -> Google Deepmind part was the first step)

I suspect the SVP/CEO leading Deepmind has a lot more sway over the rest of the company than someone with a title and no reports. :)

(Also the 20y+ of contributions and having built much of the base Google infra probably gave more influence to Jeff than the remaining title)

They're also incredibly productive and can build/deliver really good stuff, so who knows :)

When Eric Schmidt became chairman or Ruth Porat became president, this was more a transition towards less involvement than an increase of impact.

It's still the typical title as a stepping stone towards something else (often outside).

I thought employees have already had opportunities to cash out (there's enough funding rounds for that).

(Tho how much you can sell was limited, iirc to double digit millions...)

Conveniently Germany is about 1% of the world population. You realize that if most countries use the same argument nothing ever change? (It's only 1% how can it make a difference)

Once the lockup expire they'll be able to trade (sometimes there's trading window but some tech company don't have any for lower level employees), and they'll still be insiders.

That said F-gases would have been an issue, EU only recently banned them.

Also most of Europe truly didn't need AC for a long time, growing up temperature above 30C was exceptional and I didn't even know the term tropical night (nighttime temperature above 20C).

(Now that places are getting 10+ consecutive days above 30 with peaks close or above 40)

(edit: not saying that was the case here, working on devrel usually makes it part of your job to publish code)

I'd expect the strong anti movement from Germany to have some impact.