谷歌云離職潮-現(xiàn)任CEO的離職信

據(jù)外媒報(bào)道，谷歌云CEO戴安妮格林（Diane Greene）準(zhǔn)備辭職，前甲骨文高管托馬斯庫(kù)里安（Thomas Kurian）將成為谷歌云新任CEO。

【 圖片來(lái)源：THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX 所有者：DAMIEN MALONEY 】

Diane Greene的任期到明年1月，Thomas Kurian將在11月26日加入谷歌Cloud云服務(wù)部門，留出一些時(shí)間來(lái)保證平穩(wěn)過(guò)渡。在Diane Greene發(fā)布的離職信中，她表示未來(lái)將投入教育和慈善事業(yè)。

谷歌云近來(lái)已經(jīng)有多位高管離職，說(shuō)明Diane Greene或許早有預(yù)兆。此前報(bào)道，11月15日，Google Cloud AI研發(fā)主管兼Google AI中國(guó)中心總裁李佳確認(rèn)離職，更早之前的9月10日，Google Cloud AI首席科學(xué)家李飛飛也已經(jīng)離職。

要算到更早之前，谷歌云副總裁Bogomil Balkansky 8月份離職，一直以來(lái)他被視為谷歌云首席執(zhí)行官Diane Greene的長(zhǎng)期副手，在Bogomil Balkansky離職前的一個(gè)多月，谷歌云COO Diane Bryant也離職了，她去年12月起擔(dān)任Google Cloud首席運(yùn)營(yíng)官。

如此之多的高管密集離職，也引起了市場(chǎng)對(duì)于谷歌云的擔(dān)憂。據(jù)Synergy Research統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)據(jù)顯示，AWS占有34%的市場(chǎng)份額，微軟以15%的市場(chǎng)份額排在第二位，IBM第三名，谷歌排在第四名，市場(chǎng)份額是個(gè)位數(shù)。

在Diane Greene的三年任期內(nèi)，谷歌云算是打出了自己的招牌。在Gartner的魔力象限報(bào)告和Forrester的Waves報(bào)告中，谷歌云都在領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者象限，谷歌云在衛(wèi)生醫(yī)療、金融服務(wù)、零售、游戲和媒體、能源和生產(chǎn)以及交通等領(lǐng)域都有所建樹(shù)。Cloud ML和Cloud IoT團(tuán)隊(duì)的成立確立了谷歌技術(shù)上的優(yōu)勢(shì)，期間谷歌云還收購(gòu)了Apigee、Kaggle、Qwiklabs和其他一些初創(chuàng)公司。

以下為Diane Greene離職信：

Hello All,

When I joined Google full-time to run Cloud in December 2015, I told my family and friends that it would be for two years. Now, after an unbelievably stimulating and productive three years, it's time to turn to the passions I've long had around mentoring and education.

The mentoring will include investing in and helping female founder CEOs who have engineering or science backgrounds. I want to encourage every woman engineer and scientist to think in terms of building their own company someday. The world will be a better place with more female founder CEOs.

The work in education will especially be initiatives that combine technology with in-person teaching to make high-quality education that is low-cost, scalable and personalized. When bebop was purchased by Google, I committed all of my proceeds to philanthropy, it is high time to put that money to work!

Thomas Kurian, a respected technologist and executive, will be joining Google Cloud on November 26th and transitioning into the Google Cloud leadership role in early 2019. Sundar, Urs and I all interviewed Thomas, and I believe that he'll do an amazing job helping to take Google Cloud to the next level.Thomas has 22 years of experience at Oracle; most recently he was President of Product Development.

I will continue as CEO through January, working with Thomas to ensure a smooth transition. I will remain a Director on the Alphabet board.

The Google Cloud team has accomplished amazing things over the last three years, and I'm proud to have been a part of this transformative work. We have moved Google Cloud from having only two significant customers and a collection of startups to having major Fortune 1000 enterprises betting their future on Google Cloud, something we should accept as a great compliment as well as a huge responsibility.

We've built a strong business together—set up by integrating sales, marketing, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Google Apps/G Suite into what is now called Google Cloud.

We established a training and professional services organization and partnering organizations. We revamped customer engineering and added a team of experts in the Office of the CTO. We also pioneered a way to help enterprises adopt AI through our Advanced Solutions Lab. We built out a full marketing organization that in just three years has received many recognitions including Cannes Lions awards. We set up our industry verticals org where we have achieved massive traction in health, financial services, retail, gaming and media, energy and manufacturing, and transportation. We set up the Cloud ML and the Cloud IoT groups. We acquired Apigee, Kaggle, qwiklabs and several great small startups. Our technology development has been recognized throughout the industry, and Google Cloud is differentiated in security, AI, open hybrid application modernization, G Suite, and many other areas. We are now recognized as a leader in 11 Gartner Magic Quadrants and Forrester Waves.

But here's what I'm most proud of: the phenomenal team assembled and how we together have built out all of our functions for customer-facing enterprise readiness and engineering enterprise execution. When this journey started, some people would say that Google had great technology but they weren't sure that customers would rely on Google as their enterprise partner. At our recent Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco, we had over 23,000 attendees, representing 10x growth from 2016. With nearly 300 customers speaking about how Google Cloud is helping to transform their businesses, no one was questioning our seriousness or our abilities.

The cloud space is early and there is an enormous opportunity ahead. I have loved working with everyone. I am especially grateful to all of our customers, partners, and employees for an amazing three years of getting to work with you.

—Diane

以下為中文翻譯：

大家好，

當(dāng)我在2015年12月加入谷歌，全職負(fù)責(zé)Cloud云服務(wù)的時(shí)候，我對(duì)我的親朋好友說(shuō)我會(huì)做兩年時(shí)間。到現(xiàn)在，我已在這里度過(guò)了緊張刺激和富有成效的三年時(shí)光?，F(xiàn)在，我是時(shí)候去從事我很久以來(lái)就一直很想做的輔導(dǎo)和教育行業(yè)了。

輔導(dǎo)工作將包括投資和幫助具有工程或科學(xué)背景的女性創(chuàng)始人。我希望鼓勵(lì)每一個(gè)女性工程師和科學(xué)家考慮在將來(lái)某一天建立自己的公司。如果有更多女性創(chuàng)始人和CEO，這個(gè)世界將會(huì)變得更加美好。

教育方面的工作將主要是一些項(xiàng)目，也就是將技術(shù)與現(xiàn)場(chǎng)教學(xué)相結(jié)合，打造低成本的、可拓展的和個(gè)性化的高質(zhì)量教育。當(dāng)我的Bebop公司被谷歌收購(gòu)的時(shí)候，我將所有收益都捐給了一個(gè)慈善基金?，F(xiàn)在，我是時(shí)候讓那些資金發(fā)揮效力了！

托馬斯-庫(kù)里安是一個(gè)受人尊敬的科技專家和高管，他將會(huì)在11月26日加入谷歌Cloud云服務(wù)部門，并將會(huì)在2019年初擔(dān)任該部門CEO。桑達(dá)爾、烏爾斯和我一起面試了庫(kù)里安。我相信，他將會(huì)有出色表現(xiàn)，帶領(lǐng)谷歌Cloud云服務(wù)達(dá)到下一個(gè)新的高度。庫(kù)里安在甲骨文工作了22年，在最近，他還開(kāi)始擔(dān)任產(chǎn)品開(kāi)發(fā)總裁。從現(xiàn)在到明年1月，我將會(huì)繼續(xù)擔(dān)任這個(gè)部門CEO，與庫(kù)里安合作，保證公司平穩(wěn)過(guò)渡。我將會(huì)繼續(xù)留在Alphabet董事會(huì)。

在過(guò)去三年中，谷歌Cloud云服務(wù)已取得了了不起的成就，我很驕傲參與了這個(gè)革命性的工作。在最開(kāi)始，谷歌Cloud云服務(wù)的客戶只有兩個(gè)大企業(yè)和一些初創(chuàng)公司，現(xiàn)在有很多《財(cái)富》1000強(qiáng)企業(yè)均押寶谷歌云服務(wù)。對(duì)于我們來(lái)說(shuō)，這是很高的贊譽(yù)，也是很大的責(zé)任。

我們一起打造了強(qiáng)大的業(yè)務(wù)，整合了銷售、營(yíng)銷、谷歌云服務(wù)平臺(tái)和谷歌Apps/G Suite，并更名為谷歌Cloud。

我們建立了一個(gè)培訓(xùn)和專業(yè)服務(wù)組織和合作關(guān)系組織。我們改造了消費(fèi)者工程，增加了專家人才。我們還帶頭幫助企業(yè)采用我們的高級(jí)解決方案實(shí)驗(yàn)室打造的AI技術(shù)。我們?cè)诙潭倘陜?nèi)就打造了一個(gè)市場(chǎng)營(yíng)銷組織，而且還獲得了很多認(rèn)可，包括戛納國(guó)際創(chuàng)意獎(jiǎng)。我們建立了行業(yè)垂直組織，并在衛(wèi)生醫(yī)療、金融服務(wù)、零售、游戲和媒體、能源和生產(chǎn)以及交通方面產(chǎn)生了很大的吸引力。我們建造了Cloud ML和Cloud IoT團(tuán)隊(duì)。我們收購(gòu)了Apigee、Kaggle、Qwiklabs和其他一些初創(chuàng)公司。我們的技術(shù)開(kāi)發(fā)在整個(gè)行業(yè)都得到了認(rèn)可。谷歌Cloud云服務(wù)在安全、人工智能、開(kāi)放混合云應(yīng)用現(xiàn)代化、G Suite和其他領(lǐng)域都具有獨(dú)特的優(yōu)勢(shì)。我們?cè)谑袌?chǎng)研究公司Gartner的魔力象限報(bào)告和市場(chǎng)研究公司Forrester的Waves報(bào)告中均被認(rèn)為是市場(chǎng)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者。

但是，我真正感到驕傲的地方是：我們的整個(gè)團(tuán)隊(duì)一起合作打造出了所有這些功能。在一開(kāi)始，有人說(shuō)谷歌有很了不起的技術(shù)，但是他們并不相信谷歌會(huì)成為他們的企業(yè)合作伙伴。最近在舊金山舉行的谷歌Cloud Next活動(dòng)中，有超過(guò)2.3萬(wàn)個(gè)人參加，這是2016年參會(huì)人數(shù)的10倍。我們現(xiàn)在有300個(gè)客戶在談?wù)摴雀鐲loud如何幫助變革了他們的業(yè)務(wù)。現(xiàn)在沒(méi)有人質(zhì)疑我們的能力或態(tài)度。

云服務(wù)行業(yè)還處于早期階段，前面還有很大的發(fā)展機(jī)會(huì)。我很喜歡與每個(gè)人共事的經(jīng)歷。我尤其感激我們的客戶、合作伙伴和員工，感謝與你們共事的這三年美好時(shí)光。