Google CEO Larry Page Says "Nothing Seriously Wrong"

After Larry Page bowed out from some public appearances, reader Pigskin-Referee writes with the news that "Google Inc Chief Executive Larry Page has reassured employees about his health, but the company on Friday shed little additional light on an unspecified condition affecting his voice that will sideline him from two high-profile events in the coming weeks. Page told employees in an email on Thursday that there was 'nothing seriously wrong with me,' according to a source who had seen an internal staff memo. The 39-year-old Google co-founder sat out his company's annual shareholders' meeting on Thursday because he had 'lost his voice,' according to Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, who informed attendees of the news at the start of the event."

I've heard that before.....

[Anonymous Coward]

Isn't that what Steve Jobs said in the beginning too?

Robot speak

[WilyCoder]

Lost his voice? That doesn't seem to make Hawking miss any meetings...

Re:I hate shareholders

[ArchieBunker]

Honestly I'm convinced you could replace a typical CEO with either a monkey or magic 8 ball and get similar results.

Re:I hate shareholders

[timeOday]

It's not fair to say that about Larry Page though. He invented page-rank and co-founded google. They were college students and made their own servers in pizza boxes. The worthless CEOs come in later, demanding the same pay as the founders who built the company from nothing.

Re:I hate shareholders

[kiwimate]

And I'm honestly convinced that if the typical Slashdotter or man-on-the-street who makes this kind of asinine comment were given free rein to replace a typical CEO they'd decimate the company's value within a month, if they didn't have half the top executives resign first.

What do you think it actually takes to run a company? Tell me - if it's that easy, this should be trivial. Here, I'll get you started:

* Knowledge of accounting - yes, you need this no matter what industry you're in. You simply MUST understand capital versus expense, A/R and A/P, GAPP, ratios, asset depreciation, etc. Yes, you have a CFO - but you'd better know what they're talking about
* Knowledge of risk management.
* Extremely detailed and extremely broad knowledge of the industry you're in.