1. Joseph Carlson, The Joseph Carlson Show
Tech’s high-flying days are over, and nowhere is that more apparent than at 24-year-old Google, once among the most coveted of places to work. After doubling its headcount in five years, Google now is shedding 12,000 jobs — the largest number in its history. Yet that figure could jump if activist investor Chris Hohn gets his way.
That’s going to raise eyebrows.
“If you’re a Google employee, there’s no one in the world you hate right now more than Chris Hohn,” said Joseph Carlson (pictured), host of The Joseph Carlson Show, which provides guidance on stock purchases, on YouTube.
Hohn controls approximately $20 billion in various companies, and between $6 billion and $7 billion of Alphabet, in particular. This gives him “a lot of sway, a lot of power” over Google, Carlson said on Jan. 23.
“Ultimately management will need to go further,” Hohn wrote in a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai.
He wants Alphabet to cut more jobs.
Learn more here about Hohn as well as what’s happening at Google Cloud.
