Jon Quast

For one, when you take over at a company as significant, as successful as Alphabet, everything that you do is going to be scrutinized

More than what a founder would be scrutinized, I think.

Because you're not a founder, you're a steward.

You're a steward of something that is incredibly valuable and important.

And how you steward that is extremely consequential.

I mean, you look at Alphabet, right?

They had a lead on AI way before AI was cool.

And they have these Nobel Prize.

For sure.

They got people in the company who have won Nobel Prizes.

The intellectual, technological advances that they have at the company are huge.

To not capitalize on that would be seen as a grave, grave dereliction of duty.

He has really upped the game.

As Dan pointed out,

maybe a little bit late, but at a nice pace here over the past year, especially.

So yeah, I think that Pichai is headed for the Hall of Fame.

Yeah, I agree with that.

Nickel, when he left Chipotle, he kind of exited and left Chipotle in a complicated situation.

And right now at Starbucks, if he leads it to a similar mess, I think he could be headed to the Hall of Shame, whereas he did have a reputation as the top restaurant operator out there.

John, Bob Iger.