OT - Vint Cerf joins Google

Fri Sep 9 09:09:15 UTC 2005

Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> 
> On Sep 8, 2005, at 5:09 PM, Mark Bodley wrote:
> 
>> His name has never "hurt" a companies stock price. Remember MCI--Um,
>> Worldcom. Remembering.. Um lost a ton of money... just remember.  
>> First time
>> I have noticed Google do anything so blatant. Time to sell Google?  
>> Are they
>> spending money on figure heads?
> 
> Dr. Cerf is still well in possession of his enormous faculties and  has 
> an excellent grasp of both business and technical issues.  He is  an 
> asset to any company he joins.
> 
> Figure Head?  Possibly.  But certainly not an empty one.

I'm not so sure he still up to it.  His performance as ICANN chairman
is not exactly stellar...

-- 
Andre