What’s Google Cloud So Worried About?

What is going on at Google Cloud? Today, Jon, Kevin and Amir had an important story about an executive shakeup involving the departure of Google’s top sales executive in the U.S., Kirsten Kliphouse. You may recall that Google Cloud, after 10 years of trying, is still a distant second to Amazon and Microsoft in the business. 

Google didn’t much like the story and started telling people it was wrong. When we pushed it on why, the company said it was inaccurate because the person replacing Kliphouse was also looking after customer support. OK. But Kliphouse is out. And the new person—Adaire Fox-Martin—is overseeing sales (as well as customer support). End of story.