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I can tell you emphatically that Vijaya indeed had a lot of day-to-day exposure to and involvement with policy, having seen her in action directly.


I’m sure there was exposure and involvement, but I would find it incredibly hard to believe if the brute force of the work was not a group of lawyers, with that exposure and involvement being easily exchanged for another, or even more hands off, CEO.


Or to put it another way, if a tech CEO is the lead for crafting foreign policy, something is very very wrong with the org.


So, Vijaya wasn’t the CEO. She was general council and head of policy.

Here’s her Wikipedia page, if you’d like to brush up on any other basic demographic details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijaya_Gadde


Oh jeeze, I had the wrong person in my head. My bad.




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