Pichette

But we heard and took in every syllable of every word Pichette uttered as the snarling, embittered, disappointed, and finally mortal King Henry IV.

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“It was like a great table tennis game,” says Pichette.

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“It was a meaningful savings,” says Pichette, while not sharing the number.

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Pichette was at the end of a long day of a tough labor negotiation, and Page called him to have their first discussion ever.

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“Larry and Sergey think that engineering and computer science can make a big difference in the world,” says CFO Patrick Pichette.

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But Pichette told the OC that it still made sense to cut.

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One of the first puppies Pichette helped drown was a virtual-reality-style communications program called Lively.

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“We had a couple places where we had full staff, full chef, and nobody in there,” says Pichette.

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Pichette shared the details of the negotiation and was surprised to be drawn into a problem-solving negotiation in which Page—theoretically a naïf when it came to labor, since Google has no union employees—intuitively grasped the dynamics.

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“We have the best water in the world here in Mountain View,” Pichette said.

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