Google Lays Off: Google lays off news director Madhav Chinnappa, read his LinkedIn posts – Times of India

Here’s his LinkedIn post:
I am on gardening leave at the moment which allows too much time to contemplate work, career, life etc. In the end, I am proud of what I have been able to achieve during my almost 13 years at Google from:

– #DigitalNewsInitiative (which wasn’t just a Fund – though a wise person did say that it helped kickstart a European media R&D culture – and the product plus training & research elements never got the credit I thought they deserved!) to
– the #googlenewsinitiative Innovation Challenges
– and of course Ludovic Blecher’s brilliant idea: #JERF, the Journalism Emergency Relief Fund which showcased the best of Google: helping where it could when a vulnerable part of the news ecosystem needed it most and involving ~300 Googlers
– and aside from getting #NewsGeist to go global, I am also inordinately proud of somehow convincing the Doodle team to do a Eurovision Doodle!
(as I seem to have forgotten/lost the ability to insert links, please contact me if you have any questions on anything mentioned above or anything else!)
And to be clear, not a single thing I mentioned above could have been achieved without my teammates and colleagues as everything is a team effort. There are too many to mention but they are a special bunch and I will miss them all!
And what now: I am in the privileged position of being able some time to figure that out. In the near term, I have some pressing family issues that need my fuller attention so in the spirit of the Zen proverb that the tea cup must be empty before it can be full, I will take August off then spend September looking after my mum in India and only start thinking about work in October with a view to doing more things in 2024.
Though if you have any ideas or thoughts, please message me as I am all ears and have more time on my hands now!
Thank you if you made it all the way down here and have a lovely summer and take care – Madhav