{"id":335603,"date":"2017-03-12T04:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/03\/11\/alphabet-project-loon-ceo-departs\/21|21879973"},"modified":"2017-03-12T04:58:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T20:58:00","slug":"alphabets-internet-balloon-chief-leaves-after-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/alphabets-internet-balloon-chief-leaves-after-6-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet&#8217;s internet balloon chief leaves after 6 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s Project Loon is running into some figurative turbulence in addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/09\/25\/google-project-loon-ai\/\">literal kind<\/a>. Tom Moore, the satellite executive who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/08\/24\/google-hires-satellite-exec-project-loon\/\">brought on as CEO<\/a> to help Project Loon become a full-fledged business, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-03-10\/alphabet-swaps-project-loon-leaders-after-six-month-stint-for-latest-ceo\">has left<\/a> the leadership position after just 6 months. It&#8217;s not clear why he&#8217;s on the way out (neither he nor Alphabet are commenting), but he&#8217;s being replaced by Alastair Westgarth, a wireless industry veteran best known for turning startups into viable companies. His &#8220;vision&#8221; for the internet balloon project matches the strategy of Alphabet&#8217;s X division, &#8220;approaching huge programs, at scale, to improve the lives of millions or billions of people,&#8221; the company says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/dims-shared\/dims3\/GLOB\/crop\/4256x2835+549+132\/resize\/1600x1066!\/format\/jpg\/quality\/85\/http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/hss\/storage\/midas\/35fb507539de531b65c64305c806ca34\/201131372\/170637497.jpg\" \/>Alphabet&#039;s Project Loon is running into some figurative turbulence in addition to the literal kind. Tom Moore, the satellite executive who was brought on as CEO to help Project Loon become a full-fledged business, has left the leadership position af&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-335603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}