Alphabet says Fiber president Dennish Kish and VP of Access division Milo Medin are leaving the division but remaining at the company
Please read responsibly. Do not consume Login … Abner Li / 9to5Google : Alphabet reassigns two veteran Access executives as slim down of division continues
Context & Ripple Effects
Access has been in near-continuous leadership flux since Google halted the Fiber rollout and CEO Craig Barratt stepped down in late 2016. Gregory McCray was brought in that February only to exit five months later, and Dinesh Jain later arrived as the unit's third CEO in under two years.
Kish and Medin were the veterans who stayed through that churn; their reassignment out of the division — while remaining inside Alphabet — reads as the latest step in the spending discipline Ruth Porat enforced across Other Bets like Fiber.
First-order effects
- Access loses its two longest-tenured operators just as Dinesh Jain takes over, leaving the new CEO without the executives who knew Fiber's buildout history best.
Second-order effects
- Cities and partners weighing Fiber deals get another signal that Alphabet's commitment is narrowing to economics over expansion, consistent with the halt-and-lean posture since Barratt's exit.
Third-order effects
- Alphabet is pruning Other Bets by reassignment and attrition rather than shutdowns — the same playbook later visible when Verily cut roughly 15% of staff in 2023 — keeping talent in-house while shrinking the divisions themselves.
The trend: Alphabet is winding down its ambitious broadband bets through steady executive churn and headcount discipline rather than dramatic exits.