If this article is to be believed, shortsightedness and bottom-line-thinking are contradicting what Alphabet is suppose to be. >Alphabet is about businesses pr

If this article is to be believed, shortsightedness and bottom-line-thinking are contradicting what Alphabet is suppose to be. >Alphabet is about businesses prospering through strong leaders and independence... Sergey and I are seriously in the business of starting new things. Alphabet will also include our X lab, which incubates new efforts like Wing, our drone delivery effort. We are also stoked about growing our investment arms, Ventures and Capital, as part of this new structure.[1] From the Alphabet website, to this article: >Aaron Edsinger, director of robotics at Google in San Francisco, said that he had been trying to work with Boston Dynamics to create a low-cost electric quadruped robot >In the meeting, Rosenberg said, “we as a startup of our size cannot spend 30-plus percent of our resources on things that take ten years," and that "there’s some time frame that we need to be generating an amount of revenue that covers expenses and (that) needs to be a few years. Focusing on building revenue is good for established companies, sometimes even for company devisions. Not always useful for startups (imagine if FB bootsrapped), which in my understanding, was what Alphabet was trying to incubate. > “There’s excitement from the tech press, but we’re also starting to see some negative threads about it being terrifying, ready to take humans’ jobs,” wrote Courtney Hohne, a director of communications at Google and the spokeswoman for Google X. Hohne went on to ask her colleagues to “distance X from this video,” and wrote, “we don’t want to trigger a whole separate media cycle about where BD really is at Google. Ignorance aside, you can glean more of the poor distinction between Alphabet and Google here. X[2] is suppose to be a separate company from Google, under Alphabet, yet it is referred to as Google X here. Even Courtney Hohne, a director of communication, lists herself as working at Google, not at X or at Alphabet. This confusion between the two hints at larger problems, which bodes poorly for Alphabet's lofty aspirations. [1]http://abc.xyz http://abc.xyz [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(company)