Larry's standard M.O. Hire and empower megalomaniacs because he thinks everything runs too slow and the right way to speed it up is to act like a startup, with

Larry's standard M.O. Hire and empower megalomaniacs because he thinks everything runs too slow and the right way to speed it up is to act like a startup, with one huge personality driving everything. He tried it with Andy/Android, Vic/G+, and Conrad/Verily, among lots of other places. It doesn't work very well, but it looks like it has great 'velocity' so he's happy.