Companies often become a reflection of the personality of their leadership. Though this factor should be strongest when the company is the smallest/youngest. Th

Companies often become a reflection of the personality of their leadership. Though this factor should be strongest when the company is the smallest/youngest. Their strengths, their weaknesses, their tastes. Google would be just as prone to this, for good or bad, as Apple or Microsoft or Oracle. In fact, I think you could write the same kind of article about those other companies, except picking a different area or two where they seem to have a "blind spot", even if it isn't really accidental, but a matter of strategy or taste.