I've actually been wondering about this for years. Nearly every startup I've worked at used Google Apps and put all their strategy documents and trade secrets

I've actually been wondering about this for years. Nearly every startup I've worked at used Google Apps and put all their strategy documents and trade secrets into platforms owned and operated by Google. I'm sure there's something that assuages this concern in the contracts, just as I'm equally sure there's some clause that completely invalidates that and lets Google do whatever they want. I wonder if they actually do mine their data to identify startups for acquisition / competition, they certainly are incentivized to do so.