Maybe interested isn't the right term. Profitability was seen as a necessary evil. Something that is required but should more be happen stance... a natural evol

Maybe interested isn't the right term. Profitability was seen as a necessary evil. Something that is required but should more be happen stance... a natural evolution of the real work swes did. What this meant culturally is that Google became a company where technical merit alone is what was rewarded. In my 15+ years of working for the company, not once did I touch a budget. The teams that did handle that sort of stuff were always made to plead their cases to engineering instead of it being the other way around.