> But once you achieve market dominance, your priorities have to shift. This is true, but I think you're mischaracterizing the required shift, and assuming thi

> But once you achieve market dominance, your priorities have to shift. This is true, but I think you're mischaracterizing the required shift, and assuming this requirement is what's causing Google's problems today. A company does eventually need to make a shift from "fast and experimental" to "responsible and steady". However this shift is entirely orthogonal from "focus on the users" becoming "focus on the bottom line and year over year growth". Just because they're following the same path as other large tech companies have, doesn't mean this is inevitable. Instead it means they failed to learn the proper lessons. As a sibling comment points out, there was the attitude "but Google is special so that won't happen", when instead it should have been "to keep Google special, we need to work really hard on preventing that from happening".