>> Your first quote leaves off the important bit: against the headwinds of Google culture. I would also add all of the companies that were bought by Google in

>> Your first quote leaves off the important bit: against the headwinds of Google culture. I would also add all of the companies that were bought by Google in hopes they would ease some of the laser focus on their search/ad business and never panned out and then were subsequently killed by them. I think this one of the overlooked issues they've had. When they've repeatedly tried to venture into other areas by buying smaller companies in hopes they could grow their revenue and create another revenue stream, the failure rate of those companies is pretty staggering. All three of these have not made it easy for them to try and re-brand themselves as anything but a search/ad company.