I don't agree with your logic of Sales/Ops guy -> "all strategic decisions will be made by Google and passed down to the subsidiary". Dennis Woodside is a very

I don't agree with your logic of Sales/Ops guy -> "all strategic decisions will be made by Google and passed down to the subsidiary". Dennis Woodside is a very respected and capable executive at Google. He's the kind of guy that would have probably left Google for his own CEO gig if the Motorola opportunity hadn't come available. Just because he came from the Sales org internally doesn't mean that he somehow won't have the autonomy to make strategic decisions!