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This is an incredible move on Google's part. Uber can be seen as the physical arm of Google in meatspace; imagine having your flight information come up in Goog

This is an incredible move on Google's part. Uber can be seen as the physical arm of Google in meatspace; imagine having your flight information come up in Google Now with a button to summon an Uber car. I look into the future and I primarily see "Google".

ngoel36 13y ago
From my understanding, Google and Google Ventures are 100% independent.
- cyanbane 13y ago
  Minus those 6 characters, of course. Those 6 characters mean a lot to everyone outside that bit of knowledge.
- gojomo 13y ago
  I've seen alternate stories about GV which seem to want to have it both ways – some that imply an ability for GV to bring in Google staff/expertise to help investments, and others vaguely implying a more strict separation. This page... http://www.googleventures.com/investing http://www.googleventures.com/investing ...touts "Uparallelled Access to Google", and supposedly GV won its share in Uber's round with the help of direct lobbying from Larry Page. So GV may be ostensibly empowered to seek return without regard to Google's other objectives... but it doesn't appear there's a "Chinese Wall". If theoretically the GV partners wanted to do something Larry Page absolutely didn't want, I'm not sure I'd bet on the GV partners having their way.
- canttestthis 13y ago
  Not 100% apparently. > “If a company comes in the door and it looks like something important for Google to acquire,” says Maris, “we will defer to Google’s corporate development department to take a look.” http://techcrunch.com/2009/04/04/the-google-ventures-cheat-sheet/ http://techcrunch.com/2009/04/04/the-google-ventures-cheat-s...