> Google actively sucks at every business except floating down the Mississippi of cash. > It would be dramatic, but in terms of the bottom line it would be pre

> Google actively sucks at every business except floating down the Mississippi of cash. > It would be dramatic, but in terms of the bottom line it would be pretty close to irrelevant. I'm assuming you're talking about all of the people in the driverless cars group, android, etc. Two things at work here: 1. As a business their size you either try to take every single dollar that floats down the mississippi or you make the river bigger. I would argue that pretty much every strategy decision that Google makes is to do those two things (example - driverless cars means more people using the internet - more people using the internet means more search - more search means more adwords. aka the mississippi gets bigger) 2. Ubiquity. Starbucks sucks, but it's on every corner. Google's strategy is no different.