Google was a venture-funded company. Being part of that brings an energy to the company.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed.
Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invented an advertising business which has provided great economics that allows us to build the servers, hire the employees, create value.
I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.
Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.
The reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of the self-organizing properties of the web. It's in ecological sustainability. It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy.
I don't write about Google except to insult the company.
Google started out when the dot-com boom was happening. It grew under the radar of big companies that were competing in but basically ignoring search. Then they were able to really invest during the bust for a long time.
Google has long been a leftist company.
The story of Google is just when everyone concluded that a search engine would never make any money, everyone backed out of it, and Google walked into that vacuum and dominated.
Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.