I don't think it actually ended up landing in the hands of like the individual Googler. I think it ended up just so diffuse through the middle management setup that the company didn't realize how sticky it became to make decisions and do things. If you have a ton of money and you have a big problem space and your competitors are rich, you do a lot of stuff. So these companies are always going to kind of expand outwards.

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