Imagine that you are the personal advisor to Larry Page. Now describe in a few words about what is the core competence that you want to be established in the Founder’s Imprint? What would be the shared values and organization culture that would be the defining elements of what Google/Alphabet stands for?

      

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Alphabet Eyes New Frontiers We'd like to have a bigger impact on the world by doing more things. - Larry Page, Cofounder and CEO of Alphabet¹ In June 2016, Tony Fadell announced that he was "leaving the nest" after six years at the helm of Nest Labs, an Alphabet subsidiary that made smart household appliances. "I'm a guy who's at the beginning of things," he told the New York Times. "I don't like to do maintenance mode. It's not what gets me out of bed."2 The news followed press reports that revealed turmoil at Nest and raised questions about Google's recent decision to restructure into Alphabet, a holding company. When the reorganization had first been announced in August 2015, experts said Nest would be among the main beneficiaries. "Nest and the rest gain more freedom to spend money, acquire other companies, etc. without having to try to explain how such costs are benefiting the core ad business when they clearly were not," one analyst noted.³ "[Alphabet's] new stand-alone companies will have more freedom to take risks," another observer commented.4 But when internal problems at Nest and other subsidiaries surfaced in the press, observers began to fault the reorganization. "Google co- founders, now Alphabet honchos, really want to replicate their search engine's success across a range of industries with operations run like startups," one observer wrote. "To do that, though, they have to face a dilemma inherent in their structure. That is, they must find execs willing to work within Alphabet's corporate umbrella, and teams willing to work with their chosen execs."5 The makeup and management of Alphabet's diverse collection of subsidiaries had been in flux since the restructuring announcement. In August 2015, a day after Google announced that it would reorganize, gaming subsidiary Niantic, an early "autonomous business unit" under Google," said it would become an independent company. In December 2015, life sciences subsidiary Verily announced the creation of a new surgical solutions venture that would also spin off. Also that month, Bloomberg reported that Alphabet would soon create a separate subsidiary to house the company's self-driving car project, which had been the founding project of Google's X lab. News outlets reported on a growing culture of fiscal discipline at Alphabet, where subsidiaries were now being asked to pay the parent company for shared services. 10 And in March 2016, Alphabet's robotics subsidiary, Boston Dynamics, was reportedly put up for sale.¹1 Alphabet Eyes New Frontiers We'd like to have a bigger impact on the world by doing more things. - Larry Page, Cofounder and CEO of Alphabet¹ In June 2016, Tony Fadell announced that he was "leaving the nest" after six years at the helm of Nest Labs, an Alphabet subsidiary that made smart household appliances. "I'm a guy who's at the beginning of things," he told the New York Times. "I don't like to do maintenance mode. It's not what gets me out of bed."2 The news followed press reports that revealed turmoil at Nest and raised questions about Google's recent decision to restructure into Alphabet, a holding company. When the reorganization had first been announced in August 2015, experts said Nest would be among the main beneficiaries. "Nest and the rest gain more freedom to spend money, acquire other companies, etc. without having to try to explain how such costs are benefiting the core ad business when they clearly were not," one analyst noted.³ "[Alphabet's] new stand-alone companies will have more freedom to take risks," another observer commented.4 But when internal problems at Nest and other subsidiaries surfaced in the press, observers began to fault the reorganization. "Google co- founders, now Alphabet honchos, really want to replicate their search engine's success across a range of industries with operations run like startups," one observer wrote. "To do that, though, they have to face a dilemma inherent in their structure. That is, they must find execs willing to work within Alphabet's corporate umbrella, and teams willing to work with their chosen execs."5 The makeup and management of Alphabet's diverse collection of subsidiaries had been in flux since the restructuring announcement. In August 2015, a day after Google announced that it would reorganize, gaming subsidiary Niantic, an early "autonomous business unit" under Google," said it would become an independent company. In December 2015, life sciences subsidiary Verily announced the creation of a new surgical solutions venture that would also spin off. Also that month, Bloomberg reported that Alphabet would soon create a separate subsidiary to house the company's self-driving car project, which had been the founding project of Google's X lab. News outlets reported on a growing culture of fiscal discipline at Alphabet, where subsidiaries were now being asked to pay the parent company for shared services. 10 And in March 2016, Alphabet's robotics subsidiary, Boston Dynamics, was reportedly put up for sale.¹1

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