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How Google controls Apple [Conflicts Of Interest]
January 7th, 2008 at 4:46 pmSource:Valleywag
It would take a lot to pull San Francisco’s bloggers out of their default Starbucks habitats, but with a new, cheap line of espresso drinks and its free Wi-Fi, McDonald’s may well yet lure poor newsfeed slaves to its golden arches. While the constant aroma of fried food may not be the most appealing work environment, neither is the modern-day Starbucks.
When is the last time an outpost of the latte empire captured Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz’s vision of “a ‘third place’ where people gather between home and work and feel some of the romance of the European cafe.” In fact, the ease with which McDonald’s has entered the gourmet-coffee arena proves that Schultz’s “third place” is little more than a fast-food joint. Unfortunately for the ubiquitous coffee joint, Mickey D’s has been in the fast-food game much, much longer.
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Some guy: So, you gonna hit the tables while you’re here?
VC: Gambling is my job. When I come to Vegas, I hit the spa.
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Buried deep in Ken Auletta’s magnum opus on Google in the New Yorker: Half of Apple’s board of directors are either Google board members or senior advisors to the company. Is there a better example of Silicon Valley’s inbred power circles? The overlappers: Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Genentech CEO Art Levinson, both on Google’s and Apple’s board; and Google advisors Bill Campbell, the chairman of Intuit, and Al Gore, the former VP turned venture capitalist, both of whom serve on Apple’s board. One wonders how Apple manages to have a board meeting these days, given Google’s broad reach into markets of interest to Apple, like cell phones, online video, and Web applications.
