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The only flaw in such a strategy is that Larry and Sergey control the dominant share of all the voting stock.

If Sergey did not have such agreement, taking anything (even his own code) would be considered company property.

Yes, the split was unusually structured to ensure that Larry & Sergey maintained majority voting rights.

Also in the book, Michael Lewis brings together a panel of HFT technologists to interview Sergey and assess whether anything he took was consequential.

I really hope Sergey and Larry do not have the same disdain for privacy that Mr.

One should really look into works of Russian publicist Sergey Pereslegin.

Well, I expected to get down-voted on HN for even alluding that Google would do something wrong, and for not worshiping Sergey & Larry.

Imagine a case where Google's business tanks, shareholders wish to oust Larry Page, Larry & Sergey obviously won't budge, but activist shareholders manage to get Eric Schmidt on board.

Even our hero Sergey Brin chose a 26 year old project manager over his family and lead Android engineer.

Eric + virtually all of the class A shares is enough to get voting control of the company (when the class C shares were created, it was because the voting rights of Larry + Sergey were just barely over 50%).

But the scenario still holds if Sergey is the defector - it'd have to be him (230M votes) + 160M Class A shares (roughly 60% of the company) against Larry + Eric.

For instance, I suspect such type of analysis would have classified web search as a no go domain when Sergey Brin and Larry Page started working on the google web search algorithm.

We pluralize company names in many cases: Goldmans, Tescos, etc, and refer to them plurally (so, "Goldmans are seeking to ruin Sergey" vs.

He'd basically built the Apple I in its entirety and shown it off at Homebrew before Steve Jobs said "Let's build a company around this and sell it." Also, Larry was always the primary driver behind Google; it started out as his thesis project, PageRank is named for him, and he'd already started crawling the web by the time Sergey joined.

Before I moved down to MIT, I studied with Sergey, so the name is not at all coincidental.

Sergey Brin donates a half-million a year grant to the Wikimedia foundation & Google has also donated a few million.

My best friend works at Goldman, and used to sit next to Sergey.