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Don’t mean to burst your bubble but if you’ll look at what the founders of Google are saying today you’ll find that they’re on par with Googles current leadership. Then again, we can’t know if they were like this from the start or if it’s just the wealth and power and corrupted them.
Google went public & since before they did that they were (had to be) absolutely dead-set to become a monopoly & exploit that position via experience enshitification (but they had to first make sure they de facto didn't have any competition - launching gmail helped a lot).
There was still a period of a few years where Google was saying "we won't show ads" but was valued on the market into billions (whilst having no profit but promising extreme revenue growth any year now - they were being valued on their potential for ads).
Much like Uber - the strategy is to shovel enough capital for the company to undercut the competition by any means necessary & then squeeze the market.
And founders kept stocks, so they'll say they want Google to kill all puppies in the world, slowly & painfully, if it nets them even more free wealth.
(Free I mean without any labor, just capital ownership.)