They have powerful nerds with money combined with constant internal reorgs due to backstabbing politics.
"stepped down" is the corporate version of political "to spend more time with his family."
"You don't want me here? Fine! I'll go make my own org with my own cost center and blackjack and subordinates to sleep with. In fact, forget the new org."
Is the internal culture at Google really that toxic? I'd expect the usual backstabbing and empire building to take a back seat to Getting Shit Done® at there of all places.
"stepped down" is the corporate version of political "to spend more time with his family."
"You don't want me here? Fine! I'll go make my own org with my own cost center and blackjack and subordinates to sleep with. In fact, forget the new org."