Despite early investor praise, Larry Page’s decision to break up Google’s various ventures -- and house them in a holding company called Alphabet is a risky bet. That’s what several
management experts tell veteran Silicon Valley reporter Robert D. Hof. “Alphabet will be successful only if the individual projects and companies can be successful enough on their own to be spun
off into freestanding companies eventually,” Hof writes.
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