Google was founded by two computer scientists, helmed by a former electrical engineer, and stacked to the rafters with mathematicians and statisticians. Their original investors were exactly the same types.
Can anyone think of another type of firm that fits this general description? That's right people - hedge funds!
Can you imagine a visual designer walking into a hedge fund and expecting free creative reign? It's absolutely naive. They were working for a bunch of quants and numbers people that are turning the online advertisement industry into a derivatives trading market.
Read that last sentence again.
Google is Wall St. West without suits or ties, I don't know why more people don't understand this better. They're blinded by bright colors I guess.