On Wednesday, Alphabet, Google's parent company, reported its first-ever $100 billion quarter. Revenue rose 16 percent to $102.3 billion. Net income jumped 33 percent to $34.98 billion. Those are not the numbers of a company whose main business is being disrupted. It's more like the numbers of a company that's quietly figuring out how to change with the behavior of its users.
"Freedom encourages you to try things," Eamonn said. "I set up a company with a few other colleagues back in 1998. And then we set up a consulting company that was doing the same sort of thing we were working on, but via ourselves and for customers in Ireland. It was really good fun. Tough, but you learn a lot doing that."