Google was an M&A grandmaster for the better part of a decade, with most of their success outside of their search engine and Gmail coming from writing checks. They bought their mobile operating system Android in 2005, YouTube in 2006, DoubleClick in 2007, and the pay-per-click contextual ad platform Applied Semantics in 2003. However, when a company gets huge and the founders are ten times ahead of the next closest competitor, as Google was with Facebook, you can get lazy. While Google was busy building self-driving cars and high-speed internet balloons, Zuckerberg grabbed hundreds of millions
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