Given this is "according to an email viewed by Bloomberg News", I can't help but be reminded of the "An Anatomy of a Bitcoin Price Manipulation" article that was posted here recently.
The first thing that came to mind when I started reading the article. Not saying the information is false, but there is very good reason to take these types of bullish FAANG-related crypto news with a grain of salt.
Rumors like this seem to come in droves whenever Bitcoin prices tumble.
I can believe that Google hired a distributed technologies lead somewhere. Spinning it as blockchain/crypto seems to be the work of journalists trying to make it sound more interesting to the average viewer (more clicks)