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Ok, just for mr. Brin then:

"Services should be composable or sooner or later we'll get a competitor that gets this who will kill us."

I hope that accurately summarizes the essential bits, if you disagree or can shorten it further feel free to correct.

If there was one thing that pre-saged the decline of any large entity then it was probably the management being surrounded with people that agree with the management, and having their ears closed to the rest.

Someone that disagrees with you, even if it is verbose is worth 10x more of your attention than someone that agrees with you. Why? Because in disagreement you will find knowledge, alternative viewpoints and advancement, in agreement only confirmation.

Worst case he could have asked one of his underlings to summarize it for him and hope that nothing of the message got lost.