From: GlobalPost - Google scared this 27-year-old entrepreneur - Matt Lynley March 28, 2012 (edited)
Google Drive, is an online storage service not yet released.
When rumors of its existence popped up, it spooked Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, which was an all-purpose online storage company.
Levie changed direction. He turned his company into online enterprise storage service and now it's worth more than $500 million.
Why didn't Google scare him out of business?
Google has lost its touch. Google Wave and Google Buzz were flops after drumming up a ton of excitement.
What happened to Google?
Aaron Levie, CEO of Box says: Google is trying to do too much. It's fighting wars with Facebook, Microsoft and Apple — and it just isn't killing it in any one specific space.
Box is already way ahead in the enterprise. Google will probably be more geared toward consumers, and Google isn't too interested in jumping into a spot that's not already occupied with Apple, Microsoft or Facebook.
From: The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson - Harvard Business Review, April, 2012 (edited)
Near the end of his life, Jobs was visited at home by Larry Page, who was about to resume control of Google, the company he had cofounded.
Jobs gave him some advice.
“The main thing I stressed was focus. What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down.
"They’re turning you into Microsoft. They’re causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.”
Page followed the advice. In January 2012 he told employees to focus on just a few priorities, such as Android and Google+, and to make them beautiful the way Jobs would have done.