how we canto discuss is bradsh big things stone, bryan weiser, then leg, and om malik. why did they have to go this far? ever since larry was appointed ceo of couple of years ago, he has shown a little bit face for the grittier responsibilities of being chief executive, talking to shareholders, being on the quarterly conference call, talking to regulators and testifying before congress that is why gradually we has handoff more responsibility. what this allows him to do, and that sergei has already been doing, is to look at the next twist in technology and let him handle all the stuff he hasn't wanted to deal with. it is not an easy job he is taking on. m: i do feel that classic goodwill is under attack for the first time in a very systematic way from all corners. people do not think i can county the attack is from facebook, from apple, from other internet services. google is a company that does not do anything very well. emily: google is a company that can do anything very well? om: because search. they won the categories. look at search performance. look at how we as h

emily: for more, i am joined by bryan weiser in portland. and my guest redstone. -- brad stone.lphabet now has $70 billion on its balance sheet to spend. how would they spend it? om, you had a few suggestions. om: i would say there was talk about google and tesla in the past. ashlee vance bloomberg wrote a book about it. it may actually make a lot of sense for google to actually take a substantial position in tesla, not exactly buy it outright, the let's say google owns 20% of the company. it removes pressure from wall street, on the company to deliver results. i think the technology needs some long-term thinking. tesla is not something that can be judged on a three-month increment. from that standpoint, i think that would make a lot of sense. emily: i wonder, is "t" for tesla or for twitter? i spoke with chris sacca a couple months ago about his opinions. he thought that twitter would be an instant fit for google. they haven't done in social well, i think we can all agree. brad: i don't know well, but it has been in decline for the past few months. it certainly becomes more pla

emily: for more, i am joined by pivotal research group senior research analyst bryan weiser in portlandick.brad stone and om mal alphabet now has $70 billion on its balance sheet to spend. how would they spend it? you've had some suggestions. om: i would say there was talk about google and tesla in the past. there was a book about it. he pointed out that there was some talk of google buying tesla and it may actually make a lot of sense for google to actually take a substantial position in tesla, not entirely by outright, outrighttirely buy it , but let's say the google owns 20% of that company. it removes pressure on wall street, on the company to deliver short-term results. i think the transition we are going through and technology needs some long-term thinking. tesla is not something that can be judged on a three-month increment. from that standpoint, that would make a lot of sense. emily: is "t" for tesla or for twitter? i spoke to someone a few months about this very thing. he suggested twitter would be a good fit for google. they have not done social well at all, we can agree. but