Google is absolutely nothing like Berkshire Hathaway.<p>While people make the monopoly/conglomerate/holding company analogy, they forget an important difference.<p>Berkshire Hathaways' talent and specialty lies in identifying sound-money businesses that are undervalued, and then making appropriate financial and management changes to bring them at or above their book value.<p>Google, and Alphabet on the other hand is in the business of making highly asymmetric bets on the future. The majority of their gains will come from few investments.<p>Probabilistically they're in two entirely different domains.