Google culture in its golden era was downstream of the dotcom bust.

A massively profitable business when no one else was doing anything.

Not the Microsoft style "do the same crap as everyone else but in our suite" but "rethink what is possible, do only what no one else could even dream of doing but everyone else wants".

Infrastructure leverage over execution.

The reason that was possible is because they were profitable and there was no one else growing like them.

OpenAI is trying to do the same kind of playbook, but without the necessary preconditions.