You might also look at last week's articles about Tony Fadell and NEST.

Boston Robotics and Nest were both heavily characterized as having issues working with Google proper. And both Nest and now Verily have both been recently characterized as having issues with leadership.

Apparently Tony Fadell told the Dropcam founder that he hadn't 'earned the right' to report to him.

It seems Alphabet companies have a lot of trouble brewing these days.