Not really that hard to believe, considering where the "don't be evil" company got part of its initial funding from [0] and what these funding outfits have been up to themselves since then [1].

[0] https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-n...