I've seen alternate stories about GV which seem to want to have it both ways – some that imply an ability for GV to bring in Google staff/expertise to help investments, and others vaguely implying a more strict separation.
...touts "Uparallelled Access to Google", and supposedly GV won its share in Uber's round with the help of direct lobbying from Larry Page.
So GV may be ostensibly empowered to seek return without regard to Google's other objectives... but it doesn't appear there's a "Chinese Wall". If theoretically the GV partners wanted to do something Larry Page absolutely didn't want, I'm not sure I'd bet on the GV partners having their way.
> “If a company comes in the door and it looks like something important for Google to acquire,” says Maris, “we will defer to Google’s corporate development department to take a look.”
