Tim isn’t going first — Epic has called Don Harrison, Google’s president of global partnerships.

He reports to Google’s chief business officer Philipp Schindler, who, in turn, reports to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Schindler would have been personally required to approve the $147M offer to Epic.

Pichai would not, but we’re seeing an email from 2018 where he suggested that Philipp, Sundar, Ruth [Porat, Google’s CFO], and Kent [Walker, Google’s CLO] should be involved in a broad discussion about the investment.

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