Beautiful would be something like...you know, Victorian-esque. This, is a cube. Not even a good one. Cubes aren't really a "beautiful" thing, but they can be used as stark contrast art, such as Tony's stuff: http://www.tonyrosenthal.com/OutdoorCubes.htm
With Alphabet, Page can show investors that the company’s bread-and-butter businesses remain highly profitable, even if the moonshots fail to turn a profit for years on end.
Since its beginning, DefCon has grown from fewer than 100 attendees to reportedly more than 20,000 all of them jammed into two hotels this year to learn the latest hacks and swap techniques.