Sanjay has been Google's most tenured IC since forever and is basically as immune to politics as you can be in a megacorp.
He is also rich beyond dreams of avarice and can do basically whatever he wants, but apparently he decided to go hack some more with his buddy Jeff. There's a famous New Yorker story about them: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...