1. He keeps a pulse on goings-on: insisting on approving every new
hire — over 30k! to date -- by scanning a compressed version of the
candidate's bio data -- going over one set per week and processing them
in three or four days!
2. He has 'boundless ambition': he believes failure is when you stop attempting the outrageous --
“Even if you fail at your ambitious thing, it’s very hard to fail completely... That’s the thing that people don’t get.”
(throws quotable quotes).
3. He likes people to 'think big' and make their ideas an order of magnitude more ambitious --
In 2003, Google execs debating setting up overseas engineering offices asked him how quickly he'd like Google to grow:
Page: “How many engineers does Microsoft have?”
execs: About 25,000
Page: “We should have a million,” (in all seriousness).
4. He can have really far-fetched ideas!
In the early 2000s, Eric Veach, a Google software engineer was working on the early version of Google advertising system. Page was adamant on having a simple system which didn't require users to do anything more than give their credit card number.
During one session, Veach pointed out, not all countries commonly use credit cards.
Page proposed taking payments appropriate to the home country — in Uzbekistan, Google could take its payment in goats. :)
Veach: “Maybe we can get to that, but first let’s make sure we can take Visa and MasterCard.”
5. Both Page & Sergey Brin went to Montessori schools -- characterized by a spirit of freedom in pursuit of one's interests -- a spirit reflected in Page's pursuit of projects with potential to improve quality of life.
-- lifted shamelessly from 'Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots'
by Steven Levy in Wired Magazine online, April 2011 edition.
which is a shout out to "In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives", copyright © 2011 Steven Levy, to be published by Simon & Schuster in April.
2. He has 'boundless ambition': he believes failure is when you stop attempting the outrageous --
“Even if you fail at your ambitious thing, it’s very hard to fail completely... That’s the thing that people don’t get.”
(throws quotable quotes).
3. He likes people to 'think big' and make their ideas an order of magnitude more ambitious --
In 2003, Google execs debating setting up overseas engineering offices asked him how quickly he'd like Google to grow:
Page: “How many engineers does Microsoft have?”
execs: About 25,000
Page: “We should have a million,” (in all seriousness).
4. He can have really far-fetched ideas!
In the early 2000s, Eric Veach, a Google software engineer was working on the early version of Google advertising system. Page was adamant on having a simple system which didn't require users to do anything more than give their credit card number.
During one session, Veach pointed out, not all countries commonly use credit cards.
Page proposed taking payments appropriate to the home country — in Uzbekistan, Google could take its payment in goats. :)
Veach: “Maybe we can get to that, but first let’s make sure we can take Visa and MasterCard.”
5. Both Page & Sergey Brin went to Montessori schools -- characterized by a spirit of freedom in pursuit of one's interests -- a spirit reflected in Page's pursuit of projects with potential to improve quality of life.
-- lifted shamelessly from 'Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots'
by Steven Levy in Wired Magazine online, April 2011 edition.
which is a shout out to "In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives", copyright © 2011 Steven Levy, to be published by Simon & Schuster in April.
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