Sublime

As Lars later told Steven Levy in In the Plex, “We sort of underestimated what we could do.”)

A friend who worked for Google cofounder and CEO Larry Page told me that when teams presented product and business goals to Larry, he would often reply, “What would it take to achieve 100x of what you’re proposing?”

In the Plex,

Esse foi um exemplo de formação de equipes de alto risco, com uma IPO multibilionária em jogo, e investidores, fundadores e executivos debatendo questões difíceis. Mas é justamente nessas situações que um coach de equipe é mais necessário, alguém que pode ver além dos egos individuais e entender o valor que todos os membros combinados criam. O dese

Page and Brin, not yet thirty, pinned a ludicrously broad mission statement to their founding documents: Google would “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” By 2006, Google was applying this mission to anything the internet touched.

Its uncannily effective Internet search product had changed the way people accessed information, changed the way they thought about information.

Bill was the greatest executive coach the world has ever seen. And not an executive coach in the traditional mold, working solely to maximize the performance of individuals; Bill coached teams.

The career of Sundar Pichai is a stretch goal personified. In October 2015, at age forty-three, Sundar became Google’s third CEO. Today he presides over an organization with more than sixty thousand employees and $80 billion in revenues.