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Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who were being pushed by their venture investors to find an “adult” to serve as CEO of a young search-engine company, Google.
David M. Rubenstein • How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
On the other end of the spectrum were kids like Larry Page, who would come in and say, “Here’s what I think I can do.” And his proposals were crazy. He’d come into the office and talk about doing something with space tethers or solar kites.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Larry Page and Sergey Brin had figured out how to mine that knowledge before the information retrieval establishment and commercial search engines even realized that it existed.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Page rarely visited YouTube HQ—one person there while he was CEO remembered two trips—but during his rare appearances Page stuck to one edict: make videos load faster. Staff recalled Page stopping meetings to complain about YouTube’s buffering speed, which he once called, to YouTube’s embarrassment, “the biggest problem Google-wide.”
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
Larry was an engineer’s engineer,
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin didn’t set out to create one of the fastest-growing startup companies in history; they didn’t even start out seeking to revolutionize the way we search for information on the web. Their first goal, as collaborators on the Stanford Digital Library Project, was to solve a much smaller problem: how to priorit
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