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“It is just as hard to start a small boutique thing that means nothing in the world and build it as it is to build a world dominating monster. It's no more work to do the latter, so we were never interested in anything but the latter.”
Evan Armstrong • In Defense of Starting a Bad Business
As the company expanded, Larry continued to kick off each quarter with
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Page was not a social animal—people who talked to him often wondered if there were a jigger of Asperger’s in the mix—and could unnerve people by simply not talking.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Andy Grove was a rare hybrid, a supreme technologist and the greatest chief executive of his day. We sorely miss him.
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Google was a company built on the values of its founders, who harbored ambitions to build a powerful corporation that would impact the entire world, at the same time loathing the bureaucracy and commitments that running such a company would entail.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
As Lars later told Steven Levy in In the Plex, “We sort of underestimated what we could do.”)
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Andy Grove will always be my model of CEO competence. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, wrote the best management book I’ve ever read (High Output Management), and tirelessly refined his craft.