Larry Page
Larry Page
Lawrence "Larry" Pageis an American computer scientist and an Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google Inc. with Sergey Brin in 1998...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth26 March 1973
CityEast Lansing, MI
CountryUnited States of America
believe companies cycles hurt initial investors minimize share small suffered
Many companies have suffered from unreasonable speculation, small initial share float, and boom-bust cycles that hurt them and their investors in the long run. We believe that an auction-based IPO will minimize these problems.
believe innovation mobile targeting
We are targeting innovation. We believe mobile applications are essential.
believe thinking organization
Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
business believe long
We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served - as shareholders and in all other ways - by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.
believe technology opposites
We have always tried to concentrate on the long term, and to place bets on technology we believe will have a significant impact over time. It's hard to imagine now, but when we started Google most people thought search was a solved problem and that there was no money to be made apart from some banner advertising. We felt the exact opposite: that search quality was very poor, and that awesome user experiences would clearly make money.
believe want world
For a lot of companies, it's useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that. I personally believe it's better to shoot higher. You don't want to be looking at your competitors. You want to be looking at what's possible and how to make the world better.
accept companies earnings intend larger less line opposite pressure rather steer
Many companies are under pressure to keep their earnings in line with analysts' forecasts. Therefore, they often accept smaller, predictable earnings rather than larger and less predictable returns. Sergey and I feel this is harmful, and we intend to steer in the opposite direction.
hard met needs trying user
We really don't think about it that way. We're trying hard to find user needs that aren't being met at all.
america fastest growing internet latin
Latin America is one of the fastest growing Internet communities in the world,
bad committed company government information instead kinds laws mandate motivation path privacy products protect requests start strong trust users using
Our company relies on having the trust of our users and using that information for that benefit. That's a very strong motivation for us. We're committed to that. If you start to mandate how products are designed, I think that's a really bad path to follow. I think instead we should have laws that protect the privacy of data, for example, from government requests and other kinds of requests.
american-businessman calculate sounds worked
It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.
job work
The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer.
conversation government parameters protect stuff
We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.
bad basically companies people somewhat
Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.