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
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This amendment would actually grant one company an unregulated monopoly.
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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
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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.
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Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.
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How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?
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If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.
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There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions.
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There's lots of technology you can use to deal with those issues. There might be an adult section, or something like that. I don't think that is going to be a big issue.
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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.
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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.
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We really don't think about it that way. We're trying hard to find user needs that aren't being met at all.
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We are targeting innovation. We believe mobile applications are essential.
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Over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.
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I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.