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
technology people important
As devices multiply and usage changes (many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine), it becomes more and more important to ensure that people can access all of their stuff anywhere.
zero important progress
Being negative is not how we make progress, and the most important things are not zero sum,
worry important privacy
...It's important to distinguish between "worry versus harm" when it came to privacy online.
thinking important privacy
For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.
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.
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.
believe innovation mobile targeting
We are targeting innovation. We believe mobile applications are essential.
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.