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
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.
google trying needs
We try to, when you come to Google, fulfill that need that you have as quickly as possible.
people needs way
You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.
technology needs revolutionary
Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
done execution needs
You need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else.
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.
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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.
believe innovation mobile targeting
We are targeting innovation. We believe mobile applications are essential.
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Latin America is one of the fastest growing Internet communities in the world,
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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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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.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.