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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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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This amendment would actually grant one company an unregulated monopoly.
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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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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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It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.