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Friday, January 18, 2013

Larry Page On Innovation

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“You know, we always have these debates: We have all this money, we have all these people, why aren’t we doing more stuff? You may say that Apple only does a very, very small number of things, and that’s working pretty well for them. But I find that unsatisfying. I feel like there are all these opportunities in the world to use technology to make people’s lives better. At Google we’re attacking maybe 0.1 percent of that space. And all the tech companies combined are only at like 1 percent. That means there’s 99 percent virgin territory. Investors always worry, “Oh, you guys are going to spend too much money on these crazy things.” But those are now the things they’re most excited about—YouTube, Chrome, Android. If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.”

-- Larry Page

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Thermonuclear War?

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People have kept looking for the next Steve Jobs. And several high profile people have volunteered for the role. But the next Steve Jobs is not a Steve Jobs. That would not be original enough. Steve Jobs was a great visionary who assembled teams and made things happen. He was an uber marketeer. But he did not invent something like, say, a search engine. Larry Page is the next big thing.
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