Larry Page

“A very dangerous thing to do is to attack companies that we, that our internal term is the new incumbents. And so it's one thing to, like, go attack, you know, a tech company that's been in business for 50 years that's on its sixth CEO or something like that. …”

“If they get one or two or three of these moonshots to pay off, the total return on their capital will be so much higher Right, than how any of the big established companies that are being more responsible can return, and so as a, as an alphabet shareholder, I …”

“If you're a first-time founder, first-time founder, it's almost always better to start with angels or with the early seed investors. It's, again, contrary to myth and archetype, it's very hard for the first-time founder to raise, raise a straight A round. It's…”

“When you're a company, no matter how visionary you are, I mean, I think Zuckerberg and Larry Page, they're extremely visionary and they're extremely long-term thinking, but ultimately they do try to manage probably to a two to five year horizon or something, r…”

“Larry and Sergey were like, we hate that. We're not going to do that. And it was a moral rejection of that business model that eventually led them down the path of, we want ads to be as effective and as useful as search results. And that was the beginning of G…”

“Peter Thiel would have been probably, they'd be more than 20 years earlier, probably would have been a Supreme Court jurist, right? Probably would have been like, you know, chief judge of the Supreme Court or something. Paul Graham would have been a professor.…”

“Larry Page apparently internally said, I'm happy to go bankrupt rather than lose this race. And I think that is the mentality for sure at Google and perhaps Meta. It's just seen as existential and you have to win.”