Larry Page

“And she told me that the first night of the weekend, so like the first event, the first time that they actually met, was at drinks at the British Bankers Club in Menlo Park.”

“Larry's a different generation and a very different personality than Mark Zuckerberg, but you should think about his ambition and his desire to build a huge world-changing company. At the same level as him.”

“And Vinod is on the board of Excite. And so somehow Larry and Sergey, and I think they bring Scott along, get a meeting with Vinod and they hammer out a deal that Excite is going to license this back rub search technology from the two of them for about a milli…”

“If Larry and Sergey had met and started working on this a few years earlier, it would have been Yahoo! Because the web was just so much smaller. Like, you didn't need a technology-based search engine to understand it. And then if they'd started a few years lat…”

“The zany parts of Google are sort of Sergey's DNA, and the really honed products, and products that make the business work are a little bit more Larry's DNA, but to be honest, there's incredible overlap everywhere between the two of them.”

“It is ironic that the things that were being ranked were web pages, because the actual page in page rank is named for Larry Page, not for the pages they would rank.”

“John Doerr had very begrudgingly extracted a promise from Larry and Sergey to hire a quote-unquote professional CEO.”

“He writes it in Java and it's like super buggy and basically doesn't work. So they ask one of their friends there at Stanford, a guy named Scott Hassan, to help them. Scott's a better coder than Larry and Sergey is. So he codes it up in Python and it actually …”

“The name is Whatbox. Whatbox? Whatbox. It rolls right off the tongue. You know, it's a box that you type stuff into, sort of a question. But they decided that it sounded too close to a porn site, so they decided not to go with it.”

“So importantly, Larry and Sergey insisted that, okay, if we have to have ads on here, they need to be text only. We can't serve images and banner ads like everybody else does, because that'll slow down the page.”

“There's one person that we met in this whole process who we think meets our bar, who we would be willing to come in and hire as our CEO here at Google. Oh God, who is it? Steve Jobs.”

“I think there's this perception today that Larry and Sergey were these, like, bumbling academic guys who weren't really business-minded, and Google was a research project, and this all sort of happened by accident that they built the best business of all time.…”

“In 2001, famously pre-IPO at Google, Larry Page feels like Google is moving a little bit too slow and gets rid of all engineering managers.”

“So they settle on a plan to order 40,000 GPUs. From Nvidia. For a cost of a hundred and thirty million dollars. That's a big enough price tag that the request gets elevated to Larry Page, who personally approves it, even though finance wanted to kill it, becau…”

“Larry and Sergey control the company. They have been quoted repeatedly saying that they would rather go bankrupt than lose at AI.”

“Sebastian's concept of bringing these computer science machine learning academics into Google as contractors or part-time interns, basically letting them keep their academic posts and work on big projects for Google's products internally, goes so well that by …”

“He and some, I think it was grad students, were in the process of starting a company, had term sheets from Benchmark and Sequoia.”