11 Sergey Brin Quotes That Reveal How Google Became One Of The Most Powerful Companies In The World
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Sergey Brin helped build one of the most successful technology companies in the world: Google.
Today, Google does a little bit of everything — from email, to wearable technology, and smartphone software.
But that wasn’t always the case. When Brin and CEO Larry Page built Google, they focused on one specific problem: revolutionizing the way people search the web.
Here are a few quotes from Sergey Brin that provide some insight into Google’s origins and the general mindset behind the company.
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“To me, this is about preserving history and making it available to everyone.”
“We believed we could build a better search. We had a simple idea that not all pages are created equal. Some are more important.”
“Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.”
“We wouldn’t survive if people didn’t trust us.”
Said during Re/code’s Code Conference
“We want Google to be the third half of your brain.”
Said during the company’s Google Instant event in 2010.
“We saw that a thousand results weren’t necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.”
Playboy Interview: Google Guys (via the Securities and Exchange Commission)
“Ultimately you want to have the entire world’s knowledge connected directly to your mind.”
Playboy Interview: Google Guys (via the Securities and Exchange Commission)
“I feel there’s an existential angst among young people. I didn’t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.”
“When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.”
“You always hear the phrase, money doesn’t buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it’s not really true.”
“We have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good – always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, ‘Don’t be evil’ seems the easiest way to summarize it.”
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