Netizen: Larry Page

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Friday, August 23, 2013

Ballmer's Successor

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I think the next CEO can not be an outsider. For a company like Microsoft the next CEO necessarily has to come from inside, just my opinion. And the cloud and enterprise vice president Satya Nadella would be a decent choice. The next CEO has to be about the future, not the past.

Or Microsoft could pull a Yahoo, and bring in Vic Gundotra, a former Microsoft soldier. Gundotra just might bite, since Larry Page is just getting started and Vic might already have hit the glass ceiling at Google. Gundotra's Microsoft past and Google present is an amazing combination. And many would say Microsoft has also had the Yahoo problem: it is widely considered a has been company. The shine just is not there anymore.

@vicgundotra You should become Microsoft CEO.
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) August 23, 2013

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Superphone

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A smartphone is a smartphone, but what is a superphone? I guess you take the smartness for granted, and build immense capabilities. I'd like my superphone to have a super battery. That would be the first thing. A battery that lasts for 24 hours even when put through non stop super use. And recharges itself in five minutes.

Time for More Superphone Talk From Larry Page — And Google Earnings, Too

its battery life, and its ability to withstand drops from great heights. .... Think about your device. Battery life is a huge issue. You shouldn’t have to worry about constantly recharging your phone. When you drop your phone, it shouldn’t go splat. Everything should be a ton faster and easier. There’s real potential to invent new and better experiences. ..... you shouldn’t need to carry a charger around with you to make it through the day. If your kid spills their drink on your tablet, the screen shouldn’t die. And when you drop your phone, it shouldn’t shatter

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

Thermonuclear War?

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Google CEO Page on Apple’s ‘thermonuclear’ Android war: ‘How well is that working?’
Google’s (GOOG) Larry Page Unimpressed by Apple’s (AAPL) “Thermonuclear War” Against Android
Where’s your “thermonuclear war” now, Apple? – Larry Page on Android, Apple, driverless cars and secret experiments

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.

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Larry Page Speaks

“Our job is to think of the thing you haven’t thought of yet that you really need.”

Fortune Exclusive: Larry Page on Google

was only Page's second wide-ranging conversation with a print publication since becoming CEO of Google in April 2011 ..... 70-minute discussion ...... It's my job and my personality never to be satisfied. ..... I've been saying the same thing about search in some sense for ten years or so. The perfect search engine would really understand whatever your need is. It would understand everything in the world deeply, give you back kind of exactly what you need. .... The fact that a phone has a location is really helpful for monetization. .... I view a whole bunch of things as additive that you can do on mobile that you couldn't do before. And I think with those things, we're going to make more money than we do now. ..... I think there's no company you would choose that would be better positioned to transition and innovate in mobile advertising and monetization. We've got all the pieces we need to do that going forward. ...... In general I think there's a tendency for people to think about the things that exist. Our job is to think of the thing you haven't thought of yet that you really need. ..... All the big technology companies are big because they did something great. I'd like to see more cooperation on the user side. The Internet was made in universities and it was designed to interoperate. And as we've commercialized it, we've added more of an island-like approach to it, which I think is a somewhat a shame for users. ......... it's actually hard to get people to work on stuff that's really ambitious. It's easier to get people working on incremental things ..... We had 18 different ways of sharing stuff before we did Plus. Now we have one way that works well ...... we actually need to understand things and we need to understand things pretty deeply. People are a component of that. ..... if you're vacation planning. It would be really nice to have a system that could basically vacation plan for you. It would know your preferences, it would know the weather, it would know the prices of airline tickets, the hotel prices, understand logistics, combine all those things into one experience. And that's kind of how we think about search. ....... we're very good at accepting worldwide payments ..... I think I have great advisors. There's a lot of people in our ecosystem and board members and so on who I rely on, and Sergey, as well, and Eric. ..... But I think again I'm a little bit in uncharted territory because I think what I'm trying to do is not -- I can't point to another company and say, "I want to do what they're doing." So I'm trying to cause something to happen, and it's not obvious how to make it happen. ....... As we start up new things, as we're working on new areas, as change needs to happen, I tend to get very deep. Then I make sure I have the right team and the right people are in place, and I'm confident they're doing the right thing. And then I'm gone for a long time. I might be gone for a quarter. ...... I don't see any particular reason why we shouldn't be much bigger, more impactful than we are now.