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The Fall and Rise of Larry Page

Posted by samzenpus on from the back-story dept.

schnell (163007) writes "Slate has a long, detailed story about how Larry Page founded Google, how he struggled with its growth, and ultimately how he came back to reinvigorate it. The story recounts fascinating details about Page's relationship to Sergey Brin, the combative culture Page fostered in the company's early years, his resistance to having engineers managed by non-engineers, the company's struggle through its rapid growth, and how Page once even wanted to hire Steve Jobs as Google's CEO."

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  1. Amazing discovery in this article by rockout · · Score: 4, Informative

    Spoiler alert: the article basically spends most of its time saying "Larry Page is a genius, and like many geniuses, is socially awkward." Wow. How ground-breaking.

    That said, I did find it interesting enough to keep reading it.

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  2. What I'd like to read... by Richy_T · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How the darkness spread through the heart of Google, infesting its ethos of "Don't be Evil" with its corruption and engendering a perverse desire to force Google Plus on all.

  3. Re:first=win by russotto · · Score: 4, Informative

    Has anyone ever won who wasn't first? Has anyone ever cloned a technology and defeated someone who was first?

    Microsoft.

  4. "growing up" != accepting exploitative biz model by globaljustin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I want to end the notion that young tech founders need to "grow up" or find a "grey hair" to actually run their business.

    It's bullshit and ruining our industry.

    I'll be the *first* to admit that the techies who make the systems that define new awesome products/services are not trained or experienced in running a high finance business...that's well known

    The dispute comes in the **fix** for the above problem.

    Hiring some dipshit as a figurehead for investors...that addresses absolutely **none** of the **original problems**

    When tech companies need to hire businesspeople, they need to hire businesspeople that are as innovative and progressive as the engineers, not someone to "hold them back"

    What happens instead is that a new, user-centered company becomes spoiled by typical US MBA-type heirarchal capital hogging, data selling, evil corporation.

    There is a 3rd way! Just say "no"!

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