Times are challenging for the new CEO of Google (Larry Page) especially when Google is at a war with the other hot pre-ipo start-ups like Facebook, Twitter, Groupon etc. My inquisitive mind wanted to know more about the personality traits of Larry Page and see how he'd be currently leading Google so I started searching on him for his leadership attributes / personality traits.
I stumbled upon a bunch of videos uploaded on the Stanford website. I specially liked the following one.
In this 4.5 minute video he gives some tips for entrepreneurship. The most important
aspect that he is touching on is "why you should start-up a company"; because you have a better solution to a problem. His is a very software engineering point of view and which I think is a correct approach. Had Google not mastered the search engineering they would not be successful. Search was not new when Google started. Google was in-the-works for a couple years in the Stanford labs while there were giant IT companies employing search websites. Theirs was an engineering approach to solving the problem the best way. It did pay off.
He brings up interesting points which are good take aways for the entrepreneurs like how to be focussed
more on the problem your company is solving than on the funding/VC aspect.
If your idea is not anything new but you have the best solution to the problem in that space the
In this 4.5 minute video he gives some tips for entrepreneurship. The most important
aspect that he is touching on is "why you should start-up a company"; because you have a better solution to a problem. His is a very software engineering point of view and which I think is a correct approach. Had Google not mastered the search engineering they would not be successful. Search was not new when Google started. Google was in-the-works for a couple years in the Stanford labs while there were giant IT companies employing search websites. Theirs was an engineering approach to solving the problem the best way. It did pay off.
He brings up interesting points which are good take aways for the entrepreneurs like how to be focussed
more on the problem your company is solving than on the funding/VC aspect.
If your idea is not anything new but you have the best solution to the problem in that space the
world is bound to come to you.
I had one of my favorite quotes which I am reminded of : "If you don't know the solution it is not a problem but if you don;t understand the problem then this is the real problem!".
So as he says, and which is quite makes sense is your ingenuity in solving the problem. Maximize that!
That will bring you customers and hence the revenues! So I'm thinking Larry is on the right track not paying too much attention to the wall street "clutter" and he is going back to solving problems that Google is facing.
The important thing is he understands what Google's problem is and focusing all effort and eyes on solving those. He is on the right track. We don't care what solutions they come out with. But they are on it!
The problem for Wall Street is that they don't understand Google's problem. I am thinking this might end
up as a problem for them.
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I had one of my favorite quotes which I am reminded of : "If you don't know the solution it is not a problem but if you don;t understand the problem then this is the real problem!".
So as he says, and which is quite makes sense is your ingenuity in solving the problem. Maximize that!
That will bring you customers and hence the revenues! So I'm thinking Larry is on the right track not paying too much attention to the wall street "clutter" and he is going back to solving problems that Google is facing.
The important thing is he understands what Google's problem is and focusing all effort and eyes on solving those. He is on the right track. We don't care what solutions they come out with. But they are on it!
The problem for Wall Street is that they don't understand Google's problem. I am thinking this might end
up as a problem for them.
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