It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.

Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.