Letter from the Google founders that was part of Google’s 2004 IPO in which Page and Brin declared “Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one”
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- Search isn’t just about finding websites, it’s getting the right information you need exactly when you need it the most.
- Google gave their team members the ability to work on projects outside of search in a 70–20–10 format. Seventy percent of time was spent on core projects, 20% of time was spent on new tangentially related projects and 10% on moonshot ideas.
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We may do things that we believe have a positive impact on the world, even if the near term financial returns are not obvious. — IPO (2004)
So a child in an Internet cafe in a developing nation can use the same online tools as the wealthiest person in the world. — 2008