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Learning to Take Risks: A Personal Story

By Larry Page Eric Schmidt - Stanford
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Lecture Description

Looking back, it is easy to forget the tremendous risks co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin undertook to get to the place they are today. The co-founders once caused the whole Stanford network to go down for a significant amount of time while trying to develop Google. Page remarks that weird things happen when you are trying to touch every computer on the internet.

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  2. Google and Language Translation
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  4. Hiring: What Attributes Do You Look For?
  5. Envisioning the Future for Google: Always a Search Engine?
  6. ROI on Advertising Models Online
  7. Globalization: Google and Asia-Pacific
  8. Learning to Take Risks: A Personal Story
  9. Technology and Social Responsibility
  10. Search Engines and Competition
  11. New Leadership and Organizational Change
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