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>> No one accidentally builds a Billion dollar business Actually some do. The classic example is Google's founders - they tried to exit to Yahoo! for a million
by arbuge 11y ago
>> No one accidentally builds a Billion dollar business
Actually some do. The classic example is Google's founders - they tried to exit to Yahoo! for a million or so, but were turned down.
Perhaps "accidentally" is not the word. Of course, it's not accidental - tons of hard work is involved. But many people never dream of building a billion dollar business, and a few of them still get there.
More importantly, focusing on building a billion dollar business might not be productive. It might actually distract you from doing what customers would like you to do.
- AndrewKemendo 11y agoThis gets the point backward. Again, it's not that they set out to create a billion dollar business. Certainly at one point they were trying for a smaller exit. The key point though is that, somewhere between their Yahoo pitch and today Sergei and Larry made the decision to grow to the $B scale. I think it was when Eric came on actually was when that shift happened.
- kristianc 11y agoThe creation of AdWords must have been a key moment in that, surely? If Auletta's book is to be believed, there were long periods where any kind of revenue at all out of Google would have been cause for celebration.