I remember Larry saying that in reality for a long time the homepage was spare because Sergey's HTML sucked (or vice versa). I worked on a project that fell un

I remember Larry saying that in reality for a long time the homepage was spare because Sergey's HTML sucked (or vice versa). I worked on a project that fell under her umbrella. I have seen up close some of the things she gets blamed for. She was demanding, a workaholic and stubborn in some of her choices. E.g. there was this one change that she —through her PM— insisted on, without any knobs, even if we pretty much knew that a vocal minority were going to be unhappy. On the other hand, she did pick good people to lead the project, even if I wasn't enthusiastic about every single decision taken by her or them. Because she worked so much, it was easy to get feedback from her, too. :-) I also appreciated that she gave props to our team at a public event when we least expected it. Overall, she wasn't a perfect leader, but she wasn't as bad or just lucky as some claim.