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I don't know man. Doesn't that sound a little bit suspicious? If you were to create Google why would you just peace out? Look at Bill Gates. He still wants to d

I don't know man. Doesn't that sound a little bit suspicious? If you were to create Google why would you just peace out? Look at Bill Gates. He still wants to do things but the google founders are all MIA. How do guys like that just lose all ambition and disappear?

kelnos 7y ago
If I had created Google I would have peaced out looooong ago. Sure, I wouldn't disappear completely, but I'd work on low-stress things where I have a lot of free time and don't have so much responsibility under me.
- alexis_fr 7y ago
  > low-stress things where I have a lot of free time and don’t have so much res... Or children ;) John Lennon famously quit music for 5 years to raise his second child, after failing his first marriage.
  - kelnos 7y ago
    Children... low-stress things... hmm, you seem to have different tastes than I do ;)
- mac_was 7y ago
  Create Google first and we will all see :-)
  - kelnos 7y ago
    I'm looking at early retirement in the next year or two. I'm certainly not anywhere near as financially successful as Brin or Page or Pichai, and I doubt I've put in as much stressful work as they have, but I've done ok for myself, and I'm looking forward to doing literally anything I want with my time, without having to answer to anyone, whether it's a boss, investors, or board of directors. I guess only time will tell how much I like this arrangement, but I'm pretty optimistic about it, and am tired of hearing the usual "oh but you'll be bored and want to work again" tropes. There's a lot more to life than work...
tonyedgecombe 7y ago
Perhaps they didn't envisage it turning into a giant surveillance and advertising machine. I doubt that is what they imagined when they started on their PhD's.
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Mikeb85 7y ago
I don't know their lives. Maybe they will do stuff like Bill Gates. All I know is that if I were them, I'd have stepped down long ago. Either way they achieved great success and are leaving on a high. I don't know how anyone can interpret it differently.
kouh 7y ago
A similar question was at the center of Atlas Shrugged
- jacquesm 7y ago
  That's not exactly a standard work on business management advice.
- pferde 7y ago
  If Larry and Sergey were the kind of people that were quitting and disappearing in the book, they would not quit, but instead try to sneakily dismantle Google from within, like d'Anconia in the book. :)
- guelo 7y ago
  Are you proposing that Larry and Sergey are starting a secret society of billionaires who are withdrawing their genius contributions from society as a protest against government regulations?
narrator 7y ago
Well Sergey did get mentioned in a Q drop 3644 the day before he resigned. If you don't know what that is, don't bother googling it.
narrator 7y ago
Move along, nothing to see here.

kelnos 7y ago

If I had created Google I would have peaced out looooong ago. Sure, I wouldn't disappear completely, but I'd work on low-stress things where I have a lot of free time and don't have so much responsibility under me.

alexis_fr 7y ago
> low-stress things where I have a lot of free time and don’t have so much res... Or children ;) John Lennon famously quit music for 5 years to raise his second child, after failing his first marriage.
- kelnos 7y ago
  Children... low-stress things... hmm, you seem to have different tastes than I do ;)
mac_was 7y ago
Create Google first and we will all see :-)
- kelnos 7y ago
  I'm looking at early retirement in the next year or two. I'm certainly not anywhere near as financially successful as Brin or Page or Pichai, and I doubt I've put in as much stressful work as they have, but I've done ok for myself, and I'm looking forward to doing literally anything I want with my time, without having to answer to anyone, whether it's a boss, investors, or board of directors. I guess only time will tell how much I like this arrangement, but I'm pretty optimistic about it, and am tired of hearing the usual "oh but you'll be bored and want to work again" tropes. There's a lot more to life than work...

tonyedgecombe 7y ago

Perhaps they didn't envisage it turning into a giant surveillance and advertising machine. I doubt that is what they imagined when they started on their PhD's.

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Mikeb85 7y ago

I don't know their lives. Maybe they will do stuff like Bill Gates. All I know is that if I were them, I'd have stepped down long ago. Either way they achieved great success and are leaving on a high. I don't know how anyone can interpret it differently.

kouh 7y ago

A similar question was at the center of Atlas Shrugged

jacquesm 7y ago
That's not exactly a standard work on business management advice.
pferde 7y ago
If Larry and Sergey were the kind of people that were quitting and disappearing in the book, they would not quit, but instead try to sneakily dismantle Google from within, like d'Anconia in the book. :)
guelo 7y ago
Are you proposing that Larry and Sergey are starting a secret society of billionaires who are withdrawing their genius contributions from society as a protest against government regulations?

narrator 7y ago

Well Sergey did get mentioned in a Q drop 3644 the day before he resigned. If you don't know what that is, don't bother googling it.

narrator 7y ago

Move along, nothing to see here.