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"It may sound nuts, but I’ve found that it’s easier to make progress on mega-ambitious goals than on less risky projects. Few people are crazy enough to try, an
by dm8 15y ago
"It may sound nuts, but I’ve found that it’s easier to make progress on mega-ambitious goals than on less risky projects. Few people are crazy enough to try, and the best people always want to work on the biggest challenges. We've also found that “failed” ambitious projects often yield other dividends."
Loved this comment! Out of curiosity, are there any other failures at Google (apart from the ones he mentioned) that are used for different purpose than the one intended?
- beatle 15y agoNot included in his update. 2010 GAAP 4th quarter Net income = $2.54 billion 2011 GAAP 4th quarter Net income = $2.71 billion or $170M growth in net income. But let's just forget about that and congratulate Larry Page for a wonderful job in helping grow Google+ membership to 100M and Android activation to 850K per day because really, that's VERY important.
- cgs1019 15y agoI am purely speculating (I work at Google but in a totally unrelated area), but from a user's perspective, many of the most awesome collaboration features in Docs seem to be inspired by the things that were most compelling (to me) about Wave.
- jrockway 15y agoCode Search is no longer public, but we use it internally. It's great for developer productivity to be able to search millions of lines of code in a second. (On my first day, I did a search for jrockway and found code I wrote at a company that Google bought. Yay!)
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