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Interesting article on Google from GQ

John Heilemann's "Journey to the Center of Google" is an interesting look into the usually tight-lipped Google. The article spends a lot of time discussing how founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin had trouble "growing up" and letting go to certain aspects of the company. It especially interests me given that I read Lucky or Smart? today and author Bo Peabody suggests that the B-Student entrepreneurs should always cede control to the A-Student managers, when the time comes.

"I asked him, 'How the hell do you make decisions? From the outside, it seems crazy.' Eric spent forty-five minutes trying to answer, but he couldn't describe it. And the thing was, he was proud of that. He said it was a new way of doing business. There was no hierarchy; they acted as a triumvirate of equals. They were breaking all the rules. I thought it was a disaster in the making."

My favorite is that co-founder Larry reportedly tried to ban telephones from the new Google office complex.

Posted in Business, Technology on February 28, 2005, 12:09 AM | Permalink

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