Why Google's Founders Really Left Google

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Out of all the top tech companies, the company with the most distant founders is no doubt Google. Larry Page and Sergey Brin have completely stepped away from the spotlight handing over the reins of the company to Sundar Pichai despite their relatively young age. Even when Page and Brin were at Google, they rarely served the role of CEO, and they mainly dealt with acquisitions, Google’s moonshot factory, and innovative projects. This isn’t to say that they didn’t want to be the CEOs of their own companies though. They very much wanted to shape the company and its direction, but the shareholders were never very big fans of their leadership. You see, while Page and Brin wanted Google to do well financially, that wasn’t their number one goal. Their number one goal was for Google to be a research institution that pumped out cutting-edge technology on a regular basis. But, every time Page tried to lead Google in this direction, he often faced a significant amount of pushback from shareholders. And eventually, the duo came to accept that this was simply the future of Google. This video explains Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s revolutionary ideas for Google and why they ended up ditching Google.

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Don’t Look Back
2:13 - First Try As CEO
5:28 - Babysitting
7:22 - Second Try As CEO
10:01 - A Realization

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[jstusr]

If they still own a controlling stake, then why should they even care about someone else's opinion?

[arpanbag]

Any company that starts with a goal of doing something will lose that goal as soon as it goes public, because majority of shareholders do not care about the goal, or making the world a better place.
The only thing they care about is profit.
So if you really want to change the world, never make your company public.

[natalieeuley]

I visited Google in 2013, and I think it was the last era of true Googleyness and growth before things started to fall. That Google is definitely not the same Google that exists today. I don't know what happened, but the little girl in me who dreamed of working for Google had to give it up because that Google I dreamed of working for no longer exists.

[shivendrasingh]

The most searched word on Bing is "Google".

[kevalan]

ironic that Larry does not like oversight since he built the largest surveilance company in the world

[HighIntegritySkills]

As a former Googler, Sergey was always a friendly guy. Larry just wanted to focus on building cool things and tried to see if he could do that as CEO. Ultimately it wasn't the right job for him. They still retain the majority of the voting shares.

One day at TGIF - (weekly all hands when company was still small) one of the employees asked Larry and Sergey if they missed coding and they both said "yes..." before elaborating on lessons they learned in management.

[DinoRodriguez]

I miss a Google with Larry and Sergey in the spotlight. Unpretentious CEOs, loved it.

[syntrax-og]

Google already removed their slogan "Don't be evil" couple of years ago.

[CreatingCreations]

Honestly sounds like what Mark should have done.

[the_witchdoctor]

As a Google employee, I 100% think Larry was right, and it's a shame he didn't succeed at cutting down the management/bureaucracy.
Every year we've seen an increase in management % of employees and a decrease in engineers' ability to self-select work areas, projects, promotion designations, peer reviews, etc. At this point, if you want to do/ask basically anything, you need to go through your manager, or manager's manager..

[kevinwilliams]

Oversight and accountability may just be inconveniences for a hard working genius, but for the rest of us their essential.
I really like that the funders just go off and do what they want, instead of being dragged into jobs their not suitable for.

[stuarthys]

As a scientist I respect Larry’s philosophy, but good management is important for any big project that requires people to work together to succeed. Personally, I would only hire managers who have proven themselves first in a technical (science/engineering) field. I wonder if they were forced to hire too many bean counters who have no understanding of anything except money

[BartLocanthi]

Larry's heart was definitely in the right place, and I miss his Google.

[OnurTheXbot]

Get this man to 1 million subs already.

[loopbloke]

I love Larry and Sergei. In fact the moment they cut down on Google X lab projects and pushed Larry and Sergei, there start demise of Google innovation.

[Raptorman]

The "Don't be evil" thing is, well, just a memory, a memory of an idea that never really existed!

[Phriffo]

Larry and Sergei deserve more public attention than they get.

[notheotherklaus]

I guess "Don't be evil" was easy to implement at the start, but then they had to bend backward for investors and NSA/US government. After that, the slogan became a slogan for double morals. But, besides that, I guess they are not doing too badly on the evil part.

[NisseOhlsen]

I completely have to agree with Larry. Tech people should NEVER report to non-tech people in development. Good people need no managers. They manage themselves. Set goals, revise offer support, and stop programs if needed. All of those require that you understand the technology.

[dlg]

While I agree with Larry's anti management stance, every corporation needs to be held accountable by some outside entity. We have seen all the proof we need that corporations will violate every common sense decency in the book in the pursuit of profits, so they must be closely regulated for the benefit of the public.