The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Larry Page reads as The Visionary because his ambitions have consistently outpaced conventional industry imagination. Co-founding Google, he pursued not merely a search engine but a foundational theory of organising all human knowledge, rooted in his academic work on link-based authority. Creating Alphabet, he restructured the company to liberate moonshot ambitions, from self-driving vehicles to life-extension research.
“Knowing and having just information is what it is, just the flow of information. You are a complete, you're in a completely different realm than any other business out there.”
“Yeah, and I found it really interesting too, all the different things that they were talking about to cool all these computers and all this processing power. They've got to cool it.”
“Know that's a fantastic point. I think a lot of people might not even realize what that is. And so in our show notes, we'll have a good write up of what Hari's referring to and something else that Sergei had gone through with his education as a young kid.”
“Google's at the exact opposite. So let me just give you an example. So Google will do their employees laundry for them. They will have cars there. So if people want to just drive around and company cars, they can drive around company cars. They have gourmet chefs that cook for people at no cost. You don't have to pay for your lunch.”
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