David Rosenthal: belief

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…Exactly. That’s the thing with these ‘what would’ve happened otherwise’ acquisitions. That’s amazing. Back to fall of 2000 when Larry and Sergey and Google can now finally focus on improving their ads product. I think we heard this from folks in the research. Once they saw how well the GoTo and Overture model was working, I think Larry and Sergey were kicking themselves of, we should have just done this from the beginning. Why did we waste time doing this the other way?Yeah, it’s going to take a lot of technology to build this out and we’re going to have to focus on it, but it’s obviously the better business. Obviously, Larry and Sergey, geniuses from their childhood through their undergrad research projects. The way that they conceptualize the original PageRank algorithm, everything, truly geniuses. But the second superpower on top of that is it doesn’t always need to be their idea. They’re very good at hearing the best idea, whether it’s from outside of Google or someone else inside Google and adopting that and making that the thing that they run with.…

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