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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: evaluation
30 Jun 2025 Acquired Google Part I: Origins of Search
“Finally after months of this, they come back and they tell Kleiner and Sequoia, there’s one person that we met in this whole process who we think meets our bar, who we would be willing to come in and hire as our CEO here at Google.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
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- evaluation
- Recorded
- 30 Jun 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Google Part I: Origins of Search
Transcript context
…It took 16 months to find a CEO. I don’t think that was entirely because it was hard to find someone. I think some of that was let’s see how long we can get away without one. My favorite story from the whole Google CEO hiring process was the standard playbook here that John, Mike, Sequoia, and Kleiner would run with founders when convincing them to hire a CEO. Take them around the valley, take them on the tour, have them meet the CEOs of the great companies in the Valley at the public companies and say, look, see what a great CEO can do for your business? They do this with Larry and Sergey. They go around, they meet everybody in the valley, they’re unimpressed. They don’t like any of them. Finally after months of this, they come back and they tell Kleiner and Sequoia, there’s one person that we met in this whole process who we think meets our bar, who we would be willing to come in and hire as our CEO here at Google. Oh, God. Who is it?…
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