I briefly had the opportunity to meet Larry and Sergey back in 2003, when we invited them to IE Business School in Madrid to receive an MBA Honoris Causa (in the image). They were famous back then (our Dean back then had met Larry previously in the Davos meeting, no less), but only within certain circles. From now on, with its co-founders in voluntary retirement, it is not going to be the same company Page and Brin started: certainly not the same culture or philosophy. The focus from now on is profit, which will mean making projects profitable within a reasonable time frame, or closing them down. Computer scientists don’t necessarily make good business managers, and they don’t necessarily enjoy doing so.

Source: Forbes December 05, 2019 22:07 UTC