Larry Page

Chief Executive Officer of Alphabet

Our Guess:

Quietly forceful, original, and sensitive. Tend to stick to things until they are done. Extremely intuitive about people, and concerned for their feelings. Well-developed value systems which they strictly adhere to. Well-respected for their perserverence in doing the right thing. Likely to be individualistic, rather than leading or following.

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Biography

Lawrence “Larry” Page is an American computer scientist and an Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google Inc. with Sergey Brin in 1998.
Page is the chief executive officer of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc. After stepping aside as Google CEO in August 2001 in favour of Eric Schmidt, he re-assumed the role in April 2011.

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Quotes by Larry Page

Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that.

We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.

It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.

We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.