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Not to nitpick, but founding Google doesn't automatically qualify you for a job at any large company, as the article states. Not that I would refuse him a job... but it would require the same interview process as anyone, because I need to find out what he knows about my industry, what his current skills truly are, learn his philosophies, and find out how he would fit culturally. Even brilliant people are sometimes cr…
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I'd give him his 20% time and hope he'd come up with the next big thing in search. Some people you fit to the company, others, you fit the company to them. Brin is in the latter category. Rare, but they do exist.
I tend to take the advice of people who have run more companies than I have, and they would not agree: "I used to fall in love with everyone I interviewed and I'd say, 'We can make anybody successful' or 'We can find a job for any talented person.' And that's just completely wrong and a really bad idea. HR people should figure out job descriptions. God forbid I should ever do that." - Howard Tullman, founder of Exper…
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I'd give him his 20% time and hope he'd come up with the next big thing in search. Some people you fit to the company, others, you fit the company to them. Brin is in the latter category. Rare, but they do exist.
I tend to take the advice of people who have run more companies than I have, and they would not agree: "I used to fall in love with everyone I interviewed and I'd say, 'We can make anybody successful' or 'We can find a job for any talented person.' And that's just completely wrong and a really bad idea. HR people should figure out job descriptions. God forbid I should ever do that." - Howard Tullman, founder of Exper…
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I'd give him his 20% time and hope he'd come up with the next big thing in search. Some people you fit to the company, others, you fit the company to them. Brin is in the latter category. Rare, but they do exist.
I tend to take the advice of people who have run more companies than I have, and they would not agree: "I used to fall in love with everyone I interviewed and I'd say, 'We can make anybody successful' or 'We can find a job for any talented person.' And that's just completely wrong and a really bad idea. HR people should figure out job descriptions. God forbid I should ever do that." - Howard Tullman, founder of Exper…
"That's lovely for you and him - it's just _not relevant_. Can they do the job?"
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Search makes no money at all. But adsense does. Adsense relatively makes little since they pay most to site-owners, whatever they call the ads on Google make the money. After 11 years has, Google has what, other than search?
Uh. YouTube. Android (their market share isn't declining). Likely the most popular cloud office suite. GMail. Picasa. Google+. Analytics. Just to name a few. I'm pretty sure AdSense accounts for around 30-35% of Google's revenue.
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Uh. YouTube. Android (their market share isn't declining). Likely the most popular cloud office suite. GMail. Picasa. Google+. Analytics. Just to name a few. I'm pretty sure AdSense accounts for around 30-35% of Google's revenue.
In an interview Erik said about 90% of revenue is from adsense
You can see their Q4 2010 earnings statement at http://investor.google.com/earnings/2010/Q4_google_earnings.... . Here is the relevant portion for AdSense:
"Google Network Revenues - Google's partner sites generated revenues, through AdSense programs, of $2.50 billion, or 30% of total revenues, in the fourth quarter of 2010. This represents a 22% increase from fourth quarter 2009 network revenues of $2.04 billion."
If publishers are paid 68%, this means Google's share is roughly $650mill for that quarter.
Not to nitpick, but founding Google doesn't automatically qualify you for a job at any large company, as the article states. Not that I would refuse him a job... but it would require the same interview process as anyone, because I need to find out what he knows about my industry, what his current skills truly are, learn his philosophies, and find out how he would fit culturally. Even brilliant people are sometimes cr…
Yes, sort of like Michael Jordan playing baseball.