56 “We got overwhelmed with traffic”: author interview with Craig Silverstein, September 17, 2007.
56 figure out how to block pornography searches: author interview with Matt Cutts, August 20, 2007.
57 called in a real estate agent: author interview with Susan Wojcicki, April 16, 2008.
57 “Chef Audition Week”: author interview with Marissa Mayer, March 25, 2008.
57 “The fat found in fish”: interview with Charlie Ayers, Advancedengineeringbd.com, March 23, 2008.
57 “I think they were a little bit perturbed”: author interview with Sergey Brin, October 10, 2007.
58 The first place in the valley Al Gore visited… “It was hilarious!”: author interview with Al Gore, June 10, 2008.
58 At around 4:30… “Which prize?”: author attended this and all other Google TGIF’s described.
59 Doerr described Sergey: author interview with John Doerr, September 18, 2008.
60 game show: To Tell the Truth, March 10, 2001, available on YouTube.
60 “Larry can be a little raw”: author interview with Megan Smith, April 17, 2008.
60 a fashionable cocktail party: author attended party for 23andMe, September 9, 2008.
61 7 million searches a day: Google Web site.
61 NASDAQ… fell 78 percent: “How the Web Was Won,” Vanity Fair, July 2008.
61 “Ax in any successful venture”: author interview with Hal Varian, March 27, 2008.
61 revenues would total $19.1 million: Google August 2004 IPO filing with the SEC.
61 “zero discussion”: author interview with Salar Kamangar, March 27, 2008.
61 an encounter around this time with Page and Brin and Bill Gross: John Battelle, Search, Portfolio, 2005.
62. established Google as Yahoo’s official search engine: Randall Stross, Planet Google: One Company’s Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know, Simon amp; Schuster, 2008; also Vise and Malseed and Battelle books.
62. 3.7 million shares: Google’s Form-1 Registration Statement from IPO filing, August 2004.
62 “It was really about the quality of the search”: author interview with Danny Sullivan, March 20, 2008.
63 moving too gingerly for Doerr and Moritz: author interview with Doerr, September 18, 2008, and Moritz, August 23, 2007.
64 “They thought everyone… was a clown”: author interview with Paul Buchheit, June 9, 2008.
64 “they wanted a fellow intellectual”: author interview with Omid Kordestani, April 15, 2008.
64 “they were not convinced”: author interview with Marissa Mayer, November 4, 2008.
64 “They resisted hiring ordinary people”: author interview with Micheal Moritz, August 23, 2007.
64 “All of us on the board”: author interviews with Ram Shriram, June 12, 2008, and September 16, 2008, and with Michael Moritz, August 23, 2007, and March 31, 2009.
65 “It was chaos”: author interview with Tim Armstrong, February 28, 2008.
65 The founders interviewed two computer scientists: author interview with Marissa Mayer, November 4, 2008.
65 indexed one billion Web pages: Google Web site.
65 $19 million… $14.6 million: Google Form S-1, filed with the SEC on August 18, 2004.
CHAPTER 4, Prepping the Google Rocket (2001-2002)
66 five billion songs: Apple press release, June 2008.
66 ten million entries: Google search of Wikipedia.
67 Don’t settle: Larry Page speech at Stanford University, May 1, 2002, available via a link on Page’s Wikipedia page.
67 “the real turning point”: author interview with Craig Silverstein, April 14, 2008.
67 one senior engineer “had 130 direct reports”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, April 16, 2008.
67 Doerr… thought his friend Eric Schmidt might be a perfect fit: author interview with John Doerr, September 18, 2008.
67 Brin had called Schmidt: author interview with Eric Schmidt, April 16, 2008, and June 11, 2008.
68 “They started going at it”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, October 9, 2007.
68 Schmidt was born: author interview with Eric Schmidt, June 11, 2008.
70 Schmidt was paid a salary of $250,000: Google’s Form S-1 IPO Registration, August 18, 2004.
70 The “three of them must agree”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, October 9, 2007.
70 “Eric doesn’t have a huge ego”: Stewart Alsop, quoted in Search, John Battelle.
70 “I think it’s inappropriate to comment”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, October 9, 2007.
70 Instead of wearing: author interview with Eric Schmidt, October 9, 2007.
71 “They became office mates”: author interview with Rajeev Motwani, October 12, 2007.
71 “He found a way”: author interview with Omid Kordestani, April 14, 2008.
71 “had outgrown its usefulness”: author interview with Craig Silverstein, September 17, 2007.
71 “Larry is shy… Sergey did all the talking”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, October 9, 2007.
72 “In exchange for sitting down with me”: Search, John Battelle.
72 Schmidt became Google’s “catcher”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, October 9, 2007.
72 “I don’t know what a catcher does”: author interview with Sergey Brin, September 18, 2008.
72 “He made us better understand”: author interview with Marissa Mayer, November 4, 2008.
73 “I’ll call you Monday morning”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, October 9, 2007.
73 He kept Page and Brin “focused”: author interview with Paul Buchheit, June 9, 2008.
73 Semel’s arrival aroused the righteous anger: Richard Siklos, “When Terry Met Jerry Yahoo,” New York Times, January 29, 2006.
73 “Terry brought two things”: author interview with Bobby Kotick, August 17, 2008.
74 “Semel did not know”: author interview with Ron Conway March 25, 2008.
74 “Help me with something”… “they did not want to sell”: author interview with Terry Semel, July 10, 2008; confirmed by author interview with Eric Schmidt, March 26, 2008.
75 “Don’t be evil”: author interviews with Paul Buchheit, June 9, 2008, and David Krane, November 3, 2008; Search, John Battelle.
75 “Do you think Hitler thought he was evil?”: author interview with Andy Grove, August 20, 2007.
76 “Most people who worked with me”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, June 11, 2008.
76 “In all the years”: author interview with John Doerr, September 18, 2008.
76 “He had a slow start”: author interview with Ram Shriram, September 16, 2008.
77 a superb 2008 Fortune magazine piece: Jennifer Reingold, Fortune, July 21, 2008.
77 Doerr discusses Campbelclass="underline" author interview with John Doerr, September 18, 2008.
78 a rare 2007 interview: Lenny T. Mendonca and Kevin D. Sneader, “Coaching Innovation: An Interview with Intuit’s Bill Campbell,” McKinsey Quarterly, 2007.
78 “Bill’s contribution”: author interview with Michael Moritz, August 23, 2007.
78 “were both impatient”: author interview with Ram Shriram, September 16, 2008.
79 “I would sit with Larry”: author interview with Bill Campbell, March 26, 2008.
79 “Sometimes when you are in a big and complex organization”: author interview with Bill Campbell, March 26, 2008.
79 Likens Campbell to “a shrink” and “Bill took me under his wing”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, October 8, 2007.
79 “he has the unique ability”: author interview with Larry Page, March 25, 2008.
79 “especially high EQ”: author interviews with Sergey Brin, September 18, 2008, and March 26, 2008.
80 “He’s closer to us than the board”: author interview with David Krane, April 18, 2008.
80 management “is a maratbon”: author interview with Larry Page, March 25, 2008.
80 “This isfamily forme… changing the world”: author interview with Bill Campbell, October 8, 2007.
81 To better understand Bill Campbell Jr.: author interview with Bill Campbell, March 26, 2008.
81 “I really felt like I committed”: author interviews with Bill Campbell, June 11, 2008, September 16, 2008, and November 6, 2008, where he discusses his philosophy and biography.