Google was a venture-funded company. Being part of that brings an energy to the company. – Bill Maris
Reader was by far the most popular feed reader out there, and its user base had been in a steep decline for two years before Google decided to shut it down. – Annalee Newitz
We couldn’t buy Google on the IPO, but I knew I wanted to own it. I was gonna go big. It came out and went down a bit. I got distracted by something and didn’t get in. – Charles Schwab
If I’m an entrepreneur, and I have a term sheet from Sequoia and Kleiner, that’s the safe choice. Google Ventures is the brave choice. – Bill Maris
Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. – Bill Gates
If we don’t build a company as influential as Google or Facebook, then we failed. I’m, like, perpetually stressed, honestly. – Arash Ferdowsi
In 2013, when Google announced that Kansas City would be the first city in the country to have Google Fiber, I bought a house in the first neighborhood that was being wired up with Google’s gigabit Internet. – Brad Feld
Google worries – and rightly so – about how hard it is for a big company to come up with the next hot thing. – Bethany McLean
I can make it very clear: I get paid if we make good investments. And if we don’t, I don’t get paid. I have no incentive to sell our companies to Google; the entrepreneurs get to decide that. We are minority shareholders. – Bill Maris
We think Facebook and Google know a lot about us – who knows more about us than AmEx, MasterCard and Visa? They know exactly what we spend and where we spent it… so they’re looking at ways to unlock it. – Anthony Goldbloom
It’s so exciting to be able to talk about Office 365. I can only describe what Office 365 is in sort of two words. You could say technically it’s three words. But Office 365, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing but a Google butt-kicker, that’s all it is. – B. Kevin Turner
I wanted to be a venture capitalist and join Sequoia Capital. They’ve financed and helped built some really special and enormously successful companies, including Google, Yahoo, Paypal, YouTube, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, and also Zappos. – Alfred Lin
Did Google need to make robot cars in order to make Streetview work? Absolutely not. It’s the equivalent of saying you need a walking robot in order to push an upright vacuum cleaner. It’s gratuitous robotics! – Colin Angle
Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display. – Astro Teller
Google pays advertisers based not just on payment per click but also by number of clicks. The interplay between the two sets the prices, so a government-regulated price for ‘equal access’ might be difficult to set. – Marvin Ammori
TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence. – P. J. O’Rourke
As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google’s traffic congestion maps. – Carlo Ratti
Removed from ‘Gmail’ doesn’t necessarily mean removed from all Google servers. In fact, your old emails are the data set from which Google models our behaviors – the real product it is offering its advertisers. – Douglas Rushkoff
Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends’ and loved ones’ faces live. – Peter Diamandis
We never saw Google+ Circles or Facebook Lists as reflective of the way our friendships play out. – Evan Spiegel
