Google Trio Interviewed by Time Magazine

Time Magazine's latest issue contains an interview with Google's Schmidt, Brin, and Page. The interview contains some interesting tidbits, such as the company's philosophy on transparency:

Schmidt: With all the headlines we're making, we don't want our announcements to surprise or confuse anyone. We don't want our partners to think we're competing against them.
Brin [holding up some clear plastic pieces]: Look, I'm only using transparent Legos.

Also interesting is their comment on keeping Google's strategy a secret:

Schmidt: We try very hard to look like we're out of control. But in fact the company is very measured. And that's part of our secret.
Page: We don't generally talk about our strategy ... because it's strategic. I would rather have people think we're confused than let our competitors know what we're going to do. That's an easy trade-off.

All in all it's a fairly short interview -- you can read it in its entirety here.

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Sorta related...

Barron's has an article which is a bit bleak on Google's current valuation. John highlighted it here.


legos

You gotta love them playing with legos while they're being interviewed!


all fluff

that's gotta be one of the most trite, useless, uninformative interviews I've ever read. and that was Time Magazine????


>We don't generally talk

We don't generally talk about our strategy ... because it's strategic.

prettymuch summed up the interview