Astro Teller Quotes

Google views Facebook as a threat to its business and has been trying to launch a social-networking service to compete with it.

I think Google's a brilliant company, filled with brilliant people who have done brilliant things.

There are only two companies in the world that can help me. That's Facebook and Google, because they are going to make me the largest digital network in the world, which is my goal.

Facebook was a very big mission; it really knocked it out of the universe. It's pretty hard to focus on a small idea after that. You really have to be working on something that you believe will be of similar impact.

There's going to be a Google or a Facebook or a Zynga every three to five years. Those are really big ideas that do return substantial amounts of money.

If Google teaches you anything, it's that small ideas can be big.

There seems to be no limit to the exciting possibilities that come from combining technical innovations, the Internet, and social media.

The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

Xiaomi looks a bit like Apple but is really more like Amazon with some elements of Google.

I think it's a problem that we don't have more companies like Facebook. It shouldn't be the only company that's doing this well.

Apps, email, and social are the three things Google does not control.

In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

Big companies such as Google and Facebook buy startups at ridiculously high prices - not for their products, but for their people.

Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected.

I'm just more excited about helping new entrepreneurs create the next Facebook or Google.

The Internet produces new business models and also reinvents traditional business models.

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

The start of 2016 offers great promise as the world awakens to the power of connectivity and increasing digitization. The new Digital Age is upon us, and it is unlike anything we have experienced before.

Pavel Durov only knows how to copy great products like Facebook and 'WhatsApp'; he never had and will never have original ideas.

To spend time in Silicon Valley in a year of political upheaval is, on one level, soothing. It is pleasant to hear talk of wearables, walled gardens, and disruptive beverages in between updates about mass deportation.

Facebook and Google are essentially an advertising duopoly, and we have almost no idea how their algorithms work.

The Internet never ceases to impress me.

Technology is impacting everything we do on a daily basis.