Sergey Brin Quotes
We are focused on features, not products. We eliminated future products that would have made the complexity problem worse. We don't want to have 20 different products that work in 20 different ways. I was getting lost at our site keeping track of everything. I would rather have a smaller set of products that have a shared set of features.
Brin, Sergey. Quoted in Vise, David A., and Mark Malseed. The Google Story. Bantam Dell, 2005.
This proverb was one that was selected by Leo Tolstoy in his 1908 Calendar of Wisdom.
Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur. Together with Larry Page, he co-founded Google. Brin was the president of Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., until stepping down from the role on December 3, 2019. He and Page remain at Alphabet as co-founders, controlling shareholders, board members, and employees. As of April 2021, Brin is the 8th-richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$100.2 billion.