Lei Jun Quotes

I was ringside for Amazon and Google.

I don't think anyone is better than Amazon, and all the new generation of enterprise companies are basically copying them.

Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are building their own versions of the future. And they get bigger and bigger.

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

Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.

I got really excited about the idea of data-driven startup just as I was starting Kaggle.

Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce?

Google has a great product. They've built a great business.

Google is a fierce competitor. I wish I was worth a bazillion dollars; that would be really nice. They're a fierce competitor, and they're very good in search. They're very good with their global map thing.

I really think the app store is kind of the killer app for Apple and for Google.

I think Amazon is the greatest start-up and the greatest company in the world. The way they are using new technologies is not just disrupting retail, it's getting ready to disrupt everything.

The United States ran the table on Internet innovations, creating companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Intel, Apple, Cisco, Twitter, Amazon, eBay, YouTube, and others. Europe and Japan scarcely contributed.

I'm not only a fan of Apple products, I have stock in the company. I think Steve Jobs has started one of the greatest corporations in the world.

I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

I like Google.

Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.

VisiCalc and WordPerfect were the killer apps of their day, but Google and Facebook make them look small in comparison.

Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.

Amazon makes money differently from a conventional publisher. It is an infrastructure player.

Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out.

Apple and Google want to create encryption for which they could not provide you the key. Their business model will not survive if the American government has a special relationship with them that requires them to surrender this kind of information.

Our view is that just because Amazon can disrupt somebody else's profit stream, it doesn't mean that Amazon earns that profit stream.

You've got to remember there's intense competition between Microsoft and Amazon.

I came in as an engineer and worked on artificial intelligence at Google. I worked on related sites and matching advertising to queries with some of our earliest ads.

Google seems to be more intelligent than some people.