Win over Google? It is simple!

I would like to draw the attention of the venerable public: I respect Google and its creators, the presented article is just an attempt to tell a little about the development of Google in a satirical form, which sometimes does not conform to the stereotypes living in minds. Very many of them have collapsed, and after reading the book “Google. A breakthrough in the spirit of time ”by David Wise. This article was born precisely after reading this book.

All of us sometimes find ourselves captive to stereotypes. So the idea of ​​the success story of Google has evolved in my mind for a long time  more from abstract stereotypes than on the basis of facts. It’s better not to ask where the stereotypes come from, they just are. And here is one of them.

An ordinary guy from Russia meets another ordinary guy from the USA and as a result of communication and friendship they have a mega-idea. Having created everything on the knee, the guys lock themselves in the garage and from there alone quietly conquest the world with their excellent ideas, which they do not tire of inventing. One fine day, the guys wake up and,what a mirracle! They are already billionaires, everyone and everybody knows their names, and people use their service in all countries of the world. A kind of variant of the so-called “American dream”, about which we hear so much: “as a child I sold matches on the street, and by the age of 60 I had accumulated a billion”.

Oho! Have you already an idea? And you even gathered to go on this stereotypical path leading to the seizure of the world? Wait a minute, let's formulate a few conditions necessary to defeat Google. Beat them with their own weapons!

Simple guys

All of us consider ourselves to be “simple guys,” well, actually, why are we worse than Page, or especially the former compatriot Brin? Well, no, really? Well, except that not all of us dad worked as an employee of the state plan in the USSR. What? Isn't your dad a finance ministry official? Well I do not know. Probably, even without such a dad, we will be able to immigrate to the United States and go to the University of Maryland, in which your dad will not be as a teacher.

Stop. Do you still consider Bryn and Paige "simple guys"? Well, you will not be difficult to get a bachelor's degree at a university in the United States at 19 and enroll in a doctoral degree program at Stanford University.

Mega-idea on the knee

As we remember, we already have a mega-idea. The case remains for a small - somehow implement it, at least try. I hope you have the capacity of the Stanford Institute, its patent office, its support in the form of doctoral staff and the staff of the institute themselves. Don't you have? Well, at least you have someone who will pay you a place of research, your traffic, your resources? What? No one will give you even 10 thousand dollars, as Brin and Paige received it as part of the Digital Libraries project ?! Some strange mega-idea that was born in the wrong environment.

All by yourself

As is well known, “perseverance and hard work will be done a lot” I did not like this saying from childhood. It seems to sound cool, but you will see that some other principle works everywhere: “communication and kinship is always good.” But we know that we are simple guys. Truth be told Page and Brin had an acquaintance and meetings with David Filo, one of the founders of Yahoo! and Paul Flati, the creator of AltaVista, but this is so - nothing. In addition, meanwhile speaking, Paul is a graduate of the same institute where we studied too! What? Is there no AltaVista founders at your institute? How so? Simply you have finished some strange institutions. Otherwise, if you received a doctoral degree at the right university, a professor at your university would introduce you to a man like Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, who travels on a Porsche and can easily write you a check for $ 100,000 on the first day of your acquaintance.

Capture the world from the garage

You, probably, have already hurried and bought a garage, for sure, of Soviet times, in which the car hardly fits. Well, never mind. You did it, because you already have a working system in your pocket, a mechanism run-in on the hardware base of the Stanford Institute and you have got a donation of hundreds of thousands dollars from Bechtolshiy. It remains only to sit and wait until everything rushes to use your system. What? There is not anyone? And did you not send emails, did you not send messages via ICQ? You're kidding! After all, even Bryn and Paige, such simple guys, did it.

By the way, are you sure that your garage is suitable for facilities comparable to those used by the creators of Google? They ordered computers in batches of 21 exemplars. What? Do you have so much space in the garage ?! Some kind of wrong garage. By the way, I forgot to tell you, Brin and Page spent only half a year in the garage, and then moved into another building, where they occupied an entire floor. Well, it's not disgusting? Only you bought a garage, and it's time to sell it.

Let’s Crush google

So, things are in order, everything works, all is spinning. Togo and look we become billionaires. But somehow for a long time capital does not go to us , and self-sufficiency somehow does not appear, that if you look at the money - it soon will not be enough and a hundred thousand dollars will end soon. What to do? Well, of course, contact your friends and relatives. What? You do not have those who can give you a million dollars? Yes, you are laughing! What are weird your relatives and friends. They gave easily money to Bryn with PJ , but why don't they give you something? Well, okay, then you probably managed to find venture funds like Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia, which gave Brin and Page $ 25 million. What? You can not find such amounts? Well, I do not know, for sure, you were looking for money very bad.

Let's Become Billionaires

As you see, it is easy to become billionaires; all you have to do is observe a few points described above. Your mega-idea captured the world, venture capital works, everything goes as it should. You even have someone who helps you, like Eric Schmidt, who used to work at Sun Microsystems as chief engineer and director general at Novell. What?! There's no such guy? And what guy do you have? Well, is there although any guy you have?! No? Well, you're kidding! Let,s search faster!

Conclusion

You did everything right! We went to the IPO and became billionaires. The goal was achieved and, you should notice, the conditions for achieving this goal were not so much. Just some small actions - to do what is written in this article. What? It's impossible?! Well, You're kidding! Brin with Paige did it, and you say "impossible." Let's Learn yourself!