There’s almost a total correlation between the amount of risk you’re willing to take and then the amount of stuff you then potentially can get done. Lars Rasmussen Read Quote
If you look at my desk… it’s profoundly disorganised – which is why I can work on search. Lars Rasmussen Read Quote
In mapping, where I have no sense of direction, my needs are likely to coincide with the needs of lots of people. Lars Rasmussen Read Quote
Our communication space is very fragmented today. We have a million different tools for different things with lots of different kinds of overlaps. The most natural way to try and solve that problem is to take all those different tools and try to make them smaller and fit into a single package and maybe integrate them across the boundaries. Lars Rasmussen Read Quote
When you look at my life, I spent a lot of time communicating and collaborating and co-ordinating. Lars Rasmussen Read Quote
The problem we encountered with Wave at Google was that we became very isolated from the rest of the company. And in the time that it took us to build Wave, the rest of the company changed direction. I think that has a lot to do with why the product failed. Lars Rasmussen Read Quote
When I did Google Wave, everyone had to be in Sydney, and a lot people actually traveled there to be part of it. There was a lot of isolation. There were a lot of things we kept secret from the company while working on Wave – just like you would at a startup. Lars Rasmussen Read Quote
Both search and social have these distribution angles to them. Before social, if you wanted any sort of traffic on the web, it had to come from search. Lars Rasmussen Read Quote
