Eric Schmidt on the Life-Changing Magic of Systematizing, Scaling, and Saying "Thanks" (Live)
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How to Scale a Fast Growing Company
Google hired basically larry and sirge's friends, people from stanford. The recruiting started off is informal, but it ultimately became very, very structured. We were famously focused on the school you went to and your g p a, and not your experience. This caused all sorts of consternation, but it produced people who were both young in the sense of inexperienced. And in business, it produced people that were aggressive and ignorant of what they were doing. So our argument was that in a fast growing company, we need people who can pivot around,. whatever the new challenges.
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