Marissa Mayer interviewed Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg of Google tonight at the Computer History Museum, to an overflow crowd. Smashing!
The topic was their new book, How Google Works, and of course (well, maybe not 'of course') they gave Marissa much credit for creating much of the early Google experience. It was a rollicking good time, punctuated at the end by a young kid coming on stage, asking a couple of solid questions (like "will Google go into China if their material is censorship is used?").
The show will be up on the CHM YouTube site by the end of the week. I'll add the url when I get it.
Much solid material, such as "Hiring is too important to leave up to recruiting managers" "A" players will hire "A" players; "B" players will hire "C" players.
Lots about hiring generalists--the world is moving too fast to hire specialists who will quickly become obsolete, but meanwhile try to protect their 'specialty'.
Hire for passion, smarts, creativity. "How do you tell a creative from a 'crazy'" was one question. Answer--can't tell but easier to manage crazies than Bozos if you want creativity.
HiPPOs are despised--Highest Paid Person's Opinion. Great way to kill innovation.
In God we trust; all others bring data. Show me your data for the meeting; if it's just opinion, we'll use mine.
Essentially a brief for how to create and maintain a high-momentum company--with homage to Bill and Dave and how the early HP Way worked. Reminded me lots and lots about that early company.
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