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Re:Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business by AndrewKemendo on Friday September 04, 2015 @01:45PM (#10171863)
This gets the point backward. Again, it's not that they set out to create a billion dollar business. Certainly at one point they were trying for a smaller exit.

The key point though is that, somewhere between their Yahoo pitch and today Sergei and Larry made the decision to grow to the $B scale. I think it was when Eric came on actually was when that shift happened.

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Re:Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business by kristianc on Friday September 04, 2015 @02:20PM (#10172037)
The creation of AdWords must have been a key moment in that, surely? If Auletta's book is to be believed, there were long periods where any kind of revenue at all out of Google would have been cause for celebration.
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