Google's founder and CEO Larry Page's Untold Story
One day in July 2001, Larry Page decided to dismiss Google's project manager. All the project managers.
Larry Page was a 22-year-old Stanford graduate student at the time, just five years after he thought of an idea in the middle of the night. Based on this idea, he can download the entire Internet, view links on different pages, and then be able to view the world's information in a whole new way.
The code that Paige wrote that night became the basis of an algorithm. He called it PageRank and used it to support a brand-new internet search engine BackRub. But the name hasn't been used for long.
By 1997, BackRub was renamed Google and was well-developed with millions of users, favored by a number of well-known investors, and 400 employees, including several project managers.
Dismissal Project Manager
Like most startups, in the first year of Google, the company CEO page and the engineer did not have any management hierarchy. But as the company grows, a new layer of managers is added between the CEO and the engineer, who can see page and other Google executives, and then give engineers orders and deadlines.
Page hates this pattern. He argues that Google should only hire the best engineers, and that too many levels of oversight are not only unnecessary, but also a hindrance. He even suspects that Google's project managers are leading engineers to deviate from projects that are important to him personally. For example, page had a plan to scan all the world's books and make them searchable on the internet, but few people were working on the project. Paige blamed the project manager.
He proposed a number of drastic streamlining measures. Instead of reporting to the project manager, all Google engineers will report back to Wayne Rosing, the newly hired vice president of engineering, and Rohingyas will report directly to page Wehn Rosin.
Douglas Edwards (Douglas Edwards) wrote about Google's early internal views, "I'm Lucky" (i ' m feeling Lucky) disclosed that Google's human resources director Stathy Sullivan (Stacey Sullivan is a very serious woman who thinks Paige's plan is crazy. "People need to be solved when they're having problems." "she said.
Paige ignored her.
Google's founder and CEO Larry Page's Untold Story