This blog is certainly not meant to become a book review blog but I can't help but post about another magnificent book I just read, "the Google Story". Like I said its just magnificent to
read about great people and great ideas. Here are two guys Larry and Sergey, who just took 7 years to become billionaires. After reading this book I'm sure your role
models will become Larry and Sergey and not Sachin Tendulkar, Roger Federer or Tiger Woods.
One of the best things I found out after reading this book is that a business should be aimed
at solving a social problem rather than setting out to make a money machine. These guys were so frustrated with the search tools available back then that they thought of making a better search engine. And when they went to show their first business plan they did not have an answer to the first and the most basic question a venture capitalist would ask after seeing a
plan, "How would you make money ?"
Well, "how would you make money" is now an 80 billion dollar thing. So even now Google's motto is to first make a product that is technologically and performance wise far superior than others, and then think of monetizing it. Thats how you make something that goes on to have a social impact.
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