A speaker reflects on Google's broad mission—to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful—noting its near-impossibility, the excitement it generates, and the counterintuitive advantage that very hard, large problems can attract far greater resources and collaboration than smaller ones.
Chapters
I think for all of you, there are many areas where there's leverage available in the world where one or two people, a good idea, a lot of hard work can really make a difference. There's many things like that and it's good not to forget that, but it's good to look for those things. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. And one of the things that surprised me, that's a very broad mission. It's a lot of work. Not going to achieve it anytime soon. Right. It's almost an impossible task, but it's an exciting task and one that you can get other people excited about and they can help you. One of the things that also surprised me is it's sometimes easier to do something that's harder because other people get excited about it and you can get much more resource. You can get tremendous resources to solve a hard problem, whereas you might only get minor resources to solve a small problem.