Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt: The greatest products share this one trait

If you think about the greatest products, they've almost always been designed for the benefit of the people who actually are building them. And so the Uber story, they built this to share apps. In fact, original Uber was a private sharing group. Larry and Sergey built Google for Stanford and particular for themselves. The server was in Larry's dorm room, and they needed a second server. They didn't have enough power, so they ran the cord over the room into the gentleman next door's dorm room. They opened up the server for the entire campus here, and the usage was phenomenal. Andy Bechtelsheim heard about it through David Cheriton. He wrote a $100,000 check. They didn't have a name for a company. He wrote the check, he gave it to Sergei. Sergey put it in his wallet without a name on it for $100,000 and left it in his wallet for a month until they had the name. Google invented.