Larry Page responds to Steve Jobs saying he was doing too many things. Page agrees but says he built Google to let engineers and entrepreneurs pursue big projects like remaking energy, telecommunications, and transportation instead of zero-sum work.
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You're doing everything. You want to remake the energy business, you want to remake the telecommunications, you want to remake the transportation business. You heard this from Steve Jobs, I understand he said you're doing too many things.
It was right. I mean, he did fine as well. I mentioned I wanted to make company for engineers, like thinking about it that way. Trying to make a company for entrepreneurs also is something I think we're striving for. And I think in the same way, maybe when I was working for the consultant company in dc, it wasn't really my inner calling. I think for most entrepreneurs, working for companies is also not so great. It's not like most people in the world get up and they're like, oh, I wish I could go work for a company. They do it because they have to. I think we got to be more ambitious. We got to do things that matter more to people. We've got to do less things that are zero sum games and more things that really cause a lot of benefit.