Written on May 17, 2008 – 12:21 pm
Ayelet Noff, Next Web WebTipr Israel
Sergey Brin at Garage Geeks
Thursday night Garage Geeks hosted Sergey Brin, founder of Google, who was nice enough to answer many of our questions about Google’s past, future, and his view of the Israeli startup scene.
Garage Geeks is a “physical & virtual space for multi-disciplinary creative people to meet, innovate and build non-commercial projects that would otherwise may not come to life.” Famous Israeli entrepreneur and investor Yossi Vardi hosted the event.
So many questions were answered actually that my camera’s battery died at a certain point so I apologize for this video not showing the full Q & A session (though it shows most of it). Thank you to Vardi and Garage Geeks for making this event happen. Here is the video from the event:
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Written on May 12, 2008 – 10:18 am
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten,
Here is another Mischievous Monday Morning post with two golden oldies for your amusement. The first is an old but classic geek cake with a birthday message for a Indian geek coded in XML:
And this is Sergey Brin from Google in his pre-IPO days. It was made during a fraternity party where all the guys was dressed up as girls. As far as we know there are no more sightings of Sergey cross-dressing. These kind of photos make you wonder if they will find similar photos of you and me when we become famous one day…
Written on May 6, 2008 – 2:24 pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten,
Good chance you already know that though. It is a well known fact that Steve Jobs only collects $1 a year as CEO of Apple. But don’t be too sorry for him! The board has awarded him with his own 60 million worth private jet and enough options to make him(self) a billionaire.
But there are some technology CEOs that make a lot more than Steve Jobs, and you. Take for instance Ed Zander, the former Motorola CEO who left the company a few months ago made $17.3 million 2007. Seems like a lot compared to Google CEO Eric Schmidt who, just like Steve Jobs, only made a $1 salary in 2007. The same goes for Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin by the way. Schmidt did recive $478,662 in “other compensation” which was mostly spent on personal security. Steve Ballmer’s 2007 salary was $620,000 with a bonis of $650,000 and an additional $9,821 in “other compensation”.
Guess HIS personal security was cheaper.
For a nice overview of what High Tech CEO’s made in 2007 check this slideshow on Network World:
What network CEOs really make
Written on January 31, 2008 – 1:39 pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten,
Google: Back2Back champs on 100 Best Companies to Work For - Jan. 22, 2008
There is a short but entertaining interview in Fortune Magazine with Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt about corporate culture at Google and how they pledges to stay at Google for at least 20 years.
Actually, we agreed the month before we went public that we would work together for 20 years. I will be 69, and according to Google I’m going to live to 84, so I should be fine.
Check out the short version of the interview here:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/18/news/companies/google.fortune/index.htm
Complete article version:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/28/news/companies/google.qa.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008012912
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