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Lawrence Page
Co-Founder & Director, Google

Nikola Tesla was first Tesla I ever heard of by Larry Page

🎥 Jan 01, 2015 📺 Be The Big Deal ⏱ 0m 👁 892 views
Larry Page is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin in 1998. He served as ...
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Larry Page has described artificial intelligence as "the ultimate version of Google," stating in a 2000 interview that an ideal search engine would "understand everything on the web" and "be able to answer any question basically because almost everything is on the web." He has also discussed his approach to innovation, saying he uses the economic concept of "additionality," which he defined as "doing something that wouldn't happen unless you're actually doing it." Page has said he tries to focus on "what that future really is going to be and how do we create it." Page has commented on the structure of Alphabet, noting that he and Sergey Brin see part of their job as "the Warren Buffett part, managing these disparate things." He has said his job is "to create that scale that we haven't quite seen from other companies." Regarding self-driving cars, Page said he hopes they can cause "a really dramatic change" and noted that "so much of our land, in most cities about 30 to 50 percent, is parking which is a tremendous waste." He has also stated that "invention is not enough," arguing that "companies are doing the same incremental thing that they did 50 years ago or 20 years ago" and that "we need revolutionary change not incremental change."

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When I was 12 or so, my parents actually gave me an autobiography of Tesla. When I say 'Tesla,' maybe some of you think of the rock band, maybe you think of the electric car company now, but I actually refer to Nikola Tesla. When I was 12, I guess that was probably the main choice. I thought I wanted to be an inventor when I grew up. I was brought up with computers; I was really lucky to get my first computer when I was six because my dad was a computer science professor. Tesla was actually working hard on transmitting power across continents wirelessly, and it's still not known exactly what he had in mind.