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Founders’ Letter
Sergey and I got over our fear of failure and finally founded Google in 1998. If we
had known then what Google would become in 2009, we would have been totally
flabbergasted. The scale and scope of our services, and the opportunities they offer
users, are phenomenal, and we are very lucky to be a part of this business. Rather than
try to run through an exhaustive list of everything we have done this year, I’m going
to focus on a couple of issues—access to information and a new model of computing—
that are of particular interest to me, and on which I have unique perspective.
I was lucky enough to grow up with computers, and so from an early age I learned that
there’s always more potential at hand with technology, especially as I struggled to read
programs off kludgey cassette tapes. While I’m astounded at the pace and progress we
have made on many areas of the Internet and computing, I am also amazed how slow
progress has been in other equally promising areas. Often what is required to make
progress in technology is focus. For example, there is a hundred times more activity in
clean energy today than there was just a few years ago simply because more people are
now focused on this issue. What really motivates me is this dichotomy of slow progress
in some areas and fast progress in others. This is a tremendous social and business
opportunity. Who would have thought in 1998 that anyone could get for free a high-
resolution picture of their house from above, and even from the street? That is Google
Earth, Maps, and Street View. Was it a foregone conclusion that we would have these
kind of products now? No, it was not. This progress happened because focused teams
of people made those ideas a reality. We could just as easily have hit 2010 and not have
had these services available on the Internet at all.