早在谷歌(Google)創(chuàng)立之初,其聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人拉里·佩奇和謝爾蓋·布林就考慮到該公司巨大的增長(zhǎng)潛力,。創(chuàng)建于1998年的谷歌最初只是一個(gè)搜索引擎,。谷歌的命名源于“古戈?duì)枴保磾?shù)字1后面100個(gè)零,,預(yù)示著它會(huì)變成覆蓋整個(gè)互聯(lián)網(wǎng)的龐然大物,。
谷歌的業(yè)務(wù)已經(jīng)遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)超出了互聯(lián)網(wǎng)的范疇。谷歌的母公司Alphabet估值約1.9萬(wàn)億美元,,在《財(cái)富》2024年“最具創(chuàng)新力公司”榜單中排在榜首,。Alphabet的業(yè)務(wù)拆分成三個(gè)領(lǐng)域:谷歌服務(wù)(Google Services)、谷歌云(Google Cloud)和其他事業(yè),,其影響力包括服務(wù)部門(mén)旗下的安卓,、Chrome、YouTube和Bard AI聊天機(jī)器人,,云計(jì)算部門(mén)旗下的云計(jì)算,,以及其他事業(yè)部門(mén)旗下的私募股權(quán)基金CapitalG、DeepMind人工智能研究和Waymo等,?!敦?cái)富》根據(jù)Alphabet 2023年第四季度的業(yè)績(jī)報(bào)告計(jì)算得出,谷歌服務(wù)貢獻(xiàn)了公司90%的營(yíng)收,。
據(jù)彭博億萬(wàn)富翁指數(shù)(Bloomberg Billionaires Index)顯示,,佩奇的資產(chǎn)凈值約為1,360億美元,是全球第八大富豪,,毫無(wú)疑問(wèn),,Alphabet的成功給他帶來(lái)了豐厚回報(bào)。佩奇在1997年至2001年和2011年至2015年期間擔(dān)任谷歌CEO,,在2019年前擔(dān)任Alphabet的CEO,,目前他依舊是公司的董事會(huì)成員和股東,與聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人布林實(shí)際控制了該公司,。
周二是佩奇51歲生日,。雖然他又長(zhǎng)了一歲,而且變得更加睿智,,但蘋(píng)果(Apple)的聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人史蒂夫·喬布斯曾向他傳授了一些有關(guān)公司未來(lái)的先見(jiàn)之明,。目前,Alphabet的市值排在全球第六位,。
2011年,,在喬布斯人生的最后階段,,佩奇拜訪了他的導(dǎo)師,獲得了一些誠(chéng)懇的建議:據(jù)喬布斯自傳的作者沃爾特·艾薩克斯表示,,喬布斯說(shuō)道:“我主要強(qiáng)調(diào)的是專(zhuān)注?,F(xiàn)在谷歌的業(yè)務(wù)已經(jīng)遍布世界各地。你希望專(zhuān)注于哪五種產(chǎn)品,?把其他產(chǎn)品砍掉,,因?yàn)樗鼈儠?huì)拖你的后腿,會(huì)讓你們變成微軟(Microsoft),。它們會(huì)讓你生產(chǎn)的產(chǎn)品雖然符合要求,,卻不夠偉大?!?/p>
在2015年10月Alphabet創(chuàng)立前幾天,,佩奇在《財(cái)富》全球論壇上對(duì)《財(cái)富》CEO艾倫·默里表示:“他說(shuō)的對(duì)。而且他也做得非常好,?!?/p>
佩奇最初確實(shí)聽(tīng)從了喬布斯的建議,他要求員工專(zhuān)注于安卓產(chǎn)品和現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)不復(fù)存在的Google+,。但Alphabet的發(fā)展表明,,該公司已經(jīng)準(zhǔn)備好有更大的作為,而且將迎來(lái)更多機(jī)遇,。
Alphabet被設(shè)計(jì)成容納谷歌未來(lái)事業(yè)的平臺(tái),,甚至包括可監(jiān)測(cè)血糖的隱形眼鏡等更加離奇的創(chuàng)意。雖然佩奇承認(rèn),,喬布斯在某種程度上是正確的,,但他也認(rèn)為,Alphabet的事業(yè)相互關(guān)聯(lián),,而且能源,、電信和交通等領(lǐng)域都契合公司的經(jīng)營(yíng)范圍。
佩奇在2014年參加柯斯拉風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資公司(Khosla Ventures)的爐邊談話(huà)時(shí)諷刺喬布斯說(shuō):“我始終認(rèn)為,,如果你有一家如此龐大的公司,,卻只能做五件事情,這有點(diǎn)愚蠢,?!?/p>
佩奇和布林對(duì)于Alphabet的公司名稱(chēng)和宗旨充滿(mǎn)信心,他們甚至沒(méi)有進(jìn)行市場(chǎng)測(cè)試,。
佩奇說(shuō)道:“我希望有一個(gè)讓員工為之自豪的名稱(chēng),。但[我]實(shí)際上不想要一個(gè)朗朗上口的名字,因?yàn)槲覀兊南敕ú⒉皇莿?chuàng)建一個(gè)像谷歌一樣的消費(fèi)者品牌,而是一個(gè)囊括許多公司的品牌,?!?/p>
佩奇表示,Alphabet是為員工和投資者打造的一個(gè)品牌,。但并非他選擇了這個(gè)名稱(chēng),。
“我選擇了谷歌,[謝爾蓋]選擇了Alphabet,?!保ㄘ?cái)富中文網(wǎng))
翻譯:劉進(jìn)龍
審校:汪皓
彭博億萬(wàn)富翁指數(shù)顯示,谷歌聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人拉里·佩奇的個(gè)人資產(chǎn)約為1,360億美元,。DAVID PAUL MORRIS—BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGES
早在谷歌(Google)創(chuàng)立之初,其聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人拉里·佩奇和謝爾蓋·布林就考慮到該公司巨大的增長(zhǎng)潛力,。創(chuàng)建于1998年的谷歌最初只是一個(gè)搜索引擎,。谷歌的命名源于“古戈?duì)枴保磾?shù)字1后面100個(gè)零,,預(yù)示著它會(huì)變成覆蓋整個(gè)互聯(lián)網(wǎng)的龐然大物,。
谷歌的業(yè)務(wù)已經(jīng)遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)超出了互聯(lián)網(wǎng)的范疇。谷歌的母公司Alphabet估值約1.9萬(wàn)億美元,,在《財(cái)富》2024年“最具創(chuàng)新力公司”榜單中排在榜首,。Alphabet的業(yè)務(wù)拆分成三個(gè)領(lǐng)域:谷歌服務(wù)(Google Services)、谷歌云(Google Cloud)和其他事業(yè),,其影響力包括服務(wù)部門(mén)旗下的安卓,、Chrome、YouTube和Bard AI聊天機(jī)器人,,云計(jì)算部門(mén)旗下的云計(jì)算,,以及其他事業(yè)部門(mén)旗下的私募股權(quán)基金CapitalG、DeepMind人工智能研究和Waymo等,?!敦?cái)富》根據(jù)Alphabet 2023年第四季度的業(yè)績(jī)報(bào)告計(jì)算得出,谷歌服務(wù)貢獻(xiàn)了公司90%的營(yíng)收,。
據(jù)彭博億萬(wàn)富翁指數(shù)(Bloomberg Billionaires Index)顯示,,佩奇的資產(chǎn)凈值約為1,360億美元,是全球第八大富豪,,毫無(wú)疑問(wèn),,Alphabet的成功給他帶來(lái)了豐厚回報(bào)。佩奇在1997年至2001年和2011年至2015年期間擔(dān)任谷歌CEO,,在2019年前擔(dān)任Alphabet的CEO,,目前他依舊是公司的董事會(huì)成員和股東,與聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人布林實(shí)際控制了該公司。
周二是佩奇51歲生日,。雖然他又長(zhǎng)了一歲,,而且變得更加睿智,但蘋(píng)果(Apple)的聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人史蒂夫·喬布斯曾向他傳授了一些有關(guān)公司未來(lái)的先見(jiàn)之明,。目前,,Alphabet的市值排在全球第六位。
2011年,,在喬布斯人生的最后階段,,佩奇拜訪了他的導(dǎo)師,獲得了一些誠(chéng)懇的建議:據(jù)喬布斯自傳的作者沃爾特·艾薩克斯表示,,喬布斯說(shuō)道:“我主要強(qiáng)調(diào)的是專(zhuān)注?,F(xiàn)在谷歌的業(yè)務(wù)已經(jīng)遍布世界各地。你希望專(zhuān)注于哪五種產(chǎn)品,?把其他產(chǎn)品砍掉,,因?yàn)樗鼈儠?huì)拖你的后腿,會(huì)讓你們變成微軟(Microsoft),。它們會(huì)讓你生產(chǎn)的產(chǎn)品雖然符合要求,,卻不夠偉大?!?/p>
在2015年10月Alphabet創(chuàng)立前幾天,,佩奇在《財(cái)富》全球論壇上對(duì)《財(cái)富》CEO艾倫·默里表示:“他說(shuō)的對(duì)。而且他也做得非常好,?!?/p>
佩奇最初確實(shí)聽(tīng)從了喬布斯的建議,他要求員工專(zhuān)注于安卓產(chǎn)品和現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)不復(fù)存在的Google+,。但Alphabet的發(fā)展表明,,該公司已經(jīng)準(zhǔn)備好有更大的作為,而且將迎來(lái)更多機(jī)遇,。
Alphabet被設(shè)計(jì)成容納谷歌未來(lái)事業(yè)的平臺(tái),,甚至包括可監(jiān)測(cè)血糖的隱形眼鏡等更加離奇的創(chuàng)意。雖然佩奇承認(rèn),,喬布斯在某種程度上是正確的,,但他也認(rèn)為,Alphabet的事業(yè)相互關(guān)聯(lián),,而且能源,、電信和交通等領(lǐng)域都契合公司的經(jīng)營(yíng)范圍。
佩奇在2014年參加柯斯拉風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資公司(Khosla Ventures)的爐邊談話(huà)時(shí)諷刺喬布斯說(shuō):“我始終認(rèn)為,,如果你有一家如此龐大的公司,,卻只能做五件事情,這有點(diǎn)愚蠢?!?/p>
佩奇和布林對(duì)于Alphabet的公司名稱(chēng)和宗旨充滿(mǎn)信心,,他們甚至沒(méi)有進(jìn)行市場(chǎng)測(cè)試。
佩奇說(shuō)道:“我希望有一個(gè)讓員工為之自豪的名稱(chēng),。但[我]實(shí)際上不想要一個(gè)朗朗上口的名字,,因?yàn)槲覀兊南敕ú⒉皇莿?chuàng)建一個(gè)像谷歌一樣的消費(fèi)者品牌,而是一個(gè)囊括許多公司的品牌,?!?/p>
佩奇表示,Alphabet是為員工和投資者打造的一個(gè)品牌,。但并非他選擇了這個(gè)名稱(chēng),。
“我選擇了谷歌,[謝爾蓋]選擇了Alphabet,?!保ㄘ?cái)富中文網(wǎng))
翻譯:劉進(jìn)龍
審校:汪皓
Google cofounder Larry Page is worth about $136 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Even from Google’s inception, cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin considered the company’s potential for astronomical growth. Named after “googol,” the term for the numeral 1 with 100 zeros behind it, Google, then just a search engine founded in 1998, would become as large as the internet would allow.
The company has far exceeded the parameters of just the internet. Valued at about $1.9 trillion, Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, ranks No. 1 on Fortune’s 2024 Most Innovative Companies list. Broken into three segments—Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets—Alphabet’s reach spans from Android, Chrome, YouTube, and its Bard AI chatbot under its Services umbrella, to cloud computing under its Cloud umbrella, to private equity fund CapitalG, DeepMind AI research, and Waymo under its Other Bets umbrella. Google Services makes up 90% of the company’s revenue, Fortune calculated from Alphabet’s 2023 fourth-quarter earnings report.
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Page, the eighth-richest person in the world with a net worth of about $136 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, has certainly reaped the rewards of Alphabet’s success. With stints as CEO of Google from 1997 to 2001 and 2011 to 2015, and of Alphabet until 2019, Page remains a board member and shareholder of his company, effectively controlling it alongside cofounder Brin.
Tuesday is Page’s 51st birthday, and while he’s another year older and wiser, it was Apple cofounder Steve Jobs who imparted some prescient wisdom about the company’s future, which now boasts the sixth-largest market capitalization in the world.
Page visited Jobs toward the end of Jobs’ life in 2011 to receive some frank advice from his mentor: “The main thing I stressed was focus,” Jobs said, according to Walter Isaacson, author of Jobs’ biography. “It’s now all over the map. What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft. They’re causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.”
“He was right,” Page told?Fortune?CEO Alan Murray at Fortune’s Global Forum in 2015, just days after Alphabet’s October founding. “I mean, he did fine as well.”
Page did listen to his advice at first, telling employees to focus on Android products and the now-defunct Google+. But the growth of Alphabet suggested the company was poised for bigger things, and more of them.
Alphabet was designed as a container for Google’s future ventures, even its more esoteric ideas such as glucose-monitoring contact lenses. While Page conceded that Jobs was correct on some level, he also believed that Alphabet’s ventures were interconnected and that energy, telecommunications, and transportation all fit under its umbrella.
“I always thought it was kind of stupid if you have this big company, and you can only do, like, five things,” Page said in a 2014 fireside chat with Khosla Ventures, taking a jab at Jobs.
Page and Brin were so certain of Alphabet’s name and purpose that they didn’t even market test it.
“I wanted to have a name that people would be proud to work for,” Page said. “But [I] actually didn’t want it to be too catchy because the idea really wasn’t to have a consumer brand in the way that Google is, but really a brand for companies to be part of.”
Alphabet was a brand for its employees and investors, Page said. But he doesn’t take credit for the name.
“I chose Google, so [Sergey] chose Alphabet.”