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Back in 2011, Larry Page became the CEO of Google in place of Eric Schmidt. This happened at a time when Google was feeling the growing pains of becoming a huge company. It had 30,000 employees and was growing rapidly. But you could really feel the weight; projects were getting more ambitious, taking longer, and often failing more spectacularly. At the time, I remember an anecdote told by Larry Page. He said that companies like Yahoo! used to be a punchline at Google because it would take them weeks to get something onto their homepage. Google could accomplish the same thing in a few hours, or a few days at worst. But now he was the CEO of a company where it took weeks to get something onto the homepage, and he was sure that he was the butt of some startup’s jokes. Anyways, all of this clearly bothered Larry Page. He wanted to fix it. One of his first actions was to shutter tons of projects that didn’t make tactical or strategic sense, and focus on fewer efforts. This came with the c ... Read full article.