Watching Sergey Wander: A Sliver of Insight Into Google?

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2009/05/watching_sergey.html

by amilr • 17 years ago

5 3 17 years ago

mahmud• 17 years ago

Summary: Sergey Brin walks around the city all by himself with no posse. He also plays with his cellphone, possibly testing a new technology on his own (no lap technicians.)

The whole article is some Businessweek journalist following Sergey Brin as the later walked a few city blocks with no socks.

kragen• 17 years ago

I couldn't believe you so I read the article. You're right! I'm surprised they thought this was newsworthy.

wallflower• 17 years ago

Billionaire Anthropology. I think its interesting to know how influential, powerful technology company individuals are in real life.

Compare to John Chambers of Cisco:

"He managed five hours, waking at 6. He rode his basement treadmill from 6:15 to 6:45 while watching CNBC. At 7, he left for work in his blue Jaguar convertible and listened to 35 voice mails from his car phone on the 30-minute ride. At the office, he made a series of rigidly timed phone calls, hosted a breakfast for Cisco employees with birthdays that month, walked the halls and stoked morale. He returned home by 5:30, ebullient again."

"He betrays no complications, or anything like angst. He stays on-message, carries a thick briefing book for that day’s meetings. While many executives do this, Chambers’s reliance on his book is striking. At the Davos World Economic Summit in January, the book was five inches thick, and he spent eight hours a night drilling himself for the next day’s meetings."

http://www.marshall.edu/itc/welman/Selby%20Wellman%20par.doc

Watching Sergey Wander: A Sliver of Insight Into Google?

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