"No, Traist's experience at Cisco shows that he is too introverted, and I don't want Google to fall prey to office politics. ”

"That's not okay either, Yahoo's success doesn't mean anything about Ronil Silla's management, and I don't think poaching people from Yahoo is a good idea. ”

"This... Sorry Bill, I'm not racist, there are enough Indians in Google right now, and I want to make sure that the company... Uh, diversification, yes, diversification. Moreover, Google will deal with the government more and more frequently in the future, and Narayan is not the right person. ”

John Williamson。。。。。。 He's a good candidate, and Symantec is doing well in the enterprise market under his leadership. However, he doesn't have any technical background, and I'm afraid he will have a hard time adapting to Google's engineering culture. ”

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Zhang Chen regretfully put a thick stack of personnel resumes on the table, "That's all?"

Bill Campbell rolled his eyes angrily, "That's all? There are a total of nineteen resumes here, all of them are leaders in the industry, and they are all qualified to be the CEO of Google! If you look for any headhunting company, it is impossible to provide you with more candidates!"

Zhang Chen hurriedly comforted: "There are a lot of candidates, but I always feel that it is a little worse." Moreover, except for John Williamson, who has executive experience in large companies, the others have only been middle-level at most, and they can't be selected, so I can't be blamed. Besides, you've talked to Larry and Sergey before, and even if I don't veto them, they're going to veto. ”

Larry Page nodded silently, and he also felt that these people were not a good fit for Google.

As for Sergei Brin, his mind was not at all in the meeting, and he was concentrating on playing with a GBA, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.

Google's CEO selection has been going on for more than two months, and Bill Campbell has provided Google with no less than 50 candidates, but they have all been killed by Zhang Chen and Larry Page for various reasons.

"Anyway, this is the best fit I can find, unless you're looking for a big company executive like Ballmer or Chambers. Bill Campbell was still a little angry.

Zhang Chen's index knuckle tapped on the table: "Bill, I'm sorry, I want to correct it." ”

Bill Campbell was stunned for a moment, but saw a smile on the corner of Zhang Chen's mouth: "What Google needs is not executives of prestigious large companies, but real top managers." ”

Bill Campbell kept his mouth open, not knowing what to say for a moment.

After a long time, Bill Campbell sighed: "Zack, let's be realistic now, Google is just a company that has been in business for less than two years, and although it has a certain influence in the search field now, it is still unrealistic to recruit those professional managers who have been famous for a long time." Moreover, the $200,000 annual salary we gave is not a small amount in Silicon Valley, but for executives in large companies, the gap is too great. Even if we could get the same salary, I find it hard to believe that they would give up their current jobs. ”

Bill Campbell paused, "A platform doesn't just mean revenue, it means more invisible benefits, and the bigger the platform, the more benefits." ”

Zhang Chen couldn't help but laugh dumbly, is there a more promising platform than Google?

However, this can't be blamed on Bill. If more than a decade later, countless top professional managers will cry and shout to join a company like Google, which is destined to become a unicorn, but now it is 98 years, and there are not so many legendary deeds of hugging thighs for these professional managers to learn from, Bill Campbell's ideas can represent the vast majority of people.

"If someone invites you to get on the rocket, don't worry about which position, go up first. Zhang Chen said slowly, "Google is a rocket that is about to take off, and the position we provide is the pilot of this rocket." Bill, it's your job to find this skilled driver and get him!"

Bill Campbell didn't expect Zhang Chen to be so confident in Google, and the rocket that was about to take off could explode even if it was about to take off.

Bill Campbell adjusted his mentality, well, since Zhang Chen is so resolute, he can only continue to look for a suitable candidate.

"Do you have any target candidates?" Bill Campbell asked, leaning back in his chair, "or who do you think is best suited for this position?"

Zhang Chen glanced at Larry Page and Sergei Brin, and took out a photo from the folder, which showed a rather gentle-aged man wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and a reserved smile.

"Eric Schmidt?Novell's chairman?" Bill Campbell recognized the person in the photo at a glance and immediately shook his head, "Eric is indeed a very good guy, and the background is also very good for Google." But he had only taken over the role of Novell, a company that could compete with Microsoft in the server market, and I could give it a try, but I wasn't sure it would be successful. ”

Bill Campbell was the glue in Silicon Valley circles, and he had a relationship with Schmidt, so he knew something about the small-eyed, handsome man.

Larry Page showed a slightly reluctant expression on his face, he didn't want to find a CEO, he felt that Google's development was very good now, and it might be better to find a CEO from the outside.

But the biggest investors in the world, whether it is Tinder, Sequoia, or KPCB, all think that Larry Page and Sergey Brin are too young and need an experienced person to help them check the gates, and he can only be forced to accept it.

Larry Page was about to say something to drag the matter back when he heard a commotion outside the conference room.

Immediately after, the door of the conference room was slammed open, and a young man wearing a long-sleeved shirt appeared outside the conference room door in a rage.

"Larry, I'm not doing it! I'm doing evil! Is the rule of not doing evil just a slogan?" the young man shouted excitedly, ignoring that Larry Page was in a meeting.

Larry Page and Sergei Brin were surprised and scratched their hair: "Paul, what's going on?"

Zhang Chen recognized this young man as one of Google's earliest employees, named Paul Butchett, who was very skilled, and now the biggest profit points, Adsense and Adodds, were developed by him.

But how to say it, this person is good, but it's a little 。。。。。。 Axis.

Zhang Chen also wanted to see how Larry Page would deal with this situation.

Paul Butchett took a few deep breaths before he managed to calm his anger, "Fred came to me and said that you had agreed to make a change to ADRDS by placing ADADORDS ads from the sidebar above the search results, which would increase our ad revenue. Doing so will make users think that they are at the top of their search results, which is obviously misleading customers! I think Fred completely violates our values, I don't want to do things with this kind of person, he and me, you choose!"

Larry Page habitually scratched his head and nodded: "I just agreed to make technical improvements to adords, not to change the search results, if so, Fred really doesn't fit Google anymore... ”

Larry Page is from a technical background, and people with technical backgrounds certainly believe in technical personnel more, and Larry Page is instinctively disgusted with sales and management personnel, and subconsciously stands on the side of Paul Butchett.

"Don't do evil, who came up with this slogan? Why don't I know?" Zhang Chen really couldn't listen to it anymore and said.

Paul Butchett held his head high and said, "This is what I proposed when we were brainstorming two months ago, and it was unanimously agreed upon, and it is our highest standard. ”

Zhang Chen remained silent: "Oh, don't be evil, it sounds pretty good." However, since it is a criterion, I would like to ask you, what is evil?"

(End of chapter)