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“Can Google Solve Death?” “We need moon shots,” Larry would say, big, world-changing ideas and initiatives, to make employees excited about innovating again. (Curing cancer wasn’t necessarily a moon shot, he once suggested, since it would only extend the average human life span by about three years.) His aphorisms stacked up like motivational posters in a middle-school science classroom—“Have a healthy disregard for the impossible,” “If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things”—but Larry seemed to experience them all as fresh revelations, and he expected them to invigorate the workforce in turn. He loved to tell a story about how he’d read an autobiography of Nikola Tesla when he was around twelve, and cried—he really emphasized the crying bit—because Tesla died poor. (This, I guess, taught him the all-important life lesson “Commercialize those inventions.”) “Computers should do the hard work,” Larry would repeat, so humans can get back to doing what humans do best: learning, living, and loving.
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At the Inauguration, Sundar and Sergey sat behind the President alongside Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos. Google, like many companies, slashed mentions of “inclusion” and “equity” on its websites and ended its diversity hiring targets. Sergey was named to Trump’s White House tech council and dined at Mar-a-Lago with, in the President’s words, his “wonderful MAGA girlfriend.”
