Google Likes To Invest In “Crazy Ideas”
Apr 13, 2007 at 8:02am ET by Barry Schwartz
Google’s Acquisitions Chief Looking for ‘Crazy’ Ideas from Bloomberg.com reports Salman Ullah, Google’s director of corporate development, as saying he considers investing in crazy ideas because those are ones that can become big successes.
Ullah said, “the really crazy ones do really well,” explaining that “when you free yourselves from these constraints,” the limitations set forth from some of the crazy ideas, “you create crazy, cool things.”
The article also reports that Google has 15 people who meet with dozens of companies each week about ideas and acquisition opportunities.
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