Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt on what many of the greatest products have in common
"If you think about the greatest products, they've almost always been designed for the benefit of the people who are actually building them."
Uber is one example. The original Uber was a private timeshare limousine service for Garrett Camp and his friends.
Google is another:
“Larry and Sergey built Google for Stanford—and particularly for themselves. The server was in Larry’s dorm room…. They opened up the server for the entire campus, and the usage was phenomenal. Andy Bechtolsheim heard about it through David Cheriton and wrote a $100,000 check. They didn’t have a name for a company… Sergey left it in his wallet for a month until they had the name Google invented.”
Video source: @GreylockVC (2015)