Adapted from Marissa

Mayer’s Presentation

How

Google

Powered

Its Success

• Work on problems that matter

• Have really big impact on people’s lives

through products that people use everyday

• Great team: work with great people and

hire a great team

• If you have a really big idea - that can be

explained easily - and a really great team

then it is okay to sweat it out in long hours

• Put in all nighters – once or twice a week.

• Sweat out the small things. People really

underestimate the small things.

• A lot of people think that Google just

happened.

• Google didn’t just happen. It was really lot

of hard work.

• Key results

• Have we reached a certain milestone

within last quarter?

• Stretch Goals

• What are people hoping to contribute in

the coming quarter?

• Key results are very measurable:

• Has the product rolled out by June 15th?

• How do you deal with quarterly roadmaps

vs monthly roadmaps vs weekly roadmaps?

• Its interesting to see how the structure of

your roadmaps defines how fast you are

able to move as a company

• Product roadmaps are the planning we do

in advance

• Its important to move fast. More frequent a

train runs more things get on it. Its really

important to ship fast

• Snippets: Monday morning email

• Every Monday morning every developer

sends an email with a bulleted list of what

they did last week

• What Google does is gather those emails,

publish them on a webpage and make it

searchable.

• This allows people to find other people

from within the company who are working

on something, someone who has thought

of an idea in the past.

• It reduces redundancy.

• 20 % time:

• Give one day a week to people to work on

whatever they want to.

• Isn’t this like giving away 20 % of

productivity?

• 20 % idea is controversial.

• Most people think why not once a month

or two days in a quarter?

• But what's interesting is how people can

be given a license to be creative.

• ‘20 % time’ tells people that what you do is

important. What you think is important.

• 50 % of Google’s launches during a period

of six months came from the top down

initiatives.

• What’s amazing is rest 50 % came from

20 % time.

• That’s about it.