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1.] Google is a great place to start.

While reading the interview, I have come to realize the multitude of benefits when it comes to technically starting-up or founding an enterprise inside Google. I learned from Buchheit’s experience that resource-wise, Google is a great place to start. First, the infrastructure is not a problem. Google can afford or even allocate existing machines to support the development of your proposed technology. Next, in Google, a founder doesn’t have a hard time to find an investor due to the fact that its co-founders, Sergey and Larry will go all the way to support and even contribute and suggest to the project development. And lastly, and perhaps the most vital, is the finest people resource. When you say that you work for Google, it is sort of a reward and a compliment, for a prestigious IT company such as this only hires the cream of the crop talents around. So it is not critical area of concern in hiring people that will best aid you in the start-up process. This leads to one generalization: I’d like to work for Google.  As what I have read in the interview and in articles, and as I have done research lately on Google, I believe that the company caters to budding specialist on IT and computers. It hosts to a number of facilities and it boasts of its pool of talented and competent employees. Google possesses the environment and culture that will allow people to think innovatively and yet with a dose of practicality and awareness of the future. As I have read in the articles, it is the best, yes number 1, place to work for (Fortune 2007). The people are empowered and energized, the culture is endearing and less ‘corporate’, and it is growing exponentially in all resource areas. I was even delighted to know that they are implementing a 70-20-10 time management rule for all employees. And it is a very productive idea seemingly through the records Google is plotting on the charts. Buchheit’s interview was an additional story to what further adds to my fascination for Google at this point. I had a grasp of what it was like to work, think, and live at Google.

2.] Gmail wasn’t wholly accepted internally

Buchheit shared that his ideas was resisted by co-workers at first because it was an apparently very ambitious endeavor. Let us take a look at Gmail now. It has a huge memory capacity for Emails, and it has features that are user-friendly and convenient for basic Email tasks. Although I use my Yahoo account most of the time, I can’t argue that Gmail’s services are far more appealing to Internet users. My point is that, if Buchheit didn’t follow through with his concepts against the people’s risk-averse convictions, there wouldn’t have been an amazing web-based Email service existent today, such as Gmail. It had resistance on the platform (which was Javascript), the electronics, and even after the launching - the addition of new features. It just tells that even at a very intelligent place like Google, a founder will always have a party of disagreeing people. It takes more than just pure brains to fuel a vision, most especially in start-ups, for it takes a lot of guts. Yes guts, the more you have, the more you can thrive in such scene. The common tenet of founders throughout the interviews that I have read is that the more daring the founder is, or the more he is not daunted by risks and uncertainties, the more he is appearing on the limelight later. Buchheit is another curious character, but he is a highly skilled one. Another interesting element of the interview is how he easily manages to accomplish tasks that he is really into. He created AdSense in a day and so are the basics of Gmail (with the help of Google Groups code). He just had the right calling to follow his instincts despite resistance and he soon found himself smooth-sailing even after the Gmail launching.

3.] Google is not just search :)

All the time, my only basic knowledge on Google was their search and Email, neither did I know that they are hosting a lot of great tools, applications, and products. The readings made me curious about Google that for the past days, I have been downloading Google stuff into my laptop. I have found out their a lot, I mean a lot, of Google products already available for download on the web and I was unaware of them all the time. I discovered that they are really great. All the stuff that I have installed are really functional, simple yet sleek, and of quality performance. I may already label my computer as a Google PC . I just realized for myself that I need to really update with developing web technologies because for a short period of time, hundreds of web tools and applications are being offered to users and it such a shortcoming as an IS student that I am not at pace with the progress. At least now, my unawareness of evolution of the Internet is getting into my nerves that I need to get at par with the technologies. This means I need to reconfigure my perception of Internet only as a tool for social networking and chatting. There is a bigger world out there that I can freely access to my and for my personal convenience. The Buccheit interview became an instrument for me to do more going-with-the-flow in terms of dealing with Internet and web technology advancements.