Before launching Gmail, many inside Google doubted its value and predicted failure, but we must not let such voices drag us down.

In 1997, Larry and Sergey tried to sell Google for a million dollars, but the conventional wisdom was that search was neither important nor valuable.

In 2000, Google was a startup with a small team, and I remember working late nights and weekends, which was the culture back then.

When I joined Google in 1999, it was a small startup with an electric atmosphere, and I was excited to work on big projects.

After selling our company to Google, we planned to rebuild our photo roll idea with Google technology to create Google Photos, and I was optimistic about its success.

In 2016, OpenAI was seen as a long shot compared to Google in 1999, with many doubting its chances of success.

Google's success was largely due to its product being the brand, as it gained traction without spending on marketing, unlike many other tech companies.

Google started as a research project at Stanford called Backrub, and when Larry Page and Sergey Brin tried to sell it to big internet companies, they were rejected because no one thought search was important.

When I became CEO, the dotcom bubble was bursting, antitrust issues dominated the company's culture, and we faced a significant accounting headache that affected profitability.