Q: Larry, you're a CEO at 27. What challenges or frustrations have you experienced in reaching this station at such a young age?

Larry Page:

I think the age is a real issue. It's certainly a handicap in the sense of being able to manage people and to hire people and all these kinds of things- maybe, you know, more so than it should be. Certainly I think things that, you know, I'm missing are, you know, more things that you acquire with time. If you manage people for 20 years or something like that, you know, you pick up things. So I certainly lack experience there, and that's an issue.

But I sort of make up for that, I think, in terms of understanding where things are going to go, having a vision about the future, and really understanding the industry I'm in and what the company does, and also sort of the unique position of starting a company, and working on it for three years before starting the company…. then working on it pretty hard, whatever, 24 hours a day.

So I understand a lot of the aspects pretty well. I guess that compensates a little bit for lack of skills in other areas.

Q: Larry, you're a CEO at 27. What challenges or frustrations have you experienced in reaching this station at such a young age?

Larry Page:

I think the age is a real issue. It's certainly a handicap in the sense of being able to manage people and to hire people and all these kinds of things- maybe, you know, more so than it should be. Certainly I think things that, you know, I'm missing are, you know, more things that you acquire with time. If you manage people for 20 years or something like that, you know, you pick up things. So I certainly lack experience there, and that's an issue.

But I sort of make up for that, I think, in terms of understanding where things are going to go, having a vision about the future, and really understanding the industry I'm in and what the company does, and also sort of the unique position of starting a company, and working on it for three years before starting the company…. then working on it pretty hard, whatever, 24 hours a day.

So I understand a lot of the aspects pretty well. I guess that compensates a little bit for lack of skills in other areas.