"In 1999, Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, introduced Kleiner Perkins to two young Stanford graduates, Larry Page and Sergey Brin."

"Larry and Sergey brought a 17-page presentation to us — just two pages had numbers. (They added three cartoons just to flesh out the deck.)"

"As the eighteenth search engine, they were late to the party. There was no business model, no team, but an audacious ambition and compelling founders."

"When John Doerr asked how big Google would be, they responded, ""$10 billion."" John thought they meant market cap, but they confidently asserted $10 billion in annual revenue! We invested with the biggest check in our history."

"John also introduced resources to help Google deal with its rapid growth, such as Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for establishing priorities and stretch goals, and the legendary executive coach, Bill Campbell, to develop the team's leadership skills."

"What matters most is their passion -- their focus on serving a large, unmet market need with an outstanding team and disruptive innovation. Their commitment to technical excellence, and obsessing on customers (not competition). Their pursuit of reasonable financings, but unreasonable, audacious goals. Their sense of urgency. Their ambition, vision, confidence and humility in putting their team first. They must be missionaries, not mercenaries."

"43 years ago, Andy Grove shared the single most important lesson of my career with me. He said, “John, it almost doesn’t matter what you know…it’s execution that matters most.” Andy invented a powerful system to drive execution called Objectives and Key Results, or OKRs."