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Robert X. Cringely' [create Peak Google Theory]: "Larry and Sergey know too well the story of Yahoo!'s boneheaded purchase of [create Broadcast.com], making [create Mark Cuban] an instant billionaire and an affliction on both reality TV and the NBA. I blame Yahoo for that, and Google is working hard to learn from Yahoo's mistakes."

Max Levchin, quoted: "What you want to do [...] is listen to your customers and bring out every two weeks improved versions that would each take your competitor two months to complete. That's when you are on a rocket -- they can't keep up so they can't compete. They lose hope and pretty soon you have the market pretty much to yourself."

Back to Cringely: "[Google is] famously paranoid, sure, but they'd be a lot less paranoid if it didn't make them famous. Google, like Microsoft, is a brand built at least partially on envy, which you know is a sin."