When I did Google Wave, everyone had to be in Sydney, and a lot people actually traveled there to be part of it. There was a lot of isolation. There were a lot of things we kept secret from the company while working on Wave - just like you would at a startup.

Lars Rasmussen

Both search and social have these distribution angles to them. Before social, if you wanted any sort of traffic on the web, it had to come from search.

Lars Rasmussen

When I did Google Wave, everyone had to be in Sydney, and a lot people actually traveled there to be part of it. There was a lot of isolation. There were a lot of things we kept secret from the company while working on Wave - just like you would at a startup.

Lars Rasmussen

It feels to me that Facebook may be a sort of once-in-a-decade type of company.

Lars Rasmussen

Our communication space is very fragmented today. We have a million different tools for different things with lots of different kinds of overlaps. The most natural way to try and solve that problem is to take all those different tools and try to make them smaller and fit into a single package and maybe integrate them across the boundaries.

Lars Rasmussen

Everyone loves to run with music in their ears, but when the music becomes adaptive, the music plays a more important role in the experience.

Lars Rasmussen

We believe we can put out the best products if our engineering workforce has the same characteristics as our user.

Lars Rasmussen

When you look at my life, I spent a lot of time communicating and collaborating and co-ordinating.

Lars Rasmussen

Some people are less comfortable than others using their personal Facebook in the work context. With Facebook at Work, you get the option of completely separating the two.

Lars Rasmussen

I still run into people who loved Wave - who thought it was the best ever and can't believe that Google canceled it. And whenever that happens, it's like I'm looking at a mirror-image of myself: someone who is similar to myself in skill, experience, and profession. And that's just not a mass market.

Lars Rasmussen

We are all going to be using search many, many times a day, every day of our lives, forever.

Lars Rasmussen

You can get more stuff done with Facebook than any other tool that we know of, and we'd like to make that available to the whole world.

Lars Rasmussen

Why do we have to live with divides between different types of communication?

Lars Rasmussen

We have found that using Facebook as a work tool makes our work day more efficient.

Lars Rasmussen

The problem we encountered with Wave at Google was that we became very isolated from the rest of the company. And in the time that it took us to build Wave, the rest of the company changed direction. I think that has a lot to do with why the product failed.

Lars Rasmussen

I get lost in my own house - and it's not even a big house.

Lars Rasmussen

In mapping, where I have no sense of direction, my needs are likely to coincide with the needs of lots of people.

Lars Rasmussen

If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

Lars Rasmussen

So, it was a tough decision to leave Facebook, but it was definitely the right decision. I haven't regretted it at all.

Lars Rasmussen

I do believe that you can achieve more if you're willing to take risks.

Lars Rasmussen

There's almost a total correlation between the amount of risk you're willing to take and then the amount of stuff you then potentially can get done.

Lars Rasmussen