Eric Schmidt on what many of the greatest products have in common

As the former CEO of Google explains in the clip below:

"If you think about the greatest products, they've almost always been designed for the benefit of the people who are actually building them."

Uber is one example. The original Uber was a private timeshare limousine service for Garrett Camp and his friends.

Google is another:

“Larry and Sergey built Google for Stanford—and particularly for themselves. The server was in Larry’s dorm room.”

Source: Greylock “Blitzscaling 08: Eric Schmidt on Structuring Teams and Scaling Google”

P.S. We’ve put together a YouTube playlist with every Eric Schmidt insight we’ve ever shared. You can watch it here: "Best startup advice from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt"