In Google's early days, founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin argued that answering email complaints would be a waste of time. Google's customer service remains a problem today.
Google’s top executives -- Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergey Brin -- each drew a salary of $1 in 2006, a year the company's revenue grew 73% to $10.6 billion and net income more than doubled.
When The Guardian recently interviewed Google co-founder Sergey Brin as a teaser for its weeklong series of articles about the "Battle for the Internet," the publication got a good headline out of it: "Google's Brin: threats to web freedom 'greater then ever.'"
Google's Founders' Letter was an exception this year for the fact that it was penned by Google CEO Sundar Pichai rather than Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt didn't receive a bonus or any new stock or option awards in 2008. Nor did Larry Page or Sergey Brin, who each took a $1 salary and nothing more.