D: All Things Digital Conferences
There’s a story going back to the founding of Google: One of the venture capitalists came to [company founders] Larry [Page] and Sergey [Brin] and said, ‘OK, the first thing you have to decide is, is this company going to be run by sales or by marketing?’ They said, ‘We think we’ll take engineering.’ He laughed and said, ‘Oh, you naive college kids, that’s not the way the real world works.’ And they said, ‘Well, we want to try it.’