‘I thought I was the next Steve Jobs’: What Google founder Sergey Brin’s career mistake teaches students about mindset – The Times of India

Success stories in tech are often told as clean arcs. An idea forms, a product launches, the world follows. But for students trying to understand how innovation actually works, the more useful lessons often come from what did not go to plan.During a talk at Stanford University marking the engineering school’s centennial year, Sergey Brin, co founder of Google and Alphabet Inc., spoke about one such experience. Brin reflected on why Google Glass failed and what he would do differently.The audience included students eager to build their own companies. One of them asked Brin what mindset aspiring entrepreneurs should adopt to avoid repeating earlier mistakes.His answer was unusually direct. “When you have your cool, new wearable device idea, really fully bake it before you have a cool stunt involving skydiving and airships,” Brin said, Inc. reports.

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