Ethan Anderson

Five and six million.

I love product.

I think I just gravitate to imagining something that doesn't exist today and thinking about all the different components that have to go into it, from design to engineering, customer acquisition, and spending a lot of time with the customers themselves to understand what they need us to build to make their lives easier.

And to me, that's the heart of innovation, and that's what startups are really about.

Sure.

Oh, wow.

So, okay, so two very big questions.

Yes.

I think the thing that surprised me the most about Google is on my very first day, I was, they gave me a choice of whether I wanted to do marketing or product management.

So, of course, I chose product.

I think that's unusual that Google is growing so fast.

They needed people in every role.

And my job was to internationalize.

What was that?

What year was this?

Oh, this is back in 2006, January.

And so they said, you know, we need someone to internationalize this brand new product called Google Video.

It's our competitor to YouTube.

We want to, you know, own online video.

And we just launched it in the U.S., the Consumer Electronics Show.