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Eric Schmidt on Why Great Products Start with Solving Your Own Problems

1 min read Published Oct 2, 2025

As former Google CEO Eric Schmidt explains:

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

Take Uber, for instance — it began as a private timeshare limousine service created by Garrett Camp for himself and his friends.

Or consider Google:

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