Andrea Zurek - Google´s first sales employee, (Business) Angel and Gumball Driver…
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Today I had the luck to attend a interesting presentation of Andrea Zurek. She was the first sales employee and a leading executive at Google until she recently left the company. She started angel investing in start-ups like BluBet.com and joined Sand Hill Angels, a Palo Alto-based network of individual Investors. Beyond the work with her investments she`s a licensed formula one driver and attended the gumball rally last year…
In her presentation she focused on the cultural and structural mechanisms that provide the DNA which enable Googles huge growth and efficiency. That reminded me to a great article about Google`s marketing. I have huge respect for the long-term vision, which the founders and early stage employees of Google had, when they build the (social and structural) architecture of Google at a time when nobody could really predict that amount of growth.
That`s really visionary entrepreneurship and goes even far beyond that (large) amount of vision what it needs to built, grow and sale “only” a medium-sized player for a more or less specific market.
Despite the attraction of the challenge to find (and pursue) an opportunity that could be the basis for the next Google I will concentrate my energy (at least for the next time 
) on medium-sized companies…
I look forward to meet Andrea again and would like to provide you with an interview on Gruenderszene.de.