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Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don’t know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.

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Sergey Brin
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 21
Business Executive
Computer Scientist
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Moscow
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Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin
Sergey Mikhailovich Brin
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