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Fortune interviews Larry Page & Sergey Brin

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt take Google’s reputation seriously. When informed that Google would be named the best company to work for, for the second year running, they agreed to sit for a rare three-way interview with Fortune’s Adam Lashinsky. Here are snippets of the hourlong chat.How do you maintain Google’s culture as the company gets bigger and bigger?

Page: I think as we get bigger, the way we’re going to try to maintain our culture is to make sure we have the right-sized groups. I just visited our new office in the Seattle area. It really felt like Google felt when we were a couple hundred people. There is sort of a natural size for human organizations, and I think to the extent we’re able to create groups that are those sizes, we can retain a lot of that culture.

Brin: I actually don’t think keeping the culture is a goal. I think improving the culture is. We shouldn’t be, like, looking back to our golden years and saying, “Oh, I wish it was the same.”

read the rest published by Fortune here:

http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/18/news/companies/google.fortune/index.htm