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"All It Took Was One E-Mail to Larry," Says Former eBay Research Director As He Moves to Google

Louis Monier Made Himself Available to Larry Page
By Jeremy Geelan
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June 25, 2005 01:00 PM EDT
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“The main reason for me to leave is that eBay does not absorb innovation at the pace I enjoy, and its focus is narrower than Google. So rather than chewing on variations of e-commerce for the next few years, I’m very tempted to play with radically new stuff: satellites images, machine translation, ways to extract knowledge from giant bodies of data," said Louis Monier (pictured), when asked in an interview recently why he was jumping ship and leaving eBay for Google, Inc.

"And frankly," Monier continued, "I’m dying to peek under the hood and see the infrastructure they have created. For someone like me, it’s the ultimate Christmas toy.”

When asked, by interviewer John Battelle, whether Google recruited him, Monier answered:

"I have known Larry and Sergei forever, I want to believe that I had a standing invitation. All it took was one e-mail to Larry."

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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series, of the International Virtualization Conference & Expo series, of AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, and of the long-running SOAWorld Conference & Expo series. He's founder of Cloud Computing Journal, Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.

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News Desk 06/25/05 02:21:56 PM EDT

"All It Took Was One E-Mail to Larry," Says Former eBay Research Director As He Moves to Google. 'The main reason for me to leave is that eBay does not absorb innovation at the pace I enjoy, and its focus is narrower than Google,' said former eBay Research Director Louis Monier, when asked why he was switching from eBay to Google, Inc.