The eighth person hired at Google, and its first vice president of engineering, talked today about how the world’s largest Internet company nearly failed.

Urs Holzle, senior vice president of technical infrastructure and a Google Fellow, spoke today at the Collision conference in Las Vegas about avoiding failure, not being lazy and when Google will “turn on the faucet” for its cloud business .

Google's Urs Holzle

Google’s Urs Holzle.

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