'We'll expect more of what they call 'moon shots' from Google. Levy says that trend will continue, along with even bigger, bolder projects. Page has been seen as the 'geek visionary' of Google since its inception, coming up with many of the company's most creative ideas. So it will be interesting to see what happens when Eric's hand doesn't really reach over to Larry's shoulder and say, 'Maybe, Larry, not now,' which has happened a lot over the years.' Eric's job was to sit back with a rudder and steer that ambition and those huge goals and sometimes audacious projects that Larry would set Google on. Even while Eric was CEO, it was Larry whose obsession with speed and scale and ambition and artificial intelligence - those were the things that Google engineers held up as ideals there. 'But in a way, Larry's values have always been the core values of Google. 'I think Larry will do things differently,' Levy says. So it keeps thinking of innovative ways to pretend that it is a small company with the hunger and nimbleness of a startup.' 'But to continue to succeed as it has been, it really has to think and act and be nimble like a smaller company than it really is. 'Google is in the position of denying gravity in a way, and its ironic, because it is a company that prides itself on looking at data and logic,' Levy tells Morning Edition host Renee Montagne. Steven Levy, a senior writer at Wired and author of the new book In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives, says Page is taking over a company that is much more conventional than when it started. Page once said: 'Google is not a conventional company, and we do not intend to become one.' But it's now a public company with more than 20,000 employees, making tens of billions of dollars. Although Page has remained a key decision-maker, he is taking the lead of a company that is very different from the one he helped found 13 years ago. Google is getting a new CEO: Larry Page - who who co-founded Google as a young Stanford postgraduate and was briefly CEO before handing the position to the more experienced manager, Eric Schmidt - is now taking the reins.

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