Learn Inaugurating Our Novel French Headquarters
Last year, our Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt promised to opened upward a enquiry together with evolution together with civilisation midpoint inwards France. Today, Eric returned to Paris to inaugurate our novel 10,000-square meter purpose inwards a refurbished 19th century Second Empire building almost the St. Lazare Train Station.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy honored us alongside his presence. “Why equally President, practice I brand this symbolic deed together with come upward to Google?" he asked rhetorically to a packed courtyard auditorium. “I dear the United States, together with its motto that everything is possible any your origins.” President Sarkozy also officially launched the Elysee Palace’s YouTube channel together with his view was shown on YouTube Live, the department of the site where nosotros listing all alive streamed events.
The President participated inwards a Google+ Hangout, taking questions from French-speaking Googlers some the world. (“What fourth dimension is it there?” he asked somebody dialing inwards from California.) On a serious note, he expressed his gratification for how Google has moved to dig deep roots inwards France. “When I get-go met Eric, nosotros had a frank conversation,” he recalled, maxim his message was clear. “I asked him how long Google was preparing to brand coin inwards French Republic without investing here. I told him that Google must take away keep its feet inwards France.”
Our novel Paris purpose is emblematic of our commitment to i of Europe’s fastest-growing Internet economies. According to a recent McKinsey report that nosotros helped sponsor, the spider web contributed to 3.2 percentage of the French gross domestic product inwards 2009 together with created to a greater extent than than 700,000 jobs during the yesteryear fifteen years. Between instantly together with 2015, McKinsey estimates that the digital contribution volition grow to 5.5 percentage of GDP, together with 450,000 additional jobs volition survive created. In club to aid accelerate the French digital engine, we’ve launched a Startup Café, an online platform offering data together with tools.
Our investment project design for French Republic is ambitious, together with extends far beyond buildings. We’re expanding our technology scientific discipline presence to take away keep wages of France’s potent technology scientific discipline talent puddle together with are making meaning academic investments, including a partnership alongside the French national enquiry middle CNRS.
French Republic is a global cultural leader together with we’re working difficult to partner alongside French writers, filmmakers together with musicians. Over the yesteryear year, we've reached an understanding alongside the biggest French publisher Hachette to scan together with sell digital versions of out-of-print books together with are providing payment systems for French intelligence publishers from Hachette. YouTube has signed royalty-collection agreements alongside music copyright societies together with our novel Cultural Institute volition survive located inwards the Paris headquarters. It volition aim at driving excogitation inwards cultural preservation, creation together with access, non simply inwards France, but across the world.
Just earlier the President left, he asked to state a few finally words. He praised our “dynamism” together with wished good our expanded operations, earlier making a parting promise. “I hope this inauguration is i of a long series,” he said. “If y'all invite me to some other edifice opening, I volition come.”
(Cross-posted from the European Public Policy Blog)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy honored us alongside his presence. “Why equally President, practice I brand this symbolic deed together with come upward to Google?" he asked rhetorically to a packed courtyard auditorium. “I dear the United States, together with its motto that everything is possible any your origins.” President Sarkozy also officially launched the Elysee Palace’s YouTube channel together with his view was shown on YouTube Live, the department of the site where nosotros listing all alive streamed events.
The President participated inwards a Google+ Hangout, taking questions from French-speaking Googlers some the world. (“What fourth dimension is it there?” he asked somebody dialing inwards from California.) On a serious note, he expressed his gratification for how Google has moved to dig deep roots inwards France. “When I get-go met Eric, nosotros had a frank conversation,” he recalled, maxim his message was clear. “I asked him how long Google was preparing to brand coin inwards French Republic without investing here. I told him that Google must take away keep its feet inwards France.”
Our novel Paris purpose is emblematic of our commitment to i of Europe’s fastest-growing Internet economies. According to a recent McKinsey report that nosotros helped sponsor, the spider web contributed to 3.2 percentage of the French gross domestic product inwards 2009 together with created to a greater extent than than 700,000 jobs during the yesteryear fifteen years. Between instantly together with 2015, McKinsey estimates that the digital contribution volition grow to 5.5 percentage of GDP, together with 450,000 additional jobs volition survive created. In club to aid accelerate the French digital engine, we’ve launched a Startup Café, an online platform offering data together with tools.
Our investment project design for French Republic is ambitious, together with extends far beyond buildings. We’re expanding our technology scientific discipline presence to take away keep wages of France’s potent technology scientific discipline talent puddle together with are making meaning academic investments, including a partnership alongside the French national enquiry middle CNRS.
French Republic is a global cultural leader together with we’re working difficult to partner alongside French writers, filmmakers together with musicians. Over the yesteryear year, we've reached an understanding alongside the biggest French publisher Hachette to scan together with sell digital versions of out-of-print books together with are providing payment systems for French intelligence publishers from Hachette. YouTube has signed royalty-collection agreements alongside music copyright societies together with our novel Cultural Institute volition survive located inwards the Paris headquarters. It volition aim at driving excogitation inwards cultural preservation, creation together with access, non simply inwards France, but across the world.
Just earlier the President left, he asked to state a few finally words. He praised our “dynamism” together with wished good our expanded operations, earlier making a parting promise. “I hope this inauguration is i of a long series,” he said. “If y'all invite me to some other edifice opening, I volition come.”
(Cross-posted from the European Public Policy Blog)