When asked at Google yesterday how Obama supporters could convince their friends to vote for the young senator despite his supposed lack of experience, Barack compared his campaign to Google itself, whose founders started the company in grad school.
"Sergey and Larry didn't have a lot of experience starting a Fortune 100 company," Obama said. "I suppose when they came in and started talking to (Google's current general counsel) Dave Drummond about starting a company, he could have said, 'They don't know what they're doing."
I think this is a great analogy-- not because running the country is all that similar to running a technology company, but because it gets to the heart of a very basic question: What does it take to be a leader? Certainly experience helps, but pointing to the industry and innovation in this country reveals that Americans truly value the notion that anyone should have a chance to prove himself or herself as a leader.
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