Google Exec Dave McCann, Central High Graduate, Explains Company Success
January 23, 2009
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Google's Dave McCann
Life has changed a lot since the first e-mail was sent in 1994, Google executive Dave McCann told Rotarians last week.
When McCann graduated from Bay City Central High two years later the electronic revolution was in full swing.
Programmer Barb Dinauer introduced the young techie who works out of Google's Ann Arbor office and still tries to get to Wolves football games here in the fall. "I love being back in Bay City," he said.
One Rotarian observed he was in an interesting spot in Ann Arbor, being "a Spartan in the middle of all those Wolverines."
After graduating from Michigan State University, McCann went on to get a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) at Harvard University. Then it was on to Ford Motor's finance department where he pursued funding strategies worldwide.
McCann joined Google in 2006 as manager of small business solutions, the platform from which he discussed "Helping Michigan Be Successful in the New Economy" at the Rotary Club of Bay City.
Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., reported net income last year at $4.22 billion, up from $2.39 billion the year before, and profit of $5.10 a share, making it one of the nation's most stable companies.
The company said that paid clicks, the number of times that users clicked on advertisements, grew 18 percent from a year earlier.
The e-mail business has grown from the 1994 infancy to 183 billion sent today, Mr. McCann noted. Google's revenues come mainly from advertising that revolves around its search business.
Mr. McCann ran through some of Google's partners with exotic names like sharmusic.com, oDesk, Mobbaility, a platform for group work, Protovation, Lima Beads and those with more prosaic monikers like Parker's Pantry that sells unique items like lamb cake pans.
The global aspects of business today were stressed by Mr. McCann: "The market is not just here," he said. "Talent is mobile, too, so if we don't have jobs for people they're going to move."
Automotive is "still the engine for Michigan," he said, noting that Michigan "once was the New Economy. It's not out of the question it could happen again."
Among services of his company are Google Trends, that tells how popular search results are, Google Docs, that provides updates for web-based processors, AdWords, that allows users to see the effectiveness of advertising and allows tracking of success, and the Google Small Business Center that drives additional business to your site.
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