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They argued that there was no way to make money from a search engine but relented when Monier sold them on the public relations aspect.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Sergey Brin | All-In Summit 2024
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The company had leased the building two months earlier, outgrowing a space above an ice-cream parlor in downtown Palo Alto. Two months before that, I’d placed my biggest bet in nineteen years as a venture capitalist, an $11.8 million wager for 12 percent of a start-up founded by a pair of Stanford grad school dropouts. I joined Google’s board. I wa
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smart, ambitious operators who could channel the wishes of Page and Brin.
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A strategic shift was under way at Google. The company had determined its video site should present media tailored just so for every viewer, the way social networks did.
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To be sure, it is those entrepreneurs—people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Michael Dell in the personal computer era; Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Mark Zuckerberg in the web era—who saw that this world driven by a passion for discovery and sharing could become the cradle of a new economy.