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Everyone in attendance was in a dark suit, and euphoria was in the air. In a buffet line, one gentleman with silver hair told another, “I haven’t felt this smart since 1968.” He added, “If we start thinking it’s our brains, we’re in trouble.” That sort of self-admonishment was the voice of the minority, however. Self-congratulation was the theme th
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Jenson and Bezos were at loggerheads. Jenson had tried to placate angry investors by getting the company to profitability. He raised the last round of capital from European bonds at a critical time and forced Bezos to make tough decisions when the company ’s runway was getting short. But he also pushed to raise prices and campaigned against free shi
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ERIC SCHMIDT Former Chairman, Google/Alphabet
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Ezra Klein • 41 Questions For The Technologies We Use, and That Use Us
he helped start a research group called MIDAS, which stood for Mining Data at Stanford.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
In Google’s early years, Larry Page set aside two days per quarter to personally scrutinize the OKRs for each and every software engineer.