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Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
“He was brilliant,”
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
virtually everyone in the United States and everywhere in the wired-up world knew Google.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
web links were like citations in a scholarly article.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
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
Both felt most comfortable in the meritocracy of academia, where brains trumped everything else. Both had an innate understanding of how the ultraconnected world that they enjoyed as computer science (CS) students was about to spread throughout society. Both shared a core belief in the primacy of data.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
“We had worked on many possible new features for years, but no one ever made decisions about them,” he said later. “Suddenly, we had this guy making rapid decisions.”