THE LARGEST THINGS WE BUILT
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THE LARGEST THINGS WE BUILT Book 1
4 parts · 16 h 0 min
Santa Clara County, 1993 to 2016. Three engineers leave secure jobs to build a chip for a market that does not exist, ship a first product that is architecturally wrong, and come within one payroll of closing. What follows is not a rise.
THE LARGEST THINGS WE BUILT Book 2
4 parts · 15 h 9 min
California, 1985 to 1998. Steve Jobs leaves Apple at thirty, takes five colleagues with him, and spends the next eleven years building a computer that almost nobody buys.
THE LARGEST THINGS WE BUILT Book 3
4 parts · 15 h 7 min
Stanford and London, 1995 to 2016. Two graduate students build a search engine out of a citation-counting idea and then spend four years unable to say how it will ever make money.
THE LARGEST THINGS WE BUILT Book 4
4 parts · 14 h 25 min
Seattle, Albuquerque, Boca Raton and Bellevue, 1968 to 1995. Two boys with access to a rented teletype terminal learn to write software in a decade when software is not a product, is not protected, and is given away with the hardware it runs on.
THE LARGEST THINGS WE BUILT Book 5
4 parts · 13 h 42 min
Seattle, 1994 to 2021. A hedge fund employee quits to sell books over a network almost nobody shops on, and then does something stranger than the business itself: he writes down, once a year, in a signed public document, exactly what he intends to do and why it will look like failure.
THE LARGEST THINGS WE BUILT Book 6
4 parts · 13 h 6 min
El Segundo and Cambridge, 2001 to 2012.