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THE LARGEST THINGS WE BUILT Book 3

By Odile Ferrand · 4 parts · 15 h 7 min · English

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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. Fifteen years later the company that grew out of it pays a reported several hundred million dollars for a forty-person London laboratory whose founders promise to solve intelligence and have shipped no product at all. Between the two purchases lie a crawl that keeps breaking, an advertising auction the founders did not want to build, a share structure written to keep outsiders from voting, and a board game played in a Seoul hotel. The account turns on what it costs to hold an unprofitable idea long enough, and on who is made to wait while it is held. Covers Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Demis Hassabis, Google, and DeepMind.

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  1. Part 01

    3:21:17

  2. Part 02

    3:36:48

  3. Part 03

    4:25:38

  4. Part 04

    3:43:36

Books in this series

  1. THE LARGEST THINGS WE BUILT Book 1

    4 parts · 16 h 0 min

  2. THE LARGEST THINGS WE BUILT Book 2

    4 parts · 15 h 9 min

  3. THE LARGEST THINGS WE BUILT Book 3

    4 parts · 15 h 7 min

  4. THE LARGEST THINGS WE BUILT Book 4

    4 parts · 14 h 25 min

  5. THE LARGEST THINGS WE BUILT Book 5

    4 parts · 13 h 42 min

  6. THE LARGEST THINGS WE BUILT Book 6

    4 parts · 13 h 6 min