THE MISSION AND THE PAYROLL
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THE MISSION AND THE PAYROLL Book 1
4 parts · 13 h 14 min
New Orleans, Boston and Mountain View, 1976 to 2016. A hedge fund analyst tutors a seventh-grade cousin over a telephone line and a shared scratchpad, posts the overflow to a video site because it is the only free way to host anything, and finds strangers watching.
THE MISSION AND THE PAYROLL Book 2
4 parts · 14 h 46 min
Huntsville, San Diego, St. Petersburg and San Francisco, 1966 to 2016. An options trader builds a web portal that sells advertising beside photographs of women, and spends its cash on a free encyclopedia written by credentialed experts under seven stages of review.
THE MISSION AND THE PAYROLL Book 3
4 parts · 13 h 9 min
San Francisco, 2015 to 2025. A charity is announced at a machine-learning conference with a billion dollars pledged, no product, no revenue and a promise that whatever it built would belong to everyone.
THE MISSION AND THE PAYROLL Book 4
4 parts · 15 h 12 min
Wilton, New Hampshire, and Minneapolis, 1979 to 2024. A non-profit school that teaches organic dairy farming runs out of money, buys seven cows, and starts selling yogurt to pay for the teaching. The teaching closes.
THE MISSION AND THE PAYROLL Book 5
4 parts · 15 h 12 min
Swat, Islamabad, Birmingham, New York and Boston, 1963 to 2024. A twenty-two-year-old Pakistani consultant leaves a McKinsey project in Cairo after a schoolgirl she had mentored is shot on a school van, and builds a foundation on the girl's name before the girl has finished recovering.
THE MISSION AND THE PAYROLL Book 6
4 parts · 15 h 49 min
Buenos Aires and Los Angeles, Atlanta and rural El Salvador, 2002 to 2024. A Texan with four failed-and-sold businesses behind him watches a shoe drive in Argentina and works out that a donation can be sold as a feature of a product.