THE ROOM THEY WERE GIVEN
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THE ROOM THEY WERE GIVEN Book 1
4 parts · 12 h 16 min
Burbank, California, 1933 to 1975. A bricklayer's son from a Michigan iron town talks his way into Lockheed, tells the company its new airliner is unstable, and is proved right.
THE ROOM THEY WERE GIVEN Book 2
4 parts · 14 h 50 min
Tuxedo Park, New York, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1917 to 1946. A Wall Street banker named Alfred Loomis makes a fortune financing electric utilities, sells out before the crash, and spends the money on a physics laboratory in a stone house behind a private gate, where he is answerable to nobody.
THE ROOM THEY WERE GIVEN Book 3
4 parts · 16 h 28 min
New Mexico, 1942 to 1947. An Army engineer who has just finished the Pentagon is given a weapon nobody has built and told to compartment the work so that no man knows more than his own bench.
THE ROOM THEY WERE GIVEN Book 4
4 parts · 14 h 58 min
Palo Alto, California, 1912 to 1996. Two Stanford engineering graduates with five hundred and thirty-eight dollars between them start a company in a rented garage and a shed, and their first real customer is Walt Disney.
THE ROOM THEY WERE GIVEN Book 5
4 parts · 14 h 19 min
Emeryville, California, and King's Cross, London, 1974 to 2024. Ed Catmull spends twenty years making a computer draw a curved surface and then discovers that the hard problem was never the rendering: it was getting a room of talented people to say out loud that the work was not good.
THE ROOM THEY WERE GIVEN Book 6
4 parts · 14 h 52 min
Three organizations built to work without the usual middle. A Seattle banker named Dee Hock assembles a payment system out of banks that compete with one another and gives it no owner at all.