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Sep. 16, 2011
How Google Grew Into An Online Goliath
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| Google’s founders built a giant company based on certain principles: Make decisions based on data. Search should be fast and automatic. Keep as much company information private as possible. In his book In the Plex, Steven Levy discusses how these values shaped Google into what it is today. |
Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer
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Steven Levy
Author, "In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives" (Simon & Schuster, 2011)
Senior Writer, Wired
New York, New York
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