Google Guys Inside the Brilliant Minds of Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Name: Google Guys Inside the Brilliant Minds of Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin
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ISBN: 9781591844129

ISBN-10: 1591844126

ISBN-13: 9781591844129

Edition: 2011

Authors: Richard L. Brandt

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How much do you really know about Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin? The Google Guysskips past the general Google story and focuses on what really drives the company's founders. Richard L. Brandt shows the company as the brainchild of two brilliant individuals and looks at Google's business decisions in light of its founders' ambition and beliefs. Larry is the main strategist, with business acumen and practical drive, while Sergey is the primary technologist and idealist, with brilliant ideas and strong moral positions. But they work closely together, almost like complementary halves of a single brain. Through interviews with current and former employees, competitors, partners,…

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List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/28/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.13" wide x 7.63" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Lisa Chaney has lectured and tutored in the history of art and literature, made TV and radio broadcasts on the history of culture, and reviewed and written for journals and newspapers, including The Sunday Times, the Spectator and the Guardian. She is the author of three biographies: Elizabeth David, Hide-and-Seek With Angels: The Life of J.M. Barrie, and Chanel: An Intimate Life.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The World's Librarians



Arbiters of Cyberspace



Accidental Entrepreneurs



Controlled Chaos



Larry and Sergey's Corporate Vision



Advertising for the Masses



A Heartbreaking IPO of Staggering Genius



The China Syndrome: Google as Big Brother



What About Privacy?



The Ruthless Librarians



The Google Cloud



Google, the Telephone Company?



Thinking Beyond Search: The World's Problems, Real and Fanciful


Afterword to the Paperback Edition Google: The New Microsoft


Notes


Index