The Search Begins

Land of the Giants

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Society & Culture, Business

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Some of the core values that built Google's runaway success — innovative technology to the max, an intellectually playful and open culture, and a corporate aspiration to do good ("Don’t be evil") — set it up for the existential questions it faces today. We examine how two grad students with a plan to search the Internet launched a company that would eventually become the gateway for the Internet for the entire world. Hosts: Shirin Ghaffary (@shiringhaffary) and Alex Kantrowitz (@kantrowitz) Enjoyed this episode? Rate us ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Want to get in touch? Tweet @recode. Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear next week's episode by subscribing in your favorite podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast comes from Slack.
0:03.6	You have to get your work done.
0:05.0	But what if you and your team could do it better?
0:07.9	Slack is a productivity platform that connects all your team members together instantly.
0:12.5	It's built to help your team with a host of features,
0:15.0	like huddles for quick check-ins and clips for recording and sharing video.
0:18.9	Slack also makes it easy to search and find the right information you need.
0:22.8	You can even integrate the apps you use in your normal workflow,
0:25.8	like your calendar or product management tools.
0:28.5	So you stay focused on the work that matters and get more done.
0:31.8	Learn more at slack.com slash productivity.
0:35.4	In 1999, Marissa Meyer was sitting in the most important interview of her life.
0:40.2	It was at a startup called Google.
0:42.5	That meeting was at their conference table in the main conference room at once
0:47.6	ex-five university, which also happened to be a ping pong table.
0:51.1	Meyer would go on to become one of the most prominent executives in Silicon Valley.
0:56.0	From 2012 to 2017, she was CEO of Yahoo.
0:59.8	But back in the late 90s, she was still a student at Stanford
1:03.0	about to graduate with a Master's in computer science.
1:06.0	And Google's co-founder, Sergey Bren, was not going easy on her.
1:10.1	Sergey did all the talking and quizzed me intensely
1:13.8	on a lot of different computer science topics,
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