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

By Richard L. Brandt

How a lot do you actually find out about Google's founders, Larry web page and Sergey Brin?

The Google Guys skips previous the overall Google tale and makes a speciality of what relatively drives the company's founders. Richard L. Brandt indicates the corporate because the brainchild of 2 excellent contributors and appears at Google's company judgements in gentle of its founders' ambition and ideology.

Larry is the most strategist, with company acumen and functional force, whereas Sergey is the first technologist and idealist, with marvelous rules and robust ethical positions. yet they paintings heavily jointly, similar to complementary halves of a unmarried mind.

via interviews with present and previous staff, rivals, companions, and senior Google administration, plus conversations with the founders themselves, Brandt demystifies the corporate whereas clarifying a few misconceptions.

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