Sunday, September 18, 2011

How Google Grew Into An Online Goliath

September 16, 2011

NPR

Listen to the Story:
http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/totn/2011/09/20110916_totn_04.mp3

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.

Source article & transcript: http://goo.gl/Ll2m8