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A weekend at Brown's graduation in Providence turned into a surprisingly good debate about Google, advertising, and whether working on ad tech is selling your soul or just understanding how the world works.
Google started with a $100,000 check written to a company that did not yet exist, in a garage that its founders were renting for $1,700 a month. It is now worth over two trillion dollars, processes more searches every day than there are people on earth, and has quietly built one of the most dominant business models in the history of capitalism. Here is the full story.
In 1993, three engineers founded a chip company in a Denny's booth. Thirty years later, that company became the first in history to reach a five trillion dollar market capitalization. This is the story of how Jensen Huang turned a graphics card company into the backbone of the AI revolution, and why the strategic decisions he made decades before anyone understood them matter more than any product he has ever shipped.
As software engineers, we are taught to iterate, optimize, and scale. But Peter Thiel’s Zero to One argues that true progress doesn't come from a 10% improvement—it comes from creating something entirely new.
Jeff Bezos did not build a bookstore. He built a machine that builds machines. The story of Amazon is the story of one of the most disciplined, ruthless, and visionary business strategies in the history of capitalism.