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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.