Google Part II: Alphabet

Are you intentionally wearing a black turtleneck for this one? No. It is actually gonna be one of my carve outs, though. Yeah, amazing. What you think I dress up like Steve Jobs for a Google episode? Well I thought'cause of the you know war between Android and uh I I walk in and there's this like smirk on your face. Alright, let's do it. Who got the truth?

Is it you, is it you, is it you who got No. Is it you, is it you, is it you Down.

Another story on the way Welcome to the summer twenty twenty five season of acquired, the podcast about great companies and the stories and playbooks behind them. I'm Ben Gilbert. I'm David Rosenthal, and we are your hosts. In the late nineteen nineties, Google built the best search engine for the rapidly growing internet. With a breakthrough search algorithm, low-cost servers based on commodity hardware, and the best business model of all time, search ads. They turned that search engine into a cash gushing business and took it public in two thousand and four.

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