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Acquired · Google · Overview

Google

Treated as a four-part company across the catalogue.

4 episodes1 hooksSearch Ads Platforms industry

Origin

Founded1998FoundersLarry Page, Sergey BrinLocationMenlo Park, California (Susan Wojcicki's garage)

TODO: 1-sentence on the PageRank bet and what it replaced.

Hooks from these episodes

Google is profitable enough to build its own data centres, its own servers, and its own undersea cables — which gives it cost advantages competitors can't replicate even with the same architectural decisions.

The four-part Google series treats the company as four businesses, not one.