Few companies in history have ever been as successful and as admired as Google, the company that has transformed the Internet and become an indispensable part of our lives. How has Google done it? Veteran technology reporter Steven Levy was granted unprecedented access to the company, and in this revelatory book he takes readers inside Google headquarters—the Googleplex—to show how Google works. While they were still students at Stanford, Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin revolutionized Internet search. They followed this brilliant innovation with another, as two of Google's earliest employees found a way to do what no one else had: make billions of dollars from Internet advertising. With this cash cow (until Google's IPO nobody other than Google management had any idea how lucrative the company's ad business was), Google was able to expand dramatically and take on other transformative projects: more efficient data centers, open-source cell phones, free Internet video (YouTube), cloud computing, digitizing books, and much more. The key to Google's success in all these businesses, Levy reveals, is its engineering mind-set and adoption of such Internet values as speed, openness, experimentation, and risk taking. After its unapologetically elitist approach to hiring, Google pampers its engineers—free food and dry cleaning, on-site doctors and masseuses—and gives them all the resources they need to succeed. Even today, with a workforce of more than 23,000, Larry Page signs off on every hire. But has Google lost its innovative edge? It stumbled badly in China—Levy discloses what went wrong and how Brin disagreed with his peers on the China strategy—and now with its newest initiative, social networking, Google is chasing a successful competitor for the first time. Some employees are leaving the company for smaller, nimbler start-ups. Can the company that famously decided not to be evil still compete? No other book has ever turned Google inside out as Levy does with In the Plex.
In The Plex - How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Steven Levy
Simon & Schuster
2011
432 páginas
14h 24m
ISBN-10: 1416596585
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Steven Levy
Steven Levy é um jornalista americano que escreveu muitos livros sobre computadores, tecnologia, criptografia, internet, cyber-segurança e privacidade. Steven Levy é o editor geral da Wired. O Washington Post o chamou de “o principal jornalista de tecnologia da América”. Seus cargos anteriores incluem fundador do Backchannel e redator-chefe de tecnologia e editor sênior da Newsweek. Levy escreveu sete livros anteriores e seu trabalho apareceu na Rolling Stone, Harper's Magazine, Macworld, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The New Yorker e Premiere. Levy também ganhou vários prêmios durante seus mais de trinta anos escrevendo sobre tecnologia, inclusive por seu livro Hackers, que a PC Magazine classificou como o melhor livro de sci-tech escrito nos últimos vinte anos; e para a Crypto, que ganhou o grande prêmio de e-book na Feira do Livro de Frankfurt de 2001.
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