Artículo sobre los orígenes de Google, antes de que Google fuese Google.
It began with an argument. When he first met Larry Page in the summer of 1995, Sergey Brin was a second-year grad student in the computer science department at Stanford University. Gregarious by nature, Brin had volunteered as a guide of sorts for potential first-years – students who had been admitted, but were still deciding whether to attend. His duties included showing recruits the campus and leading a tour of nearby San Francisco. Page, an engineering major from the University of Michigan, ended up in Brin’s group.
It was hardly love at first sight. Walking up and down the city’s hills that day, the two clashed incessantly, debating, among other things, the value of various approaches to urban planning. «Sergey is pretty social; he likes meeting people,» Page recalls, contrasting that quality with his own reticence. «I thought he was pretty obnoxious. He had really strong opinions about things, and I guess I did, too.»
«We both found each other obnoxious,» Brin counters when I tell him of Page’s response. «But we say it a little bit jokingly. Obviously we spent a lot of time talking to each other, so there was something there. We had a kind of bantering thing going.» Page and Brin may have clashed, but they were clearly drawn together – two swords sharpening one another.
Es parte de libro The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture de John Battelle.
(vía Techdirt)
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