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Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:51:31 Ben Gilbert Bill Gross started the company out of his startup incubator, Idealab, and he did it with quite a bit of flair, coming to the world from the TED conference in February of 1998.
- ▶ 1:53:47 Ben Gilbert So the net of all this on the Ted stage, Bill gets wildly criticized for this.
- ▶ 1:53:51 Ben Gilbert Some people even booed the idea when he was on stage at Ted, but crazily Bill's idea was basically right.
- ▶ 1:57:49 David Rosenthal The TED conference.
- ▶ 1:58:12 David Rosenthal But the internet was still enough of sort of a utopian, uh, community, like small enough and sort of an outgrowth of academia that, I mean, people booed Bill Gross and, go to on stage at TED in 1998.