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Ben Gilbert: belief

30 Jun 2025 Acquired Google Part I: Origins of Search

“Everyone there was ludicrously high IQ from the very beginning. But I think that collaborative utopian thing went along with the IQ.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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belief
Recorded
30 Jun 2025
Publisher
Acquired

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…But who are really high horsepower. Everyone there was ludicrously high IQ from the very beginning. But I think that collaborative utopian thing went along with the IQ. The phrase that I heard a lot in the research from talking to folks who are early Google was a healthy disregard for the impossible. It was the modus operandi there.…

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