{"product_id":"in-the-plex-steven-levy-9781416596592","title":"In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"The most interesting book ever written about Google\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e delivers the inside story behind the most successful and admired technology company of our time, now updated with a new Afterword.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGoogle is arguably the most important company in the world today, with such pervasive influence that its name is a verb. The company founded by two Stanford graduate students--Larry Page and Sergey Brin--has become a tech giant known the world over. Since starting with its search engine, Google has moved into mobile phones, computer operating systems, power utilities, self-driving cars, all while remaining the most powerful company in the advertising business. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGranted unprecedented access to the company, Levy disclosed that the key to Google's success in all these businesses lay in its engineering mindset and adoption of certain internet values such as speed, openness, experimentation, and risk-taking. Levy discloses details behind Google's relationship with China, including how Brin disagreed with his colleagues on the China strategy--and why its social networking initiative failed; the first time Google tried chasing a successful competitor. He examines Google's rocky relationship with government regulators, particularly in the EU, and how it has responded when employees left the company for smaller, nimbler start-ups. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Plex \u003c\/i\u003eis the \"most authoritative...and in many ways the most entertaining\" (James Gleick, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) account of Google to date and offers \"an instructive primer on how the minds behind the world's most influential internet company function\" (Richard Waters, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Levy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1416596593\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781416596592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/02\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.40d","brand":"Steven Levy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046838202623,"sku":"9781416596592","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b7c9e155-7576-4b0f-9958-da73e70fc652.jpg?v=1684986783","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-the-plex-steven-levy-9781416596592","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}