The Friendship That Made Google $1.8 Trillion

Try Recraft today: go.recraft.ai/kapur // In March 2000, Google faced a crisis that nearly ended the company before it truly began. At the center of this story are two engineers you've probably never heard of: Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat. They weren't executives or managers—they were individual contributors, quietly writing code behind the scenes. Together, their friendship and incredible coding skills didn't just save Google from disaster—they transformed it into the internet powerhouse we know today.

This is the untold story of how two friends built the technology that powers billions of searches, YouTube videos, emails, and AI queries every day—and how their partnership changed Google, and the internet, forever.

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:15 - Tech Unmasked
1:32 - Chapter 1: The Day Google Almost Broke
5:57- Chapter 2: The Partnership That Built Google
7:15 - Recraft Shoutout (ad)
8:08 - Chapter 3: How Google Learned To Scale
10:01 - Chapter 4: The Quiet Architects of Google
11:29 - Chapter 5: The Friendship Behind Google

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Resources:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18588697
github.com/ghemawat/stream
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16744353
x.com/JeffDean/status/1699203337923555776
www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.newyo…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Dean
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay_Ghemawat
research.google/people/sanjayghemawat/?&type=googl…
research.google/people/jeff/?&type=google
   • Video  
   • Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer – 25 years at Goo...  
Transcript: www.dwarkesh.com/p/jeff-dean-and-noam-shazeer
   • Decoding Google Gemini with Jeff Dean  
cse.umn.edu/college/feature-stories/jeff-dean-goog…
www.quora.com/How-did-Google-s-top-coders-Jeff-Dea…
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16744764
www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.wired…
horkan.com/2024/08/20/mapreduce-a-20-year-retrospe…
www.facesofopensource.com/jeff-dean/
www.informatika.bg/jeffdean
www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/45g4he/g…
static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google…
usesthis.com/interviews/jeff.dean/
x.com/JeffDean/status/1792501550046175356
static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google…
youtube.com/results?search_query=jeff+dean

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