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Story: Inside Early Google - Race Conditions, Java Pain, and the Birth of AdWords

CoRecursive: Coding Stories by Adam Gordon Bell - Software Developer

Jan 2, 202637:40Technology

Ron Garret left JPL for a 100-person startup he'd just discovered on Usenet. Four a.m. alarms. Burbank to San Jose on Southwest. A rented room in Susan Wojcicki's house. He expected the search engine engineering and inst...

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Story: Inside Early Google - Race Conditions, Java Pain, and the Birth of AdWords is an episode from CoRecursive: Coding Stories by Adam Gordon Bell - Software Developer. Ron Garret left JPL for a 100-person startup he'd just discovered on...

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Published Jan 2, 2026, 37:40 long, audio available.

Story: Inside Early Google - Race Conditions, Java Pain, and the Birth of AdWords

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