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Microsoft Volume II

9888.379 - 9916.653 Bill Gates

So in 2008, Microsoft puts a deal on the table that gets bid all the way up to $47 billion to buy Yahoo. This was effectively their last Hail Mary to become relevant in search. They actually didn't launch Bing until 2009. Google was started in 1998 and went public in 2004. And Microsoft got serious about a branded search engine in 2009.

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