A timely example: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge/ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendsh

A timely example: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge/ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship... describes Googlers racing in 2000 to fix huge bugs in their search index, ultimately due to the crummy hardware they cheaped out on, before a crucial deal with Yahoo, almost out of runway, with existential implications: > If they failed, google.com would remain a time capsule, the Yahoo deal would likely collapse, and the company would risk burning through its funding into oblivion. PageRank was nice but couldn't save them from that.