Yeah I agree the author got a bit dismissive about the inherent complexity of solving business problems on an ongoing basis. He even links to a Wikipedia articl

Yeah I agree the author got a bit dismissive about the inherent complexity of solving business problems on an ongoing basis. He even links to a Wikipedia article about Google and offhandedly claims that the problem of indexing the whole web was solved by a couple of guys. We all know Sergey and Larry created the original Pagerank algorithm, but it's farcical to believe that their original algorithm would have stood the test of time without input from hundreds of engineers who had to deal with the rapidly evolving web and all the ensuing SEO spam, ad scams, revenge porn, illegal content, international firewalls, international regulations, scaling their infrastructure to handle billions of requests, creating an ad network to support the endeavor, etc etc. That all cannot be done by two guys in a dorm room. I'm sure Google as an org has accrued plenty of staff that are working on mild to non important tasks over the years, and I get where he's coming from, but reality is far more nuanced.