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Rob Larson pulls back the curtain on the carefully crafted origin stories of the worlds largest technology companies. This sharp critique looks past the marketing of figures like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos to examine how Apple, Amazon, and Google actually achieved their dominance. Larson argues that these giants did not rise solely through merit, but through aggressive monopolistic practices …
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