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by
Bill Kilday
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September 27 - September 29, 2018
The Earth seemed to be rotating. Moving somehow. “What’s your address again?” John asked. “It’s 465 Joe Sayers, Austin, Texas,” I said as he typed.
It was a storybook ending to 2005, a remarkable year in which somehow I found myself a part of two of the most successful product launches in history: Google Maps and Google Earth. Both had exploded in popularity, both had millions of users, and both had helped drive the price of a single Google share from $200 at the beginning of January to $436 at the end of December.
Suffice to say that if we had projected out a fifteen-year chart, we still wouldn’t have accurately predicted the revenue Pokémon GO generated that summer of 2016. It broke all download and revenue records and became the fastest-growing application of all time.
