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Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business
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Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business

by David Edery, Ethan Mollick
October 2008
Beginner
240 pages
5h 2m
English
Pearson
Content preview from Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business

Chapter 7 Games and Recruiting

Quick question: What is the first ten-digit prime number contained in the mathematical constant e? We’ll give you a minute to calculate it.…

Did you get 7,427,466,391 as your answer? Don’t worry, neither did we. This question was posed back in 2004 by a mysterious and anonymous billboard in Silicon Valley, and by a sign at a subway stop in Cambridge, Massachusetts. If you figured out the answer and went to www.7427466391.com, you were presented with another puzzle. Solve that one, and you came to a page that said, “Nice work. Well done. Mazel tov. You’ve made it to Google Labs and we’re glad you’re here. One thing we learned while building Google is that it’s easier to find what you’re looking for if it comes looking ...

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