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Bill Kilday is a technology executive and author who worked at Keyhole, the company that created the technology behind Google Earth, and later at Google. He has extensive experience in marketing and product development within the tech industry.
Known for: Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality
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Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality
Never Lost Again recounts the creation and evolution of Keyhole, the startup that developed the technology behind Google Earth. Bill Kilday, a marketing executive at Keyhole and later Google, narrates how a small team’s vision to map the world transformed into a global platform that changed navigation, business, and everyday life. The book offers an insider’s view of Silicon Valley innovation, acquisition by Google, and the cultural impact of digital mapping.
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From Startup Vision to Earth Viewer
In the early days, all we had was a vision—a belief that the Earth could be rendered digitally, down to every house, street, and terrain. Keyhole began as a small group of dreamers obsessed with spatial computation and 3D rendering. Our founding team came from both NASA and the computer gaming world...
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Surviving the Dot-Com Crash and Finding Fire Again
The early 2000s nearly killed Keyhole. When the dot-com bubble burst, investor capital vanished overnight, and our dreams looked ready to implode. I can still feel the anxiety of those meetings—calculating how long we could keep servers running, wondering which of our talented people we might have t...
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About Bill Kilday
Bill Kilday is a technology executive and author who worked at Keyhole, the company that created the technology behind Google Earth, and later at Google. He has extensive experience in marketing and product development within the tech industry.
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