Later, during Case's off-the-record talk, Google's Brin--soon likely to face his own high-stakes business encounters--sat intensely on the edge of his seat, intently listening to Case and his experience.

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Barraud captured Nipper, listening intently to an Edison phonograph, in his 1898 painting His master's Voice.

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