Why “The Billion Dollar Code” is Evil

John McCrea
6 min readOct 24, 2021

Did you watch “The Billion Dollar Code,” the Netflix documentary that purports to tell the true story behind the creation of Google Earth? If so, were you glad to learn about the scrappy, visionary little team in Berlin, far from Silicon Valley, who were portrayed as the true inventors of the software? And did you cheer them on in their uphill battle against the “evil” giant corporation, Google?

If so, sorry, but you were duped.

“The Billion Dollar Code,” is actually one of the most dishonest and cynical films ever foisted upon the public…

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