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… quintessential example we've seen here is with Gemini and Google's tools and and just their total um continued dominance in that market because of tools of distribution

… row seats for this when I worked at Google

… stole this from Ruth Porat, the CEO, the CFO of Google.

… Google is Larry and Sergei. Google, when I was there, it felt like a university.

… (00:12:23): And so in a very similar way to how Google search, like when Google search is trying to determine what is a good webpage, there's almost two aspects of it. One is you want to remove all of the...

… But what I had posted was, and this was a long time ago when restaurant websites have gotten better and it doesn't really matter because Google Local was taking over everything, but this is, let's say, 10 years ago. (01:27:00): There's…

… They were talking about how it's a generational thing that a certain generation uses Microsoft, a certain generation uses Google. Gen Z, the way they design a presentation is in Canva, but it's not just generational for those with other…

" So it tri...

… It's focused on Google and all their properties and their underlying infrastructure, how can we improve developer experience, developer productivity, velocity, all of these things we've been talking about and, because kind of the numbers…

… So the things that we did not really spoke about is the fact that over my product career I've been like a regular PM but during my time at Google I've been the delight PM. So there is even an entire product team who actually work on…

… I also just saw a stat that Google let go of so many of their middle managers of smaller teams. It's just like this flattening trend.

… They literally go into the Google AdWords interface and they're tweaking the parameters of targeting and budget and conversion tracking, et cetera, and then somebody else is actually ...

… There are big companies like Google that do that. There are startups that hire the crazy, young, wild, messy, early startup people, and that's great for them and the company too.

… (00:36:34): And then, I think right behind that, I would probably put Google because of owning the context of things like email and the distribution points of search and Chrome and Android and those types of pieces. A lot of p...

… ve testified to Congress about how models can do biological uplift in terms of making new pandemics using the models, and that's the A/B test against Google Search. That's like the previous state of the art on uplift trials.

… (00:07:59): So for a couple of years at Google, I start running these one-week programs with teams trying to go at the beginning of a project from zero to a prototype at the end that we can sort o...

" It's like pulling up directions on Google Maps. This one's a little faster, this one uses less fuel, this one avoids tolls.

… I think Google has made memory kind of obsolete. You don't have to memorize facts anymore, you can just Google it.

… That's like launching a search engine today, and then, six months later, beating Google. Then they went within five years to at a peak valuation of somewhere like $400 billion or so with 2000 employees.

I don't want to pick on any one company, but if you take Google, for example, there's a lot of interesting posts by people who left Google and they cite this as a reason why they got a little bit disgruntled, is that there's a way to get…

… You can kind of think about this as a mini Google search that's specifically built for finding the relevant parts of the code base to show one of these big models. (00:37:02): And then on the output...

There is a very long-running doc that has had to be chopped and purged, because it was breaking Google Docs in Chrome at various points in time. It's like a note-taking doc.

… And then one day in 2010, Google announced their free turn-by-turn navigation. Turns out that they were working for the last two years in building maps of the US.

" (00:26:10): Only problem with that is it's like Google saying, "Yeah. " So it just seemed insane.

… And the way she did it was there weren't very many people at Google, but she was the one who said, "No, you can't put another button on the homepage. " And over a...

" Google has no product owners as far as I know, Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, no company you've heard of that's a tech company has a product owner. They're all...