Google Photos
part of Google includes Google Photos Team
5 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 31, 2017 by Brian Ascher · said 41 times in 8 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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2023 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
- Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20Product: When to Hire a CPO, The Three Different Types of CPO, How To Know What You Need, How To Structure the Hiring Process, What Are the Must-Ask Questions, What Tests and Case Studies Should Be Used, How Should Their Compensation Package Be Structur
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2022 30 mentions in 3 episodes 10 per episode
- David Lieb: How I Founded Google Photos & Bump; Why I Left Google | 20VC #927 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Marty Cagan: Product Lessons from Steve Jobs and Elon Musk; Why do we idolize engineers? | 20VC #957 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2017 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: How Both Founders & GPs Should Construct Their Pitch, Why VCs Are Eternal Optimists & What Makes The Best Post-Investment VC/Founder Relationship with Brian Ascher, Partner @ Venrock
- 20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
Everything said about Google Photos, oldest first
May 31, 2017 bullish
Sep 21, 2022
Lieb: Google Photos intentionally rejected social features and photo editing
“And we said internally at Google, like, we're not going to build a social tool. This isn't a social network. Like, that's not what we're doing. We're not going to build some crazy, like, photo editing product. Like, it's not about being, quote, creative with y…”
Sep 21, 2022
Lieb: Prior domain experience is anti-correlated with top product performance
“In my experience, most of the really strong PMs that have emerged, say on the Google Photos team came from backgrounds with no experience in this domain really at all. Like you talked to some of them. In fact, I would say, I would probably go so far as to say …”
Sep 21, 2022
Lieb: Google Photos team was originally spun out of Google+
“There were a bunch of people that were on the existing, we kind of spun the team out of the Google Plus team, and there were a bunch of folks who signed up to build social, right? They were very excited about social, and that's awesome, but we were very clear,…”
Nov 22, 2023 positive
Seibert: Google Photos is one of the most strategic products ever launched
“So Google Photos, Potentially one of the most strategic products ever launched, because it allowed Google to collect the world's largest library of photos ever assembled. And that's how they were able to train their early vision models and so on.”