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Eric Schmidt used Apple board seat to prepare Google for mobile
“Now, back then, and this is kind of incredible, Google CEO Eric Schmidt sat on Apple's board of directors, which is a crazy thing to think these days, and it was basically like having a crystal ball. You know, Eric knew that over multiple generations, you know…”
Wilkinson: Google Maps blew Yelp out of the water using Android
“Turns out with Google, having Android and Google Maps, they can just ask every single person on earth how the restaurant was that they went to last night, because they know that they'd visited it via Google Maps, and suddenly Google Maps has better data and bl…”
Gil: Google gave Android independent hiring autonomy post-acquisition
“Android actually had its own hiring practices, which at the time was Anthema at Google, and it was set up so that they could really run their team very independently, hire independently, make decisions independently, and that was a very explicit choice so that…”
Andy Rubin founded Android as an EIR at Redpoint's offices
“Famously, we had Andy Rubin as a IR here, and he actually founded Android out of our Menlo Park offices, and eventually helped them sell that into Google.”
Snap saw accelerated global adoption after rebuilding its Android app
“So we rebuilt it from scratch. And, you know, because of that, we saw a huge acceleration in adoption across the world.”
Snap completely rewrote its Android app from scratch in 2018
“In, in 2018, you know, we took on this project to Basically rewrite the entire Android app from scratch.”
Supercell delayed the Android launch of Clash of Clans by two years
“Supercell launched Clash of Clans very famously only two years later on Android.”
Jain: Android Grew From Under 1M Total Users To 1M Daily New Users
“We had less than a million total users on Android at the time. It was a phenomenal journey for me to kind of see Android grow from less than a million total users to about a million new users a day.”