Jeff Dean

“It's amazing that they attracted them because prospects were not good that all of this would work in scale, and it was only because of these guys that it did.”

“Legendary Google engineer Jeff Dean. Builds AdSense in six weeks. The whole system.”

“Jeff Dean codes it up so that dynamically, as users are searching, if there's a query that is related at all to Any book in the Amazon library catalog, Google will dynamically generate a text ad saying, go buy this book at Amazon, insert an Amazon affiliate li…”

“He also implemented the first version of AdWords, built AdSense, rewrote the core search pipeline five times, co-invented and implemented Bigtable MapReduce, TensorFlow, and Gemini.”

“And basically, if you look at any big research paper about giant Google infrastructure stuff that was launched from, I don't know, 2000 two-ish, maybe even earlier, through the twenty-teens, Jeff and Sanjay are either the two authors or two of the five authors…”

“Once they get Noam back, when they do the deal with Character AI, bring him back into the fold, Noam joins the Gemini team, and Jeff and Noam are the two co-technical leads for Gemini now”

“And Jeff's work with the team gets that average sentence translation time down from 12 hours to 100 milliseconds.”

“Google came back with a big counter, something like double the offer, and I think it was delivered from Jeff Dean personally, and Ilya said, nope, I'm doing this.”

“Jeff Dean borrows Phil and famously uses it to code up his implementation of AdSense in a week, because he's Jeff Dean.”