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- ▶ 50:04 David Rosenthal There's, like, the obvious people to talk to, like, you know, for Google, we talk to, you know, Sundar, Demis, or, like, you know, like, obvious.
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 42:09 Ben Gilbert And, listeners, just to, like, underscore how seminal this is, we actually talked with Sundar in prep for the episode, and he cited seeing the cat paper come across his desk as one of the key moments that sticks in his brain
- ▶ 2:31:55 Ben Gilbert And so despite Google, all the way back in 2017, Sundar declared we are an AI first company.
- ▶ 2:32:27 David Rosenthal To Sundar, Larry, Sergey, all of Google leadership that this is an existential threat to Google.
- ▶ 2:34:06 David Rosenthal So what happens in Google December, 20, 22, even before the Bing launch, but after the chat GPT moment, Sundar issues a code red within the company.
- ▶ 2:34:18 David Rosenthal Up until this point, Google and Sundar and Larry and everyone
- ▶ 2:35:32 David Rosenthal So this code red that Sundar issues to the company is actually a huge moment because what it means and what he says is we need to build and ship real native AI products ASAP.
- ▶ 2:40:16 David Rosenthal And here is where Sundar makes two really, really big decisions.
- ▶ 2:40:20 David Rosenthal Number one, he says, we cannot have two AI teams within Google anymore.
- ▶ 2:40:44 David Rosenthal And the way he makes it work is he says, Demis, you are now CEO of the AI division of Google, Google DeepMind.
- ▶ 2:41:34 Ben Gilbert And so reading in between the lines, it's Sundar looking at his two AI labs and going, look, I know you two don't actually get along that well, but look, I don't care that you had different charters before.
- ▶ 2:43:24 David Rosenthal Okay, so that first big decision that Sundar makes is unifying deep mind and brain.
- ▶ 2:43:33 David Rosenthal Equally big, he says, I want you guys to go make a new model, and we're just gonna have one model.
- ▶ 3:08:21 David Rosenthal So, Sundar makes these
- ▶ 3:08:58 David Rosenthal So, once Sundar makes these decisions, Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinales from Brain go over and team up with the DeepMind team, and they start working on Gemini.
- ▶ 3:53:20 David Rosenthal Is probably doing the best job of trying to thread the needle with AI right now, and that is incredibly commendable to Sundar and their leadership.
- ▶ 3:54:12 Ben Gilbert Is a hard dual mission, and Sundar and the company is handling it remarkably well, especially given where they were five years ago.
- ▶ 4:03:48 David Rosenthal Max Ross, Liz Reed, Josh Woodward, Greg Corrado, Sebastian Thrun, Anna Patterson, Brett Taylor, Clay Bevor, Demis Hassabis, Thomas Kurian, Sundar Pichai,
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:01:18 David Rosenthal Sundar Pichai.
- ▶ 2:01:20 Ben Gilbert Oh, I did not realize that that's where Sundar came from.
- ▶ 2:20:19 David Rosenthal Hell, Sundar becomes the CEO of the company.
- ▶ 3:13:35 Ben Gilbert And so at some point, Andy Rubin leaves, and Sundar actually takes over the combined teams.
- ▶ 3:13:52 Ben Gilbert And whenever you see Sundar on stage, he is
- ▶ 3:20:02 Ben Gilbert It's not clear what belongs in an Android camp versus a Chrome camp, and Sundar hasn't unified them yet.
- ▶ 3:35:55 David Rosenthal Sundar Pichai will be the CEO of Google, which will be by far the largest and really primary operating company within Alphabet
- ▶ 3:36:50 David Rosenthal Why did Sunar become CEO of Google?
- ▶ 3:36:57 David Rosenthal Sunar was a leader who had real cred going back to the early days
- ▶ 3:37:26 David Rosenthal And just also Sundar's personality
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:48:18 Ben Gilbert They come in and they take over this application's client team that includes Google toolbar.
- ▶ 2:48:25 Ben Gilbert That PM is Sundar Pichai.
- ▶ 2:48:29 Ben Gilbert And that is all we will talk about for Sundar on this episode, but obviously he will come into play much more in the future.
Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:52:21 David Rosenthal So you've got CEOs, like you mentioned, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:42:14 Ben Gilbert Tim Cook, or Sundar Prichai, certainly a very different type of CEO.
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:40 Ben Gilbert Ben has interviewed Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Rich Barton, Meredith Kopitlevian of the New York Times, Pat Gelsinger of Intel, and John Collison, and Many, many more.