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Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 22:12 David Rosenthal And as Jeff knows very well, because he and Sanjay basically built it with Erz Holze, Google's infrastructure is extremely parallelizable.
- ▶ 1:45:09 Ben Gilbert There's a great quote where Jeff goes to Erz Holtzel and goes, we need another Google.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:18:20 Ben Gilbert So then 20 10, Erz Holze, very senior, Google, at this point probably distinguished engineer, senior vice president.
- ▶ 3:30:13 David Rosenthal We're gonna save this for the next episode, but I was like, yeah, especially think about where the impetus for this came from, from Erz, from this memo, the Erzquake memo, as it's known.
- ▶ 3:30:24 David Rosenthal Erz should have been focused on cloud.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 59:50 David Rosenthal So pretty quickly they get Urs Holze and then Jeff Dean, who are just these absolute legends.
- ▶ 59:57 David Rosenthal Urs is now a fellow, but he ran all of Google's infrastructure from 1999 until 2023.
- ▶ 1:00:30 David Rosenthal So that's Urs.
- ▶ 1:04:54 David Rosenthal Well, Erz comes in and he's like, whoa, we can just keep going with this.
- ▶ 1:28:23 David Rosenthal So the very first project that Jeff Dean did when he came over from DEC is Larry and Sergey and Erz told him, all right, the VCs say we got to sell ads.