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Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI · Y Combinator Jul 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:24 Diana Hu So, um, you built MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow, the TPU, Gemini, we could spend a whole hour on all the things you've done.

Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator May 27, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 10:04 Garry Tan You know, if you think about, um, data science, uh, historically, one of the first things that the Googlers had to figure out was a big table, right? 3 times in the scene

Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z Oct 29, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 10:18 Amin Vahdat Bigtable, Spanner, GFS, Borg, Colossus, they were hand in hand co-designed with the hardware, the cluster scale-out architecture.
  • ▶ 24:49 Amin Vahdat The motivation though for this actually was a few years ago, we had this amazing legacy system called Bigtable, and then a new amazing system called Spanner, and we decided to tell the company, hey, everyone needs to move from Bigtable to… 3 times in the scene

Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired Oct 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:25:35 Ben Gilbert And the best software tools that we have on it that we've written for ourselves, like Bigtable or Borg, how we run Google, or DistBelief, these are not services that we're making available on Google Cloud.

Weekly Recap: Gwyneth Paltrow Saves Astronomer, Figma’s IPO, Top AI Researchers Ranked Aug 2, 2025 · 1 mention

Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired Jun 30, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:00:46 David Rosenthal 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.
  • ▶ 2:58:33 David Rosenthal Big table, MapReduce, et cetera, et cetera.

The Death of Big Data and Why It’s Time To Think Small | Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck Oct 24, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:28 Jordan Tigani You know, after Google came out with, you know, MapReduce and, and GFS and Bigtable, kind of everybody's...

E165: Vision Pro: use or lose? Meta vs Snap, SaaS recovery, AI investing, rolling real estate crisis Feb 9, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:08:54 Chamath Palihapitiya So for example, whenever, like, if you were using a lot of Google services, like GFS, Bigtable, BigQuery, you know, TensorFlow, the versions that you had access to via GCP was always one or two generations behind what the Google employees…

E156: Ivy League antisemitism, macro, SaaS recovery, Gemini, Figma deal delay + big Friedberg update Dec 8, 2023 · 1 mention

A Conversation with Chris Wiggins - Author of "How Data Happened" May 31, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:19 Chris Wiggins Um, we still rely heavily on big table because a lot of big, big query, because a lot of times we want to score something and putting, put it in a table so that the analysts have fast, reliable SQL access, um, to the, to the output of…

E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump Nov 19, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:06:44 Chamath Palihapitiya You know, technical capability like GFS and Bigtable to things like TPU to things like TensorFlow, and all of that builds up all the things that DeepMind does, all the compute we have to throw against search to support that.

A Cloud SQL Database Built for Survival | Cockroach CEO & Co-Founder, Spencer Kimball Nov 17, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 4:44 Spencer Kimball They divided the customers between the MySQL instances they had, and then they had to double that, and double it again, and double it again, and that actually started to create all kinds of other problems, and so Google started to innovate… 4 times in the scene

Dynamic Range Sharding with Spanner // Daniel Chia, Google Spanner (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC) Feb 25, 2019 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 16:09 Daniel Chia I don't remember off the top of my head, but it's a logical evolution from Bigtable, which was the previous storage system of choice at Google. 4 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | From Data Warehouses to Data Lakes Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:17 Gaurav Dhillon Might have data lakes exist in Microsoft Azure, or in AWS as S three buckets, or we'll see what Google does with BigQuery, Bigtable, that that is going to give you, in a sense, a turbo mode of execution around analytics, predictive…

20VC: How Investors Can Get Into The Best Deals & Why Founders First Point Of Contact Should Be With The Investment Decision-Maker with Spencer Kimball, Founder & CEO @ Cockroach Labs Apr 14, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:07 Spencer Kimball And meanwhile, Google had a huge infrastructure team, very talented, and they built first big table, which really spawned the entire NoSQL movement that's with us today. 2 times in the scene

A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark) Dec 17, 2015 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:59 M.C. Srivas I, I did Bigtable in Google, and, uh, actually to, somebody put a slide on NoSQL, so I was saying, well, well, that's really not the history, but, 2 times in the scene

Oren Falkowitz, Area 1 Security // The Future of Cybersecurity (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) Oct 21, 2015 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:19 Oren Falkowitz Maybe, you know, eight or nine years since Google published the Bigtable paper and the MapReduce paper and some of those early big data papers which have spawned, you know, this community and all the great technological revolution, now…

Spencer Kimball, Cockroach Labs // A New Kind of Database (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) Jun 19, 2015 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 2:15 Spencer Kimball So, um, you know, around the 2000 and, um, to 2004 when Google published a paper, um, about a system called Bigtable, um, is, is sort of a parallel, um, track to sharding, uh, RDBMS databases, and this is, um, the advent of NoSQL, and… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:45 Spencer Kimball This is what, uh, Big Table used, HBase uses, and also some of Google's newer architectures like Megastore and, um, uh, Spanner. 2 times in the scene

Mike Dauber, Battery Ventures // Data Driven NYC 19 // October 2013 (interviewed by Matt Turck) Dec 5, 2013 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:52 Mike Dauber And then came 2003, 2004, and Google came out with their, you know, their big table MapReduce papers.

Fireside chat with Dwight Merriman // Data Driven #8 // Sep 2012 (interviewed by Matt Turck) Dec 5, 2013 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 39:10 Dwight Merriman They use Bigtable, and, and I think there's been things they've built on top of Bigtable over time. 2 times in the scene
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