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Dave Lieb predicts AI will eventually write any type of code
“I think it will get good enough to write any code.”
Lieb Secretly Designed Google Photos Despite Orders to Build Google+
“I kind of just didn't do what my bosses asked me to do. And it created a ton of conflict. I was definitely not the model employee. I just kind of did it on the back burner. I would go every day and do my day job, and then in the afternoon, I'd go spend some ti…”
Lieb: Google Photos operates at a 90-plus percent gross margin
“And it turns out it's like a 90 plus percent margin.”
Dave Lieb says up to half of YC startups primarily use AI
“I would say maybe like a third to a half of the companies would say that they pretty much primarily write code in this style.”
Lieb Was Fired Twice From His Team While Pitching Google Photos
“In fact, twice I was a I got fired from the team and told to go find a new role at Google.”
Lieb: Musk said Twitter should make far-left and far-right equally unhappy
“I think Elon explicitly said, when you're using Twitter, you should feel equally bad if you're on the far left or on the far right.”
Lieb: I was asked to leave my Google team twice
“I didn't get fired from Google. I did get asked to leave the team twice.”
Dave Lieb says AI adoption in legal and finance will become default
“And I think we're now getting to the point in legal, in finance, and all these other areas where it's become a competitive disadvantage if you don't embrace it. So I think it will become default.”
Google Reassigned the Acquired Bump Team to Google+ on Day One
“Then we showed up. To Google on the first day and there had been a reorg and all of the plans that we had agreed upon with our sponsor were out the window and we were tasked to go work on Google plus the social network.”
Google Photos Reached One Billion Users in Under Four Years
“Google Photos grew to more than a billion users in less than four years, which I think is the fastest growing product of all time, at least at the time.”
Bump Was the #2 App on the App Store by Demo Day
“Throughout the batch, the product kept growing, and by the time demo day came around in August, we were actually the number two app on the entire app store.”
Steve Jobs Featured Bump's Icon in an Apple Keynote Presentation
“Steve Jobs put our icon on a slide on one of his pitch decks.”
Google Photos Was Built From Scratch in About Nine Months
“Once we got the green light you know, it was a team of, like, 20 of us from Bump latched on to maybe a team of, like, a hundred people, core people from Google with access to all of this incredible technology, and we were able to build all of Google Photos bas…”
Lieb: Google Photos team was originally spun out of Google+
“There were a bunch of people that were on the existing, we kind of spun the team out of the Google Plus team, and there were a bunch of folks who signed up to build social, right? They were very excited about social, and that's awesome, but we were very clear,…”
Early DARPA Grand Challenge Work Spawned Modern Autonomous Vehicles
“Ended up working on what would be the beginning of the DARPA Grand Challenge, which would turn into the self-driving cars that we have today.”
Lieb Conceived Bump During an Accounting Class at Chicago Booth
“The idea that you could
Share contact information by taking two phones and bumping them together popped into my head in an accounting class one day.”
Bump Launched on the App Store in 2009 With Zero Promotion
“The app went live at the end of March, 2009, and we did no promotion. It just went on the App Store, and some people found it.”
Bump Received Just $16,667 in Initial Y Combinator Funding
“We got 16,667 dollars of funding, which in hindsight is pretty small, but it was totally sufficient to come out to the Bay Area, live on a friend's floor, and build Bump some more.”