Google

“A bunch of like the tech CEOs. I think the guys from Google Benny Hoff from Salesforce, they actually went, I think they all went together. If I understood the story correctly and actually went and visited Salomeo.”

“So I heard you don't want to move to LA, and one of the reasons is that your wife works for Google. Well, I just talked to Larry, and they're going to transfer your wife down to LA, so what are you going to do now? To solve this problem, Musk had called his fr…”

“To solve this problem, Musk had called his friend Larry Page, the co-founder of Google. The engineer sat in stunned silence for a moment, but then he replied, given all that, he would come to work at SpaceX.”

“He's actually one of the largest tech company landlords in the world. Tech companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, Spotify, Amazon, All lease property from Ortega. In fact, his commercial real estate portfolio alone is worth around twenty billion dollars.”

“We were paying 10 dollars a click for something that had a marginal cost to Google of exactly zero. And we saw that the ads were working for us. We could see at Geico how well Google advertising worked, and we just sat there sucking our thumbs.”

“People that worked at DeepMind could get into any Google office globally, but people that worked at Google were barred from DeepMind's premises.”

“In some weeks, a single research team at DeepMind Might gobble up more computational resources than Google's worldwide Gmail network, which had nine hundred million users.”

“Google bought DeepMind for six hundred and fifty million dollars. Demis netted one hundred and thirty six million dollars.”

“Not long after the Google acquisition, DeepMind was paying two hundred and sixty million dollars in staff costs annually, six times more. Then it's total spending during its first three years of existence.”