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Stein: Google Shopping has 50B products updated 2B times hourly
“There's fifty billion products in the Google shopping graph, for instance, they're updated two billion times an hour by merchants with live prices, right? You have two and fifty million places in maps.”
Taylor: Google Maps hit 90M users in one day in 2005
“In August of 22,005. We integrated satellite imagery from a recent acquisition called Keyhole, which became Google Earth, and we got ninety million people using it on the same day.”
Naming mainstream apps during PM discovery interviews is an instant failure
“One of my favorite interview questions is to ask, tell me about a product that you recently discovered that you were super passionate about. You say, I worked for Google, but it's an instant failure. You say Google Maps or Gmail or Facebook. It just tells me y…”