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Suleyman: Google Bard Uses LaMDA's Search-Grounded Model Architecture
“And actually that's what you now see in Bard, you know, Google's new AI. It's pretty much exactly the same model.”
Schmidt feared AdWords auction would bankrupt Google, imposing Friday cash limits
“I was absolutely convinced that this would bankrupt the company. And I was so convinced that I ordered a cash restriction period Where the only thing that you could do was spend money on Friday mornings at 10. You had to come to my office and you had to convin…”
Maher: Google and Amazon publicly withdrew before she became CEO
“Yeah, when I stepped in, we'd already heard from some of the larger partners, such as Amazon and Google, that they weren't going to be coming. They were public about that.”
Schmidt: Google made the decision to acquire YouTube in about 10 days
“We made the decision to purchase YouTube in about 10 days, right? Incredibly historic decision because we were ready.”
Hoffman: Google product leaders can recruit unlimited engineers if they convince them
“For instance, product leaders can draw in as many engineers as they'd like on any given project, so long as they can convince engineers to join their team.”
Hoffman: AdWords revenue provided capital funding nearly all Google innovations
“In fact, it became the lifeblood, the capital that funds nearly all of Google's innovations. In essence, Cheryl and her team were building the infrastructure for global online advertising.”
Salguero: CustomMade raised from Google and First Round in 2011
“So in 2011, we went out and we raised money from Google and first round capital and a few other top shelf VCs and they bought into the marketplace concept.”
Schmidt: Shared CEO office with Google engineer until IPO
“So with the engineering story is that we stayed, we actually liked each other so much that he stayed as my office mate until we were a public company where I couldn't violate the various SEC laws.”
Mayer: Larry Page identified early Google product managers before role existed
“He was like, all these companies, they kind of look like we do, except they all have this thing called product management, which we don't really have. But what we do have is we have Salar, Susan, and Marissa. Who all tend to do things kind of all across the co…”
Hoffman: Around 500 APMs have graduated from Google's program
“In the program's first year, 2002, Marissa hired eight APMs. By 2008, she was hiring 20 a year. To date, around 500 APMs have gone through the program.”
Google India manually approved all ads before machine learning took over
“The India team used to approve all the ads that showed up on Google. And there's literally a person that had to go yes, no, yes, no, and finally we were teaching the machine to do yes, no, yes, no.”