Larry Page

“What caused Larry Page to step aside? It was actually having to go, the prospect of going before the DOJ, right?”

“When you pitched a 20% project, you had to pitch it to Larry, Sergey, and Eric. You had to go to, like, the exact meeting. Pitch the project and explain to them how you were going to also keep up your normal day job while doing the project.”

“I mean, Waymo was so expensive that Larry Page could not convince anyone at Google to let them keep it fully on their books. So they had to create Alphabet so they could get outside investors in Waymo.”

“Elon and Larry were quite close for some time and have had a tremendous falling out.”

“Chris Anderson is working with him on the project.”

“Larry's new company called Dynatomics, which is a very research focused effort to use AI to build flying cars as a first case for how you can go from models to manufacturing.”

“Anyway, this is why we saw Peter Thiel, Larry Page, David Sachs open Austin offices in the last 10 days or thereabouts.”

“Larry like is basically pulling all the strings he wants to pull and that's just fine for him. Like they, I actually think he's way more involved than people realize.”