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Rajeev Motwani's theoretical research led to Google's PageRank and AnchorText algorithms
“I think Rajiv's work in fundamental computer science, in theoretical computer science, has led to many algorithms, actually. One of which turned out to be PageRank and AnchorText, and those two algorithms powered the search that ultimately became Google.”
Sasi: Indian researchers rank in top ten on Google and Meta bounties
“In fact, if you look at Facebook or Google's bug bounty is where companies pay security folks money to find a security incident. So they, Google typically pays 10,000 dollars, which is what, seven lakh for a good security bug. Now, in the top three list of eac…”
Adam: Google invested $7 million in Fynd's $10 million funding round
“So Google, I think the round was 10, was total ten million dollars in which Google contributed seven million dollars. And the remaining came a mix of between ProRata and some other family offices also joining the round.”
Rajiv Motwani received founder shares in Google rather than seed equity
“Rajiv was not a seed investor. He was a founding stakeholder. So they gave him shares, you know, as a founder.”
Krishna: Google invested $100M with Social Finance for career impact bonds
“Recently Google put a hundred million dollars into a fund along with Social Finance to set up Career impact bonds, which will allow people to go and acquire some Google certification for free, but have to repay only if they earn more than say, 40,000 dollars a…”
Ghosh: US tech firms began shifting core product work to India between 2006-2014
“During my time at Yahoo and LinkedIn, I had fairly large teams sitting in Bangalore and a few, few in Hyderabad. And this was my, the team's reporting that was during 2006 to 2014. And at that time, Google was coming in in a big way. Facebook came a bit later.…”