Senkut: Early Google dedicated three of 50 employees to three-year research bets
Aydin Senkut · How Shopify Found Product Market Fit w/ Aydin Senkut (Managing Partner at Felicis & Series A Inve... · PMF Show · Mar 8, 2024 · at 19:29
Felicis founder and early Google employee Aydin Senkut discusses how Google's founders committed significant engineering resources to forward-looking R&D before generating revenue.
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“When we had less than 50 people, they took three people away and said, look, you're going to work on crazy research stuff that we might not even need for three years. But if we basically wait, we're never going to have that.”
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