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Aravind Srinivas: Google is the only company full-stack independent of Nvidia
“The only one who's managed to do this, I would say, is Google. They built their own chips, they built their own software around it called JAX, and then they built their own accelerated linear algebra library called XLA. And then, you know, they have their own …”
Khosla: 35% of Google's code is written by AI
“Because, you know, Google's gone from zero percent AI-generated code to, I think the last claim, 35% of all code being written in Google is being written by an AI.”
Arora: Larry Page structured Google with 7 product heads, 1 business lead
“When he became CEO of Google, he said, I'm going to have 10 direct reports. There's going to be one CFO. One lawyer, and one business person, and seven product people.”
Gates: Microsoft lost the mobile OS race and Android won non-Apple phones
“We competed with Google over the mobile phone operating system, and we fell behind, and, you know, today, nobody remembers there was a Windows Mobile thing. It's just Android. For non-Apple phones, it's basically all Android.”