Tomorrow will be my last day at Google after 27 years, and watching it grow from 25 people to 190,000+ has been an amazing journey. Below is a note I shared with many people internally at Google today. An excerpt is:
It has been an absolute pleasure to work with you and to help build some of the most widely used and impactful products of all time. As a kid, I dreamed of helping build software that would be used by many people, and Google now has thirteen products used by more than a billion people (amazing!). Our work has had a tremendous impact in the world, and I have been lucky enough to collaborate and form friendships with many colleagues that I deeply admire, respect, and enjoy. It still brings me joy every time I see people out in the world using our products to find information, handle email, translate documents, watch videos, learn new things, navigate and understand the physical world, browse the web, use their phone, run large-scale computations on our infrastructure, ride in an autonomous vehicle, or perform complex tasks with the help of our AI systems. I hope you all share this sense of joy, because it is a shared accomplishment! Thank you to all of my colleagues at Google over many years!
Now I'm excited to go start @DiscoLoopAI with my longtime friends and colleagues @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML, and @quocleix.
(Updated post: slightly redacted to not have some personal info)
if you’ve ever spent time around google, you know this slide design has carried some of the most legendary work in the company’s history.
i remember reading decks in this exact format that now feel like historical documents for all of humanity.
now imagine being a vc in the room when this slide goes up. it should likely make any venture capitalist feel tiny & insignificant. these are ppl who helped invent, scale, or materially advance modern computing / internet in ways ppl could only dream of. i mean just one of these would be a huge accomplishment for most ppl.
finally the good news for vc’s is that jeff dean’s startup will probably have negative burn because the compute will pay him to be used.
what an absolutely remarkable run.
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I'd be lying if I said I damn near didn't cry in this finale. Ted Lasso you beauty. Finest piece of television in a long long while. 🥹
#TedLassoFinale#TedLasso
Of course that’s your contention. You’re a first-year associate on Morgan Stanley’s international desk. You just finished reading Business Insider and are convinced that the CCP has taken out a trillion dollars of debt …
Thanks for this hot take dude who doesn't know the 60 year history of databases. H/T @prempv
Mike and I have a WIP paper that analyzes all the (failed) attempts to replace SQL + relational model. This tweet has motivated me to finish it and submit it.