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19 Dec 2019 Acquired Convoy (with CEO Dan Lewis)

“I won't say the person's name but I remember they're like, “We just have a love-hate relationship with our remote offices.”

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commitment
Recorded
19 Dec 2019
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Acquired

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…How long did you stay at Google? The team (Adria) moved down to Mountain View. Did you stay in Seattle and is that how you ended up at Amazon? That's right. The company was acquired in 2010–2011, if I remember correctly, and ultimately, the entire team moved down to the Bay Area to join the Machine Intelligence Group. I learned an incredible amount at Wavii. I decided then to move to the Bay Area. I was working remotely for Google for a while. I was looking at several options in Seattle to join some of the teams here and I just decided I wanted to be part of a remote office at that time. Google's actually scaled pretty significantly since then, but I remember going down to the Bay Area once to meet some of the leadership of the team that I may have been joined. There were two or three options in Seattle and I distinctly remember sitting down with them. I won't say the person's name but I remember they're like, “We just have a love-hate relationship with our remote offices. ” I was like, “Oh.” What's the hate part?…

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