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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
6 Oct 2025 Acquired Google Part III: The AI Company
“Alex and Ilya go to Geoff and say, I really think you should have a bigger percent. I think you should have 40% and we should each have 30%.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
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- belief
- Recorded
- 6 Oct 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Google Part III: The AI Company
Transcript context
…Wow. I knew it was about $40 million. I did not know that old story. It’s almost like Google itself, the Dutch auction IPO process. How fitting. That’s a perfect DNA. The three of them were supposed to split it 33% each. Alex and Ilya go to Geoff and say, I really think you should have a bigger percent. I think you should have 40% and we should each have 30%. That’s how it ends up breaking down. Wow. What a team. Well that leads to the three of them joining Google Brain directly and turbocharging everything going on there. Spoiler alert, a couple of years later, Astro Teller who would take over running Google X after Sebastian Thrun left, would get quoted in the New York Times in a profile of Google X, that the gains to Google’s core businesses and search and ads and YouTube from Google Brain have way more than funded all of the other bets that they have made within Google X and throughout the company over the years.…
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