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the way we use search has changed it's no longer consumers going to Google
I was the first product manager at Google and to be the first PM launching Google and international languages
Larry was very much an original he was a crazy thinker he had a very simple philosophy which was I'm gonna ask you to do insane things and they are insane by default because if they're not insane you're gonna basically revert to status quo and you're gonna come up with incremental ideas
I think it was probably the most formative experience
I respected them for being computer geniuses
it was clear to me that it was an insane company it was the biggest risk and it was probably the smartest people I've ever met in my life so all I could think was whatever it takes I want to be in this team I want to work with these people because I'm going to learn a lot
each YC batch had 12 companies which was like the beautiful like days and now it's like 100 150 companies and I don't think there's like a valuation less than 10 million ... the proverbial needle in the haystack that probably ratio has gotten hundred times worse