The Google VP on Gemini and NotebookLM Reveals All

Expensive subscribers,

At the moment, I’m excited to share one among my favourite interviews ever with Josh Woodward.

Because the VP of Gemini, Google Labs (NotebookLM), and AI Studio, Josh is broadly thought-about one among Google’s most beloved leaders. In our interview, he shared how one can get essentially the most out of Gemini and NotebookLM, how he constructed a startup tradition inside Google, and the place he thinks Gemini is headed subsequent.

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Josh and I talked about:

• (00:00) How Josh’s groups introduced startup hustle to Google

• (01:19) Stay demo of Nano Banana’s high picture use instances

• (07:12) Utilizing NotebookLM to show 70 sources into speaking slides

• (12:36) A demo of Stream TV and the way the crew shipped it in 86 days

• (18:20) The #1 option to transfer quick in large corporations

• (22:02) What Josh seems for when hiring (trace: facet tasks)

• (31:32) Why we received’t be typing to AI chatbots sooner or later

• (38:44) Gemini’s imaginative and prescient as a proactive assistant that is aware of your life

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1. “We put an enormous premium on how briskly you possibly can go from concept to being in folks’s palms.” Josh’s groups have fun getting their first 10,000 customers whereas “different Google dashboards could not even depend that low.” Pace to market is what issues as that’s whenever you uncover how far off your concept is from one thing that customers need.

2. “While you’ve constructed one thing superb, you see it in folks’s eyes once they use it.” Metrics might be deceiving. As a substitute, Josh encourages his groups to go to espresso outlets and college campuses to observe actual folks use their merchandise. Seeing real delight from customers issues greater than hitting arbitrary DAU targets within the early days.