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Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (Google Labs, Gemini, AI Studio)

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Summary (from the publisher)

Listen now (62 mins) | Josh Woodward of Google Labs on where great ideas come from, knowing when to kill them, and building for a world where what’s possible changes every week

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Show notes

Josh Woodward is the head of Google Labs, the Gemini app, and AI Studio. He has spent over 17 years at Google and oversees its longest-running and largest labs team, whose products include NotebookLM (now Gemini Notebook), Project Genie, and Flow. His job is to find, experiment with, and scale new AI products, and he has built one of the most distinctive product cultures in the industry for generating ideas, running experiments, and, even more importantly, knowing when to quit.

• Gemini Personal Intelligence: https://gemini.google/overview/personal-intelligence

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• Inside OpenAI | Logan Kilpatrick (head of developer relations): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/inside-openai-logan-kilpatrick-head

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