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		jimsimmons 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Steve Ballmer Interview `> if Google and Meta got the best people, what the hell did they do in the last ten years?` Invented the Transformer, Gemini, TPUs, monetized YT effectively, transitioned to mobile successfully, established GMaps as a foundation of internet etc., Google has a dozen services with > 1 billion users a month. Google in 2010 had only one

xnorswap 3 months ago [–]

10 years ago was 2015, not 2010.

So you can have transformers, but the rest all happened much longer ago than 10 years.

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