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Google had the technology, the data, the talent, and the money. They just didn't have the courage to ship it. We had nothing except the courage.
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I co-founded DeepMind. We sold it to Google for $500 million. Then I watched Google bureaucracy slowly suffocate everything we built. Inflection was my escape.
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This open data has the potential to commoditize the data silos most tech companies like Google, Facebook, Uber, LinkedIn, and Amazon are built on and extract rent from.