Aaron Lee
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yep, absolutely.
Excited to be here.
Happy to tell you more about Smith AI and some of the excitement in the AI development on customer engagement.
We love that.
What years were you with Google Video?
It was in 2004, very early on, I joined Google.
And back then, Google had web search, image search, but video was a new thing.
So I built a team with another engineer.
And before we know it, it's a team of like 100 people.
And that was 2004 to what year did you leave?
2008.
When I joined, Google had 2,000 employees.
When I left, it was 20,000, like 10x.
Yeah.
So I left in 2008, exactly on the month of the financial crisis and started with the other two ex-Googlers.
And we thought, wow, I mean, that's a...
good time to build company.
And that's how we started Red Beacon.
Yeah, so we spent a year heads down building the company.
And back then, you have to remember, there was no funding at all.