Dmitri Dolgov

Dimitri Dolgov is co-CEO of Waymo.

He joined Google's self-driving car project in 2009 as one of its first engineers and was repeatedly promoted until he took it over in 2021.

Waymo is Google's most successful moonshot and now provides over 500,000 fully autonomous rides each week.

Cheers, by the way.

Yeah, cheers.

What year was this that you went back to Russia?

1994.

Okay.

So that was kind of almost peak Russian optimism in a sense where it was opening up.

So I came back.

I'm struck by the founders of the two most valuable UK companies are Russian math nerds who both went to the same school, Nikolai at Revolut and Alex Gurko at XTX.

But yeah, it's a strong diaspora.

Right, a company that we're close to.

Exactly.

You know the classic engineering interview question of, you know, what happens when I type google.com and hit enter?

As you know, talk me through, you know, whatever you like, you know, HTTP and DNS and BG.

You can go down to whatever level of stack you want.

Do you want to maybe just describe when I take a ride in a Waymo today,

What's happening at a technical level?

Like what is the architecture?