Jeff Dean

I mean, I know I joined.

And at that point, this was like end of 2000.

And they had this thing, everybody gets a mentor.

And so I knew nothing.

I would just ask my mentor everything.

And my mentor knew everything.

It turned out my mentor was Jeff.

And it was not the case that everyone at Google knew everything.

It was just the case that Jeff knew everything because he had basically written everything.

Usually it's a very good surprise.

You're like, wow, Project Cloud of Us.

I had no idea we were doing that.

And it turns out to be brilliant.

What was it that you did?

I actually saw Google at a job fair in 1999.

And I assumed that it was already this huge company that had no point in joining.

Because everyone I knew used Google, I guess that was because I was a grad student at Berkeley.

I guess I've dropped out of grad programs a few times.

But it turns out that actually it wasn't really that large.

So it turns out I did not apply in 1999, but just kind of sent them a resume on a whim in 2000 because I figured it was my favorite search engine and figured I should apply to multiple places for a job.