John Collison

They were born right before the war.

And then they saw, you know, they lived through some really tough times.

And I remember talking to my mom and saying, she, you know, in fact, I got my green card here in the U.S.

before I went back.

And she insisted that I do it.

And I was actually at the time

I wasn't thinking of coming back.

But then I was pretty excited about where Russia is and the trajectory it's on.

And, you know, being young and naive, I was like, there's no turning back.

And so why did you decide to come back?

There's more of a playback way than...

studying math and computer science.

And while the undergrad and master's that I got in physics and applied math, that I think was still an incredibly strong kind of foundational school of Russian math and science, graduate school, it was very clear to me that the best way to do it was in the US.

there is a company not far from here where one of the founders also has, you know, a similar pedigree.

Let me ask you a question.

What's happening in real time?

But this is going to be only a part of the story because we're going to be talking about kind of the inference, the real time inference part of it.

And if we want to have a deeper, richer technical conversation, I think it would be interesting also to zoom out and talk about the entire ecosystem of what goes into building, evaluating and deploying the Waymo driver.

But when you're driving around or being driven around, say, you know, we think about what we're building as a driver.

Obviously, it's not a car.