Mukund Jha
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And I went to Spain.
And then I had a lot of interest in doing research.
So Madhav actually went to Penn State for his PhD.
And I also went to Columbia to do my PhD.
In New York.
In New York.
And when we went, it was 2009.
In 2008 there was a financial crisis.
I was not very, like, reading news and other things.
I didn't understand the gravity of a financial depression then.
What happens.
And when I reached New York, I was talking to seniors for the first time.
And no one got a job.
And everyone was worried about not getting a job.
But luckily, I got into Google in an internship.
And then what I wanted to do in my PhD, I found out that Google has already done it 2-3 years ago.
And then I thought, what's the point of doing research again, when we know that there is no output for it.
Then I joined Google.
I liked Google a lot.
They were very good people.