Peter Norvig

yeah i i certainly agree with that idea of transfer i guess the idea of uh being able to tackle a complex problem being able to move into an area that hadn't been done before and so you know academia is all about kind of an invention of the new and for industry it's a mix of

yeah i i certainly agree with that idea of transfer i guess the idea of uh being able to tackle a complex problem being able to move into an area that hadn't been done before and so you know academia is all about kind of an invention of the new and for industry it's a mix of

You want to make successful products, but sometimes in order to do that, you've got to invent something new.

You want to make successful products, but sometimes in order to do that, you've got to invent something new.

And that's harder to do because you don't know what the demand for it is going to be.

And that's harder to do because you don't know what the demand for it is going to be.

There's nothing to compare to.

There's nothing to compare to.

And yet you have to design a path to say, we're going to go ahead and build this, and we're going to put it out, and customers are going to have to get used to it because it's not going to be familiar to them.

And yet you have to design a path to say, we're going to go ahead and build this, and we're going to put it out, and customers are going to have to get used to it because it's not going to be familiar to them.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, that's right.

So it was an awesome time.

So it was an awesome time.

The company was 2001, so it's three years old, 200 people, all in one building.

The company was 2001, so it's three years old, 200 people, all in one building.

I came in and I got the honor of getting to lead the search team for a while, for about five years.

I came in and I got the honor of getting to lead the search team for a while, for about five years.

So it was a time when, you know, it's not like I invented it.

So it was a time when, you know, it's not like I invented it.