Sebastian Mallaby
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3 Apr
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Am I allowed to do that?
Please.
So I'd say that, you know, Sergey Brin is the troublemaker here.
that he, at one of the Google IOs, I guess it was a couple of years ago, the stage was set up for two people to be on it.
There was the interviewer and there was Demis.
And suddenly, Sergei kind of runs onto the stage.
They have to get a third chair.
And then he kind of
inserts himself into that conversation.
What I hear is that that was the outward symptom of a much deeper tension, where Sergei doesn't really like Demis's leadership on this and wants to push back against it.
And I think it follows from that that the single most important business buddy act in all of capitalism today is the one between Sundar Pichai and Demis Hassabis.
Because Sundar
manages the board, manages the sort of high politics of Google and Alphabet, that Demis has the space, the resources, the oxygen to go do his science.
And without Sundar holding that all together, we might be in a different place.
Yeah, I mean, Demis described this to me as, you know, you mature.
You get to know the real world and all that.
One might say, how come you weren't mature when you sold the company in the first place?
I mean, surely it was predictable.
But I think that the real truth of the matter is he did not predict.
I mean, it comes back to this...
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