Sundar Pichai
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
such a dynamic time in around 2004, 2005 with Ajax, the web suddenly becoming dynamic.
In a matter of few months, Flickr, Gmail, Google Maps, all kind of came into existence, right?
Like the fact that you have an interactive dynamic web, the web was evolving from simple text pages, simple HTML to rich dynamic applications.
But at the same time, you could see the browser was never meant for that world, right?
But at the same time, you could see the browser was never meant for that world, right? Like JavaScript execution was super slow. The browser was far away from being an operating system for that rich modern web, which is coming into place. So that's the opportunity we saw. It's an amazing early team. I still remember the day we got a shell on WebKit running and how fast it was.
But at the same time, you could see the browser was never meant for that world, right? Like JavaScript execution was super slow. The browser was far away from being an operating system for that rich modern web, which is coming into place. So that's the opportunity we saw. It's an amazing early team. I still remember the day we got a shell on WebKit running and how fast it was.
But at the same time, you could see the browser was never meant for that world, right? Like JavaScript execution was super slow. The browser was far away from being an operating system for that rich modern web, which is coming into place. So that's the opportunity we saw. It's an amazing early team. I still remember the day we got a shell on WebKit running and how fast it was.
Like JavaScript execution was super slow.
The browser was far away from being an operating system for that rich modern web, which was coming into place.
So that's the opportunity we saw.
It's an amazing early team.
I still remember the day we got a shell on WebKit running and how fast it was.
We had a clear vision for building a browser
We had a clear vision for building a browser Like we wanted to bring core OS principles into the browser, right? Like, so we built a secure browser sandbox, each tab was its own. These things are common now, but at the time, like it was pretty unique. We found an amazing team in Aarhus, Denmark with a leader
We had a clear vision for building a browser Like we wanted to bring core OS principles into the browser, right? Like, so we built a secure browser sandbox, each tab was its own. These things are common now, but at the time, like it was pretty unique. We found an amazing team in Aarhus, Denmark with a leader
We had a clear vision for building a browser Like we wanted to bring core OS principles into the browser, right? Like, so we built a secure browser sandbox, each tab was its own. These things are common now, but at the time, like it was pretty unique. We found an amazing team in Aarhus, Denmark with a leader
Like we wanted to bring core OS principles into the browser, right?
Like, so we built a secure browser sandbox.
Each tab was its own.
These things are common now, but at the time, like it was pretty unique.