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7 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2000s
Kevin Scott said Google put many of its compiler specialists on his interview panel, and he joined the new Google New York office as about the tenth person.
“they took what must have been every compiler person in the company at the time and put them on my interview panel.”
2023
Kevin Scott said he had been at Microsoft for almost six and a half years at the time of the recording.
“I've been at Microsoft a little over 6 years now, so almost six and a half years.”
2023
Kevin Scott said his daughter wants to become a surgeon, which he considers a good job given limited progress in robotics.
“my my daughter, for instance, like, has decided she wants to go be a surgeon.”
2023
Kevin Scott said he and Sam Altman have discussed their suspicion that the next trillion-dollar company would be founded in 2023.
“I suspect that this year, like the next 1 trillion dollar company, gets founded.”
Undated
Kevin Scott said that at one point he took control of Microsoft's entire GPU budgets to focus them on evidence-backed paths.
“at one point, I seized the entire GPU budgets for the whole company.”
Undated
Kevin Scott attended a Virginia Governor's school for science and technology, where his computer science teacher was Dr. Tom Morgan.
“I went to a science and technology high school.”
Undated
Kevin Scott said his team at Google won a Google Founders Award for solving an unglamorous problem using advanced computer science.
“the whole team won a Google Founders Award, which was a big deal”
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