"I sorted myself out like I found a pragmatic thing to go work on. From that point on it was all about, hey, I want to help as many engineers as I possibly can make sure that their work lines up with something that's both interesting and meaningful," he says. "It's actually a pretty undiscussed degree to which early Google had so many academics actually running important parts of the company."

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