Google Talk

And so they needed a cloud that was designed for their AI assistant to use and also be very easy for them to understand what's happening.

So when I share an app with somebody, I should be able to quickly go see who has access to it and what access they have, very similar to, like, a Google Talk.

So how much technical knowledge does one need to have to build a personal app like this? I mean, I, I'm a complete Luddite.

Yes.

Spent a bunch of time at Microsoft building core components of their .NET developer platform and their Bing search engine.

Spent a lot of time at Google, both in the real-time communications, doing Google Talk and Google Meet, as well as their non-search ad business.

I was the chief technology officer of AOL platforms.

When we spun AOL out of Time Warner, I ran the advertising business, large, you know, sort of thousand person plus engineering team.

Ha.

Uh, which is that- Uh, it synced your Orkut with your Google Talk.

You remember Google Talk?

Oh, yes.

Oh.

Oh, yes.

Theek hai.

And then Google Talk became-

It was pre-Hangouts.

Was it like something? Was it Google Talk? I think it was Google Talk.

Oh, Google Talk.

I feel like it wasn't.

But I just remember, like, this great Google product.