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- Ade used to run Codemasters Guildford and Demis’s Elixir studio
- First person after 3 founders - employee #1
- Demis’s fixer - Special Projects
- lots and lots of projects - push on this!
- He set up the Worlds team, then Simon Carter, then Kieran Connell
- Things that are top of mind: release of Gemini 2.5 Pro. COnfidence of model primacy
- Machine is cranking more models more quickly.
- Don’t really know what to do them.
- what are the products of the future?
- creating brand new things from scratch is difficult
- he’s pragmatic about product thinking / user first / creative first
- how do we solve this future product problem
- Also: games space - do we explore that.
- innovator’s dilemma
- how does core GDM and Google interact?
- very firmly part of the larger org
- committed to GDM mission and Demis
- workaholic?
- absolutely blieves in the mission.
- make the world a better place - solving intelligence is the best way
- what does that team look like?
- push on science is important
- root node problems of humanity
- Isomorphic is a separate group
- independent unit within Alphabet
- Culture change is tricky
- ivory tower research to now.
- better steady state now because Demis is firmly in charge and has influence
- legacy GDM culture is a dominant force
- senior leaders are mostly GDM legacy leaders
- share that core AI vision from original godfathers of AI
- used to be more like MSR on pace
- nicest, most competitive person you’ll meet
- core values?
- tougher place to be
- what / who am I?
- have to remind themselves about the short term AND the long term
- what to ask Ade:
- expects people to pick it up
- spot where the problem is and run with it
- how is he looking at the product market fit problem / and how does that interset with research.
- Why does he stay? What’s most important for him.
- Intersection of GDM and Google
- Culture?
- What would you ask?
- Capability overhang.