The 20-year journey to fully autonomous cars with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo
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Dmitry Golgov is co CEO of Waymo. He joined Google's self driving car project in 2009 as one of its first engineers and was repeatedly promoted until he took it over in 2021. Waymo is Google's most successful moonshot and now provides over 500,000 fully autonomous rides each week. Cheers, by the
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You grew up in Russia.
Right? I grew up in Russia. Yep. Then I I was actually a Soviet Union.
Right. Right. Exactly.
My dad is a physicist. Okay. So the Soviet Union started falling apart, and then, you know, he got had a position, a visiting position in university, in Kyoto University Mhmm. For a year. We moved there as a family, and then he went to Berkeley, and I kind of tagged along. And then I ran out of, you know, I graduated from high school. Yep. I was thinking about the next thing I wanted to do, and I really liked that that that technical school in Russia. The
Russians are serious about the physics.
They are. They are. So I went back to Russia, and I got my bachelor's and master's
in What year was this that you went back to Russia?
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