do you genuinely think that numerous meetups isn't a marketing push?

Well, you can argue that tech meetups in general are a form of marketing - but this wasn't really a 'company X hosts a react meetup trying to find people to work there' type of thing. Many drove for hours just to attend.

Getting dozens of people in the same room, excited about technology is not trivial, and having hundreds of people show up is relatively hard in a city like Vienna which doesn't have a vibrant tech scene. Sure, some people come to find job opportunities or for free food, but many 'established' meetups sometimes just have a few attendees, so this on its own is not a small task. Peter definitely didn't have time to focus on this given everything else that was going on. So for Vienna, this is pretty much as viral as it gets.

Not sure about other cities where this took place.

I mean, do you think no one at OAI and every other lab has vibe-coded some agentic demo? The problem (?) is that when you work at a corporate job you have to think about security.

google search did have a killer UI though, you might be forgetting what search looked like before google

A list of results is not a killer UI.

The technology was the killer. Technology providing the right list of results and fast.

OH and believe it or not, this continues to be the core of Google today - they suck at product design and marketing.

It was killer compared to alternatives. All other "homepages" of the internet were the cluttered mess of ads.

I feel like we are arguing semantics though. But IMO any UI that does the job that consumers want well is good UI. Just because it was simple doesn't mean it wasn't good

he was worth 14B

I am this person (not a genius or whatever) but work is absolutely life for me. I still absolutely resent the 996 culture and would never do that. I'd like to have agency when I want to abuse myself

look if you don't care about privacy, just buy a google phone

If Apple can't offer competitive APIs that maintain privacy, then I don't trust them to handle my data in the first place.

why do you think this doesn't already exist?

scale does not own the data of most of it’s large customers.

scale is no better or worse than any other labeling vendor.

I mean your employment can't technically be terminated because you are taking sick days, unless it's whatever qualifies as long term illness (18 or 28 weeks I forget).

Technically they are not obligated to continue to pay you and the govt sick pay is like 100 quid per week.

in the us they can fire you the day you don't show up