Tech Industry & Sales Concepts Flashcards
(45 cards)
What does the bet X (formerly known as Google X) do?
A team of designers, researchers and engineers who go out into the world to think about the largest problems we can solve with truely moonshot ideas.
Several ideas have graduated from X into other bets, inclduing Waymo and Wing.
What does the bet Fiber do?
Bring high speed internet to new commuities.
What does the bet Verily do?
Trying to make the world’s health data useful so that people enjoy healthier lives.
What does the bet Calico do?
Tackling aging and increasing healthspan through cutting edge technology.
What are the two investment bets that Alphabet has under its umbrella and how do they differentiate?
CapitalG - Invests in growth, helps technology companies scale with support from Google’s cast expertise and resources.
GV - Provides VC funding to companies in life science, AI, robotics, transportation, cyber security and agriculture.
What does the bet Waymo do?
Self-driving (automated) vehicles.
What does the bet Wing do?
Drone delivery of food and goods.
What does the bet DeepMind do?
Attempting to build general artificial intelligence.
What does the bet Intrinsic do?
Industrial robotics for businesses.
What does the bet Isomorphic Labs do?
Reimagining the entire drug discovery process from first principles with an AI-first approach.
What does the bet Sidewalk Labs do?
Sustainability, affordibility, mobility and economic oportunity via Smart Cities.
What did the “I’m Feeling Lucky Button” used to do?
The “I’m Feeling Lucky” button took you directly to the first website that would have been returned on the search results page.
When did Sundar Pichai join Google?
Sundar Pichai interviews at Google on the day Gmail launched, April Fools 2004. He was interviewed about the product and thought it was an April Fools joe. He joined a few weeks later.
What is Project Euphonia?
Project Euphonia expands our voice models so the assistant can understand more users, including those that have multiple sclerosis, who are deaf, who had a stroke and who stutter.
What is the most famous cafe at Mountain View and where did it get its name from?
Yoshka’s Cafe in mountain view was named after the first dog to ever visit the Google campus in 1999.
Where did Moma get its name from?
During the early days, Google named its linux servers after San Fran city landmarks. The old main intranet file was called Moma, named after San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
What was Google Nose?
An April Fools joke in 2013 allowing users to smell their search results.
What year was Google App Engine released?
2008
What year was AWS launched?
2006
What year was Microsoft Azure released?
2010
What year did the Google Cloud brand launch?
2016
How does Google Cloud organise its customers by segment?
Select - accounts represent the largest potential Google loud accounts globally.
Enterprise - Strategic account with more than $1bn revenue or more than $100m in VC funding Tier 1 markets, $500m VC funding in Tier 2 markets.
Corporate - $300m in revenue or more than $30m in Tier 1 VC markets, or more than $100m in revenue for Tier 2 VC funding.
SMB - Those that do not fit in any of the above categories.
What are the simple reasons customers would pick any of the 3 primary cloud providers?
AWS - Efficiency, quickly save money by running in the cloud and have a broad range of tools for helping you do it.
Azure - Convienience, Familiarity and running services you have used for years as managed services.
GCP - Capability, enabling Serverless, data processing, multi-cloud and AI/ML
What are some of the benefits of AWS over competitors?
1) First mover advantage in IaaS
2) Heavily integrated into vendor tech stacks, enabling vendor lock in.
3) More products than any other vendor, enabling conversations to start with customers from anywhere.
4) Huge catalog of customer references.
5) AWS has the most security and compliance certifications, making them a favourite for Public Sector.
