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Firechat with Waymo

A fireside with Thomas Malec, Waymo's Head of Product and Growth Marketing, on building and scaling autonomous driving and what it means for MBAs eyeing applied AI.

Firechat · AI · Autonomy

What went down

We sat down with Thomas Malec, Head of Product and Growth Marketing at Waymo, for a candid fireside on building and scaling autonomous driving. Thomas walked through how you grow a product people have to learn to trust, drew on his early-stage scaling days at DoorDash, and took a lot of thoughtful questions from the room. For anyone eyeing the frontier of applied AI, it was a rare look at what it actually takes to ship something this high-stakes.

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