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Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: "Move Fast And Ship Safely"
Y Combinator Startup Podcast
Waymo’s first autonomous demo took eighteen months. The product took fifteen years. Today, the Waymo Driver runs 500,000 trips a week — four million fully autonomous miles across fifteen cities, with 17 times fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers. At Startup School 2026, Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov shares the seven lessons behind that journey, from bridging the gap between a demo and a real product to building systems that can safely operate in the physical world. Transcript: https://www.ycrootaccess.com/p/dmitri-dolgov-seven-lessons-from
View originalWaymo’s first autonomous demo took eighteen months. The product took fifteen years. Today, the Waymo Driver runs 500,000 trips a week — four million fully autonomous miles across fifteen cities, with 17 times fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers. At Startup School 2026, Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov shares the seven lessons behind that journey, from bridging the gap between a demo and a real product to building systems that can safely operate in the physical world. Transcript: https://www.ycrootaccess.com/p/dmitri-dolgov-seven-lessons-from
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- August 4, 2026
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