Jeff Dean recounts emotional final days at Google before co-founding Discovery Loop
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·47 viewsGoogle's former chief scientist Jeff Dean publicly shared a detailed hour-by-hour account of his last two days at the company at the KDD 2026 conference in Jeju. He described an emotional video call in which he broke the news of his departure to 139 close colleagues. A farewell party drew an unexpected crowd of 1,500 people, while Dean also stayed up until 2:30 AM responding to around 400 disappearing chat messages. His time away from employment lasted just one minute before he officially became co-founder of Discovery Loop at midnight.
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