Tears, explosion of sad emojis: Jeff Dean shares last few hours at Google
Google's former chief scientist Jeff Dean shared an hour-by-hour timeline of his last two days at Google at the KDD 2026 conference in Jeju. It covers an emotional video call breaking the news to 139 close colleagues, a farewell party 1,500 people crashed, a 2:30 AM scramble to answer 400 disappearing chat messages, and one minute of unemployment before he became Discovery Loop co-founder at…
Jeff Dean, Google's former chief scientist, spent his final hours at the company answering 400 goodbye messages before his account expired. At the KDD Conference in Jeju, South Korea, he shared an hour-by-hour timeline of his last two days, ending with a slide declaring himself unemployed at exactly midnight. The following day, he co-founded Discovery Loop, a startup backed by Alphabet, Radical Ventures, and Khosla Ventures, with the goal of automating AI experimental loops.
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