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# Gemini

2026-10-15

100 Product Managers Who Changed the World · #30: Demis Hassabis

Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, 2024 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, and product architect behind AlphaGo, AlphaFold, and Gemini. A chess master at age 13 and co-creator of the multi-million-selling game Theme Park at 16, he founded DeepMind in 2010 on a two-step roadmap — Step 1 Solve intelligence, Step 2 Use it to solve everything else. He shocked humanity with AlphaGo's Move 37 and transformed biology by folding all 200 million known proteins. Ranked #30 among the 100 PMs who changed the world, with an overall score of 90.55 (displayed as 91) — vision 97, originality 96, scale 92, taste 85, business 85, insight 82.

2026-08-10

They Organized the World's Information. Their Own Homepages Stopped in 1998 — and Still Say They're 'Currently Working on Google, a Search Engine for the Web'

On August 10, 2026, I pasted infolab.stanford.edu/~page/ and ~sergey/ into a terminal. Both returned 200. Page's is titled 'Lawrence or Larry Page's Page'; it lists him as a Ph.D. Student, office Gates 360, phone (650) 330-0100, and one line of body text: Currently working on Google, a search engine for the Web. Brin's says Currently I am at Google and In fall '98 I taught CS 349, with a paper co-authored with Page marked Work in progress. Twenty-eight years, not one edit. Meanwhile one of them is now at Google almost every day helping train Gemini, and the other crossed $300 billion in net worth on April 30 this year and went off to do AI manufacturing. This piece is about the thing product managers most reliably overestimate: how they describe a project on the day it starts.