Ex-Microsoft Exec Draws Parallels Between 1999 Google Skepticism and AI Boom

Former Microsoft executive Mikhail Parakhin revisited Michael Lewis's 'The New New Thing,' noting that in 1999 Google was mocked while raising at a $75M valuation, and drew eerie parallels to today's AI boom.

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