Google AI Studio chief Josh Woodward cold-emailed a new hire 2 days in to hear their ideas
lennysan · x · 2026-10-12
A Google AI Studio team member recommends the latest Lenny's Podcast episode with his boss Josh Woodward, who leads AI Studio, and shares a culture anecdote: just two days after joining, Woodward emailed him asking how onboarding was going, then scheduled a 20-minute 1:1 to hear his ideas about AI Studio, the app gallery and Gemini. A rare example of a senior leader proactively listening to new hires.
More from Companies & People
- Sam Altman Gets the $1.4 Trillion Question: $13B Revenue vs $1.4T in Commitments — AlexTensor · 2026-10-12
- Engineer joins NVIDIA's Groq LPU compilers team, working on multi-chip partitioning — blelbach · 2026-10-12
- Toyota's Kaizen rule: never lay off workers saved by AI efficiency gains — dotey · 2026-10-12
- Coinbase fine-tuned Qwen3.5-9B on fraud data, beating Opus 4.5 at half the latency — J0se · 2026-10-12
- Ex-Apple engineer: two years in QA taught me to never treat quality as second-class — jdluk87 · 2026-10-12
- Robert X. Cringely, legendary tech columnist and Triumph of the Nerds host, dies — Scobleizer · 2026-10-12