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Thank you. LinkedIn Presents Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond. Jack Craftrick is our guest today.

He's the senior director of Bard at Google.

And he's coming on to give us a little bit of insight into what Bard is supposed to be for Google,

how it competes with search, and where it's going.

I wanted to bring Jack on to get a sense as to how the company is thinking about this product,

how important it is to the company, where it sees it going strategically and frankly how we should be thinking about this technology as it starts to be the subject of conversation and action almost everywhere in the tech world.

Okay, my conversation with Jack Kravjrick coming up right after this.

Hey, Jack, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me, Alex.

Great to see you again.

You know, I was looking back at when we first met, and it's starting to get to the point where I've started to know some of the folks in the tech industry for like a solid 10 years.

And we're right about there.

We met when you initially worked at Pandora, or we initially met when you worked at Pandora. Then after you left, WeWork. And I just

took a look at how long you've been at Google for like three years at this point. I mean,

man, time flies. It does. Second journey at Google. I think I'm coming up on seven cumulative

years and it's still a magical place to work.

What brought you back?

You know, when I left Google in 2011, I was on this journey of exploration of what might

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