Jeff Dean's Discovery Loop pitch deck lists Google Search, Gmail, and TPUs as founder achievements. Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures co-lead the round.
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Jeff Dean posted his pitch deck on X Wednesday. The slides for his new AI startup, Discovery Loop, list products the founding team helped build: Google Search, Ads, Gmail, Gemini, and TPUs. Dean, who spent 27 years at Google, is leaving as part of a wider AI leadership reshuffle at Alphabet.
The startup is pursuing scientific breakthroughs with AI in fields including computer hardware and drug discovery. Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures are co-leading the initial funding round, Dean said. Alphabet and other investors are also participating.
Dean is founding Discovery Loop with three other departing Google heavyweights: Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals. The team's academic credentials are on display in the deck. Google Scholar rankings place Dean, Le, and Vinyals among the most highly cited AI researchers in the world.
Another slide lists people the founders worked with who went on to lead AI companies. That list includes Anthropic cofounder Dario Amodei, OpenAI and Safe Superintelligence cofounder Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI cofounder Wojciech Zaremba, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, and Mistral cofounder Arthur Mensch.
"Will go down in history as one of the most stacked pitch decks ever made," Bilawal Sidhu, a former Google product leader, wrote on X.
Shubham Sharma, a technical lead at YouTube, replied: "VCs don't select Jeff Dean. Jeff Dean selects VC."
James Rizkallah, a product data science manager at Ramp, wrote: "Your deck should have just had one slide that said google me."
Delali Azumah, cofounder of Delalify, posted: "4 legends in one room. Who would not want to join them."
Dean said he had shared the deck with "a handful of VC firms." Google staff reacted on internal message boards with fond memes, Business Insider reported.
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