Dialogue with the person in charge of Google Labs: Large teams are dragging down AI product innovation. We use 2-3 people and 100 days to verify a direction.

When the model rewrites the boundaries of capabilities every few months, how does the product team judge: Which ones are just amazing demos, and which ones are worth investing in and eventually become products that users can’t live without? Josh Woodward is responsible for both Google Labs and Gemini applications. His work spans two completely different scales: on the one hand, early experiments started by two or three people and trial and error, and on the other hand, AI products for global users. The exploration of NotebookLM, Flow and other products made him face the same problem repeatedly: how to continue to discover new opportunities in a large company and make them grow. In this conversation with Lenny Rachitsky, Josh shares Goog