What Kelsey Hightower thinks about Google

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Self-taught software engineer, formerly a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud and one of the most visible voices in the Kubernetes community; retired from full-time work in 2023 and now advises and invests.

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3 Jun 2026

Our readingThe hardest problem a company full of brilliant engineers has is not how to build something — it is what to build.

Their wordsSo you have a lot of smart Googlers. These people are brilliant. I mean extremely brilliant to the point where the hardest problem Google had in my opinion was what to build. Not how to build it, what to build.

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