Google cofounder Sergey Brin: Staying retired "would’ve been a big mistake"

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Google cofounder Sergey Brin told Stanford students that he was "spiraling" before returning to work on Gemini—and staying retired "would’ve been a big mistake."

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00:00I actually retired like a month before COVID hit and it was like the worst decision. I had this

00:06vision that I was gonna sit in cafes and study physics which was my passion at the time and

00:12yeah that didn't work because there were no more cafes. I was just kind of stewing and kind of felt

00:19myself spiraling kind of not being sharp and then I was like I gotta get back to the office which

00:27time was closed but you know after a number of months we started to have some folks going to

00:32the office and I started to do that occasionally and then started spending more and more time on

00:38what later became called Gemini which is super exciting and to be able to have that technical

00:44creative outlet I think that's very rewarding as opposed to if I'd like stayed retired I think

00:51that would have been a big mistake.

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