Name: International Women’s Day Celebration - Keynote (IWD2019)
Uploaded: 2020-03-03T18:51:33.000Z
Duration: 39 min 32 s
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LINNE HA: Hi, thank you for having me here.

And I am a director of research programs at Google AI.

where I talked about how much being in this position

and reaching this position was really about not me

but everybody behind me, meaning all the people who helped

And afterwards, I thought about this for a little bit.

I noticed that people were asking me questions

And after so many of those questions, I started to think,

and I really kind of reacted defensively, in the sense that,

are they questioning that it's a fluke that I have this job?

Because they weren't asking all the other panelists with me.

And then I realized, actually, what that was really

an opportunity to tell my story about how I arrived here.

Because that journey is actually quite interesting.

But how I arrived at Google is also another very interesting

plan on working for Google, or working in AI,

I actually planned my life, since I was 9 years old,

towards becoming a writer, because I knew without a doubt.

I was the kid who went to the library, back

and books were very popular, taking out stacks of books.

And because I grew up in Guam and then in Alaska--

were really important to transport you to new places.

So what I did as an undergrad is I studied as many things

And then the ironic part of that is that when I graduated,

at an investment bank, or the CIA, or going into publishing.

And I really wanted to go into publishing.

But they were going to require me to work 50 hours a week,

And so basically, I was too scared to go to the CIA.

And what my plan was, living in New York--

I came to New York, and it was very magical to be here.

My plan was to work as much as I could, which was usually

about a year, year and a half, save up money, take off, go

And then one day, the job that I was offered was at Google.

And actually, I had a pretty decent job before that.

because I found it very expensive to live in New York.

And back then, San Francisco was very cheap.

I was already at a job, and the recruiter

found my CV on Monster, or Indeed, or one

And they offered to bring me down to the Mountain View

campus, the headquarters, which is about 40 minutes away

from San Francisco, and to interview, and give me

And I was thinking, oh, how else would I possibly

get a tour to Google unless I went through this whole thing?

fine whether the interview failed or not.

But I actually ended up meeting some of the most

And I didn't really want to commute down to Mountain View.

Then one day, my manager started questioning

And back then, it was actually not as big of a deal

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