Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: Demo is only 1% of the work

At Startup School 2026, Y Combinator interviewed Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov. He said the first fully autonomous demo took 18 months but the product took 15 years; the Waymo Driver now runs 500,000 trips per week and over 4 million fully autonomous miles across 15 cities.

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