So if you're an artisan in Southeast Asia, if you can produce high-quality fakes and sell them to dealers in Zurich , and London, and New York as the real thing, then you'll make more money in one month than you might make inyears otherwise. The problem is very longstanding.
outside of uh ibok shitz uh near uh Zurich in Switzerland sorry took me a while to speak that language again uh and it was a really eye openening opportunity and I was up there is doing some work with the Victorinox company and seeing all of their sustainability
And I tell the story of one guy who came out from Zurich 'cause he really wanted to hear from Larry about the fate of his project, whether Larry had an idea of it. And he came from Zurich and went to a TGIF and actually talked first, talked to Sergey who said, "You have to talk to Larry." And went to Larry in his office there and had a conversation about that. So, channeling those is a challenge that actually, I think, people at Google--tell me otherwise if it's not true--have a pretty good sense of how they think. Ben?
audience member #2: How about Zurich ? Pam: Zurich . Ok. I lived in Neuchatel; I was in Switzerland for a year, so it's a great place to be. So, you have an office in Zurich , is that right? Ok. So, if I were you, right? As you're thinking about right now, you're here, you're based in the US, you have a plan down the road maybe to go to Zurich . Part of the way you're gonna be thinking about
You can only be convinced if you step into them and do the same thing that we did on that rainy morning somewhere up here in Zurich . And so that was our elevator pitch.
First of all, I was telling you my own story of the loss of my dad that was a real eye-opener. I'm here in Zurich in my hotel.
So they brought, really they got realist posture. We move from Zurich to Paris so they were involved, I mean they went there in the primer school, in the case with Micael. Then I send them to Windsor in England.
This is a epidemiological study coming out of Northeastern University just published last year about 1,000 under age drinkers 13 to 19 years old. Big thing in Zurich , right?
The, the key philosophy for a lot of the things that you're gonna try, is to test often and fail fast. The first time that you try a new thing, maybe, maybe you wanna go and spend one week in the Zurich office, which I think would be much better than trying to lobby to actually get a job there and end up arriving and finding out that it's really not the best fit for you. So, you wanna look for little, tiny ways that you can be chipping away. There's, I don't know how many of you know of PBwiki? Do you guys know that company here? It was
And so that was the first conversation. So we actually met up here in Zurich , somewhere close to the zoo for those who know that running route. And we went on a run.
I created it with two colleagues because movements need tools and ways to come together and share what we know. Is that person a health technician in Zurich ?
I live in England. But I'm calling you today from Zurich , from my hotel, and five minutes away, there is the Google office. But I'm calling you here virtually.
French with her family, originally from Geneva. And so I went to Zurich without-- very limited knowledge of German. I could say "Guten tag," or things like that.
I'm explaining it. They view that about the same way that we view their Russian meddling in our election. We have a question from Zurich .
Time is short. Maybe the child will still die despite your effort. And there's also a community in Zurich here, pretty big community in Switzerland and Germany.
And after finishing my studies, we moved back to Zurich . So I actually lived here in Zurich for two years. And my time in Switzerland was really nice.
When you create a manufacturing job, I own a Ford Escape, and it was built in Louisville, Kentucky. The most recent CEO of Zurich Insurance, a Fortune 500 company, started out as an apprentice.
So he was one the classic family of physicists of around that time. But when he was a student at Zurich Polytechnic in 1904, he was ill for a while abed. And he was a balloon pilot in the Swiss army reserve.
So thank you for joining us for Zurich 's first Authors@Google event.
Pam: Excellent. Work in an internat-, anywhere in particular? audience member #2: How about Zurich ? Pam: Zurich . Ok. I lived in Neuchatel; I was in Switzerland for a year, so it's a great place to be. So, you have an office in Zurich , is that right? Ok. So, if I were you, right?
Welcome, and thank you for being with us today. Welcome to "Talks at Google" hosted out of Google Zurich . It's my pleasure-- yes, thank you.
So I think the bits and pieces fit very nicely together. You hold a master of law degree from the University of Zurich . And you received an AMP from INSEAD.
And it didn't, fortunately, because we always hired in a spirit of mindset before skill set. And the management team seems to be located in Zurich .
This is a stone house he had built himself on Lake Zurich .
And-- And so we actually met for a dinner date here at the restaurant in Zurich . And so it was the founders, Mark, Martin.
And it didn't, fortunately, because we always hired in a spirit of mindset before skill set. And the ultimate test came when we came back after COVID because here in Zurich , in many of our other 13
But the idea for Restor came from the Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich and actually came from a number of scientific publications that were working
A stroll through CERN's underground-- we used the existing Street View from which Google Zurich had done already 2012,
My first project was-- so I married when I was a student. My wife, actually-- my wife studied law in Zurich . And we were both students that married.
Things like that. And so I started getting involved naturally in thinking about railway station. So the first major competition I won was a railway station in Zurich . Stadelhofen. And this introduced me into the world of public transportation and the public works, which I think is a very gratifying work because, as the name state,
Just right now, I'm heading off from Zurich .
So this is this model pronounced Midata in Switzerland coming out of ETH in Zurich that basically looks at the fact
oh hey, if you're ever in Zurich , you should look me up and come down to the office and I can give you a tour of Google.
No, but I'm in Zurich today, and it's timely, and I really want to talk you about.
One of my very first talks was actually at a Swiss bank out in Zurich .
Thank you for joining us for my first Authors@Google event in Zurich .
People took note of Larry and Sergey sightings and figured out strategies to stalk them. And I tell the story of one guy who came out from Zurich 'cause he really wanted to hear from Larry about the fate of his project, whether Larry had an idea of it. And he came from Zurich and went to a TGIF and actually talked first, talked to Sergey who said, "You have to talk to Larry." And went to Larry in his office there and had a conversation
lakes, Geneva Lake, Zurich Lake. And every time, you feel this achievement which makes you happy, makes you feel strong, and then you're
And so everyone of course noticed. And as many of you who are here in the audience today physically know, Switzerland and Zurich is a very small place. And so of course, you have common friends.
Roger brought his friend. And then he came in with his baseball cap deeply and-- but you also know, in Zurich , people leave Roger alone. So it's very much kind of this, hey, give him some space.
It's something we can do every single day, especially where we live-- Zurich , of course, right now, the Switzerland in general, Europe, America, Australia.
or electrical shop, being-- I don't know if you have in Zurich .
Probably not. What's your local electrical shop in Zurich ?
For instance, at Google in London and Paris and Zurich and Dublin, we worked with Google chefs.
It's called petrol here because these people I worked with were at the ETH in Zurich .
Really beautiful place. And there was also where I, at the time, met my boyfriend. And after finishing my studies, we moved back to Zurich . So I actually lived here in Zurich for two years.
That's about the size of metropolitan New Orleans, or Zurich , or Bristol in the UK.
And it turns out they are because a fellow Googler sees one of the comics that is posted about Zurich and he writes,
So, no, a deal guy is in Zurich and he wants to talk to me about a deal.
having us to Google this place is Amazing by the way I heard there's a office in Zurich is that true that's