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A single item today: a Google Labs leader explains how his team decides which ideas to pursue and when to kill them, in a conversation aimed at product teams.

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Google Labs' Josh Woodward on running product teams like a lab

Josh Woodward, who leads Google Labs, the Gemini app and AI Studio, tells Lenny's Podcast that every company needs a frontier team experimenting with the latest models, that good ideas come from curious people hacking on side projects rather than scheduled brainstorms, and that most big-company labs fizzle out unless they bridge their work back to the core business.

Why it mattersIt offers a concrete playbook for how large companies can keep pace with fast-moving AI capabilities instead of being disrupted by startups.

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