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Ep. 8 | From General Magic Idealism to the White House | Megan Smith
Before she was Employee #12 at General Magic, Megan Smith grew up in Buffalo, studied mechanical engineering at MIT, and was working in Tokyo on multimedia projects for Apple Japan when a chance meeting with Bill Atkinson brought her into the company building the first mobile communication devices. She went on to an eleven-year run at Google — leading the acquisitions of Google Earth and Google Maps — before President Obama appointed her the third Chief Technology Officer of the United States in 2014.
In this conversation with Mike and Hersh, Megan makes the case for an optimism she’s carried…
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