This is very encouraging. Finding talent is damnably difficult. Seeing new hires getting things done in the progress reports says many positive and subtle things.
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Wow havent been lurking in a while and i see you guys are still rolling with these updates awesome!
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@nicklambert could you please give us an brief update/some details regarding the google meeting this week, what day are you presenting on? Thx in advance !
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Sure. Presenting on Thursday from their European HQ in Dublin. Itâs a 20/25 presentation with 20 minutes of questions. The event will be attended by local staff and will be streamed to another 20 European offices and then made available to all Google staff to watch later. The presentation will be a high level look at what SAFE is, why we need autonomous networks, and then safecoin.
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Followed by 25 minutes on SAFE-FS 
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Thanks. Seems like its just an intruduction to SAFE? There must be some backgroud for this, maybe we cannot know it yet? 
Lets hope you have build some connections at Google, and this will evolve into cooperation which will make the project truly global and well known for the cryptosociety.
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Yes an introduction is exactly what it is. @dirvine has had contact with Google in the past (Vint Cerf) so they will be aware of us at some level already and I would think some of their developers will have come across the project at one time or another. These huge companies can be very siloed so advisable to have multiple contacts within a company like this.
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Fascinating. I am sure you canât comment on howâs and whyâs, but it is interesting nevertheless. Obviously, there is a double edged sword at play, but if they get the vision and start to take safe net seriously, it could be rather beneficial.
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@nicklambert could you confirm if David will also be participating on the Google meeting?
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Just me @mocksockkk, David is ultra focussed on routing/data chains design and implementation at the moment, and this forum of course :).
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Will this be recorded and something the community can watch later?
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Looks like itâll be used by Google only and not released.
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Isnt google one of the issues Maid was addressing?
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They would be one hell of a customer and endorsement though. It would garner attention and only benefit SAFE and the cause.
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Unless they buy maidsafe out⌠
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I doubt that David would let that happen honestly. Lisence for sure but purchase to possibly be shelved by a company that loves to acquire and shelf? I donât think so.
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Or sell a stake. Who knows?
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We often hear of all these new partnerships, Ripple/Visa, Iota/Microsoft, Stellar/IBM the list goes on. While its probable this is nothing more than a talk/presentation it sure would be nice to start seeing partnerships develop.
Perhaps just just a little too early at this point?
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Agree 100%, we have had approaches from some of those companies such as MS, its really for them to âsellâ us their service or make it easy for our service to run on their stuff like Azure. Its more sales for them and could help us. I see many projects get that approach and then call it a partnership etc. I find that misleading though as its not a partnership as folk expect. Its more a sales route and some hype for a project, but really based on nothing much. Its like buying a burger and announcing a trading deal with McDonalds
Like you though I think real partnerships will come about and some may be with not huge profit companies and mean more to us, like perhaps Mozilla, SOLID etc. and some will be companies with huge reach like the Google/Microsoft etc. The former for value the latter for profit, right now though I think value is our goal, profit later but profit in the most acceptable manner, if that makes sense.
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Like it! And the partnership would most likely be the sort that a cow has with McDonalds. 
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