Waymo’s first autonomous demo took eighteen months. The product took fifteen years. Today the @Waymo Driver runs 500,000 trips a week — 4 million fully autonomous miles across 15 cities, with 17x fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers. At Startup School 2026, Waymo co-CEO @dmitri_dolgov shares the seven lessons behind that journey, from bridging the gap between a demo and a real product to building systems that can safely operate in the physical world. 00:07 — 7 Lessons From…