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A long time veteran of some of the biggest names in US consumer tech - from a brief stint as Amazon ’ s head of product back in the late 90s , to leading roles at Motorola and Skype - Osterloh has been the driving force behind Google ’ s repeated attempts to be taken seriously as more than , uh , the world ’ s biggest and most influential tech firm ?
It took almost exactly 24 hours between Osterloh ’ s arrival as Google ’ s resident head of gadgets in 2016 and the conversation between him and company CEO , Sundar Pichai , in which they agreed that custom chipsets were the future of the Pixel .
“[ Google ’ s hardware ] organisation was started about five years ago … And we feel