Working for a large company

Geertjan Wielenga: Also, people who are not working for vendors often forget that developer advocates coming from the large vendors often have a choice on which tech they want to work with. Couldn't you be working on something totally different from TensorFlow at Google?

Laurence Moroney: It's funny because I joined Google as a cloud advocate because that was what I was hired to do. I really enjoyed that, but I preferred mobile. So, when the opportunity came to jump ship to mobile, I think I became a better advocate because that was something that I was passionate about.

That ended up morphing into me becoming an advocate for Firebase and a little over a year ago, I was working on a tech in Firebase called Firebase Predictions, which uses AI around your analytics to help you to determine customer churn and customer spend. That uses machine learning under the hood and it helped me to drive a lot of feedback to the AI group within...