Inside Gemini: How Google Runs Product for Its Model

In this episode, Tulsee Doshi, who leads product for Google's Gemini models, joins me for the fourth conversation in the "Inside PM" series. Tulsee has spent eleven years at Google, moving through Search and YouTube before taking on product for the Gemini family and Google's video, image, and audio models. We get into how her team avoids building a boring product, why their blend of platform work and lab work feels like a new kind of product management, and what she looks for in the PMs she thinks will thrive in that environment.

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Key topics:

• Why customer requests get weighed against research the customers can't see

• Why stack-ranking every request would leave you with a boring product

• The 20 prompts trick for turning a vague ask into a great eval

• How to know a model is ready to ship without waiting a year

• Reading a model's "vibes," and why Simon Tokumine's gut check carries real weight

• Prototyping features that don't work yet on purpose

• Why "technical" on her team means thorough, not a computer science degree

• The Nano Banana moment that "fuels all of the other chaos"

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