Tears, explosion of sad emojis: Jeff Dean shares last few hours at Google

Google's former chief scientist Jeff Dean shared an hour-by-hour timeline of his last two days at Google at the KDD 2026 conference in Jeju. It covers an emotional video call breaking the news to 139 close colleagues, a farewell party 1,500 people crashed, a 2:30 AM scramble to answer 400 disappearing chat messages, and one minute of unemployment before he became Discovery Loop co-founder at midnight.