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20 Growth: Why Retention Defines Product Market Fit, What is Good Retention Levels Today, The Most Counterintuitive Elements of Product and Growth & Why So Many Startups Mess Up Hiring For Growth Teams with Brian Hale, Head of Consumer Product & Growth @
- ▶ 5:26 Brian Hale He started up AdSense at Google, and he stopped that and did a startup, and I was helping him out with that when I was doing a startup before Facebook.
20VC: David Friedberg on The Framework for Business Value Creation, The Bifurcation in Venture Today That No One Talks About, The Impact of Interest Rate Hikes on Venture and Step by Step; How TPB Incubates, Funds and Exits The Next Generation of Companie
- ▶ 28:11 David Friedberg Applied Semantics, which was acquired by Google in 2003 or 2002, which became AdSense.
20VC: Faire's Max Rhodes on Three Steps To Hire the Best Candidates, Why Every Company Should Have a Strategy Doc and How To Do It & The Art of Referencing; How to Get the Most Out of Every Reference
- ▶ 10:37 Max Rhodes I got to work for Gokul Rajmuran, who, you know, is known as the godfather of AdSense, and so I think I was really fortunate to learn the craft.
20VC: Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit on Creating Gmail Version 1.0 & Leadership Lessons from Working With Zuckerberg and Larry Paige
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings He also developed the original prototype for Google AdSense, and even suggested the company's former motto, don't be evil.
20VC: Why Radical Candor Is Crucial in Workplaces, Why 85% of Work Relationship Mistakes Happen and Why You Should Not Try and Be More Likeable with Kim Scott, Co-Founder @ Candor Inc
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings She's also been a member of the faculty at Apple University, developing the course Managing at Apple, and before that, she spent five years at Google on AdSense, YouTube, and DoubleClick online sales and operations.
20VC: Homebrew's Hunter Walk on Why There Is No Series A Crunch, How To Package Portfolio Companies For The Next Round & Why The Bridge Round Is Not Always A Negative Sign?
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings As for Hunter, prior to Homebrew, Hunter led consumer product management at YouTube, which he originally joined in 2003, managing product and sales efforts for Google's AdSense.
- ▶ 4:41 Hunter Walk I also, I think, went in with a no regrets, uh, notion of, I had accomplished a lot of the work that I had set out to do at the Google, on AdSense, at YouTube, and earlier in my career at Linden Lab, building the virtual world Second Life.
20VC: Why There Is A Revolution In VC, Why Boards Are Inherently Inefficient & Why Data Will Be Central To VC In The Future with Chris Farmer, General Partner @ SignalFire
- ▶ 4:03 Chris Farmer And so we pulled together a small angel fund where I made a few investments in companies like Applied Semantics, which you know today as Google AdSense and a company called SkyBits that would be in this sort of industrial IoT SaaS category.
20VC: Redpoint's Tom Tunguz on Winning with Data: How To Gain A Competitive Advantage & Dominate Markets with Data and 5 Steps To Create A Data Driven Company
- ▶ 3:47 Tomasz Tunguz And I was working in the AdSense team, and we were kind of neck and neck.
20 VC 086: Starting A New Venture Fund and How London Compares To The US with Hussein Kanji @ Hoxton Ventures
- ▶ 5:09 Hussein Kanji So you could build a startup literally from almost anywhere in the world and leverage the fact that you had Facebook's API or the App Store or Google Play or, you know, AdWords or AdSense and build a community of users and