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How to Build a $100M Growth Engine: Lessons from Wispr Flow & Superhuman | Matt Swulinski
- ▶ 25:11 Matt Swulinski Um, it is one of the core elements in what gets your site to rank in let's say a top 10 position on, on Google.
We Built Our Own Salesforce in Months. Here's Why We're Cancelling the $600K Contract | Curative CEO
- ▶ 53:07 Fred Turner And she will go Google it, research them, learn a little bit about their practice, um, figure out what other payers are paying them, because there's a lot of this data out there and these transparency files now of how much are they getting…
Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:34 Nikesh Arora Like Google searches, now you Google something, right?
- ▶ 20:57 Nikesh Arora Google search was around.
Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:33 Aravind Srinivas Perplexity changed Google.com more than any product manager Google has ever done.
- ▶ 4:19 Aravind Srinivas You could argue that I, or the company perplexity changed Google.com more than any product manager Google has ever done.
OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:56 unnamed speaker Agents don't agents don't hop on Google and do search. 4 times in the scene
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:57:24 Harry Stebbings I think Sam Altman said it very well when he said, you know, older people use it as a replacement to Google and younger people use it as their operating system for life.
SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:11 unnamed speaker The other thing just, and again, it's not totally my expertise, but when, when again, when I look back, when we started this show, a lot of folks thought AI would kill Google search and maim Facebook, that Facebook was dying as a platform… 3 times in the scene
Elena Verna: How Lovable Launches Product & Hacks Social to Go Viral · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:09 Elena Verna But it's not an SEM, it's not an AdWords ad, it's not a paid marketing advertisement on top of Google search results, and I think people underestimate association of their brand with that creator and their ability to target very specific…
Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:24 Eran Zinman So we were affected, uh, by one thing, uh, which is, uh, Google introducing AI mode in the search results.
OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:11 Alexander Emberikos It's kind of like, you know, how, like with Google search, it's just like, okay, anything I need to do, I just like go into this text box and I can get navigated to the right location.
20Growth: How Wix Built a $100M Marketing Machine | Why LTV is BS and Why Time Return On Investment is the Most Important Metric | How to 10x Your Growth: What is the Next Great Channel with Omer Shai, CMO @ Wix
- ▶ 31:46 Omer Shai We need to be relevant for the AI search and we need to be relevant for Google search.
- ▶ 50:31 Harry Stebbings And that older people use it as a replacement for Google.
20VC: Inside Bending Spoons Acquisition Machine: Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo | How Evernote Evaluates Acquisitions and New Product Ideas | How Evernote Mastered Product Launches, User Retention and Monetisation with Federico Simionato
- ▶ 57:45 Harry Stebbings Google search? 2 times in the scene
Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:20 unnamed speaker Obviously executed really well in cloud and the model, and fundamentally the core search business has not declined nearly as much. 3 times in the scene
Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:47 Harry Stebbings I think Sam Altman said it very well in terms of how people use ChatGPT, but he said, you know, essentially the majority of people use it like Google, like Google replacement, and actually the younger people use it as an operating system…
20Growth: How to Use Influencers to Scale Growth Insanely Fast | How to Optimise User Onboaring for Growth | How the Best Growth Teams Create Organic Growth and Community | Why LTV/CAC Models are BS with Ketty Slonimsky
- ▶ 52:41 Ketty Slonimski So Google search is, like, overhyped.
Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:38 Jonathan Ross It's a little bit like saying, you know, that Google search is pretty nice.
Surge CEO & Co-Founder, Edwin Chen: Scaling to $1BN+ in Revenue with NO Funding · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:01 Edwin Chen I think they can't go after everything, but there are so many things where, yeah, you literally just want to chat with the model in this very simplistic universal interface that, again, I think about Google search. 2 times in the scene
20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025
- ▶ 1:04:09 unnamed speaker Like, it is Google search. 2 times in the scene
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:50 unnamed speaker The same way that Google won search reasonably read large, except maybe kayak, uh, for, for travel.
20VC: Foundation Models: Who Wins & Who Loses | How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI | China vs the US in an AI Race: What You Need to Know | Rich Socher, Founder @ You.com
- ▶ 9:27 Harry Stebbings Go from Google to Bing, just the same, but you don't. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:02 Harry Stebbings Do we see Gemini integrated into Google search?
Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:55 Kevin Scott And then you still have search engines like, uh, being in Google, um, that are out there.
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:04 Harry Stebbings They do, but they monetize those businesses with other cash cows, which is obviously, you know, search for Google and most predominantly, we'll see what that is moving forwards, but like,
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:15 Sridhar Ramaswamy They, they, they took search, um, moved it over.
- ▶ 45:19 Sridhar Ramaswamy Uh, so, okay, if we were to, um, deconstruct, um, Google Search and why it came to dominate, first and foremost, uh, Google did a bunch of deals to basically become the default search engine with a whole pile of players. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:40 Sridhar Ramaswamy Um, but on the enterprise side, I absolutely see, um, there being all kinds of specializations because so far in whatever the last 50 years, it's not the case that there's been an equivalent of Google search.
George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:12 George Sivulka And so I sat on the curb and I cold called every number on Google, you know, from, from, from my old phone.
Guy Podjarny: The Future of AI Software Development - What is Real & What is BS | E1232 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:14 unnamed speaker Uh, and I think Google is so deeply ingrained and have the distribution around, uh, around search. 3 times in the scene
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:39 Harry Stebbings We're building a Google killer.
Phil Carter: Growth Loops, CAC + LTV Benchmarks, Pricing, Discounts, Paywalls... | E1204 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:29 Phil Carter The problem was, when we looked at the technical SEO metrics, things like what percentage of new sets created, sets are like the atomic unit of content on Quizlet, so what percentage of sets, ah, created in the UK are actually getting…
- ▶ 1:16:24 Phil Carter So like chat, GPT, anthropic, Gemini, whatever the case may be, is going to displace Google searches. 2 times in the scene
Scott Gorlick: How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers & The Uber’s Expansion Playbook | E1196 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:48 Scott Gorlick So they basically kind of locked in people for a year and, you know, if you believe that perplexity could be like the next Google search, you know, you're happy to pay that CAC or sort of that free membership and sort of
Ethan Mollick: Why OpenAl Abandons Products, The Biggest Opportunities They Have Not Taken | E1184 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:18 Ethan Mollick We don't know exactly, probably two orders of magnitude than a Google search, but a lot less orders of magnitude energy than a human doing the same amount of work, right, with a laptop.
Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:15 unnamed speaker To take on, you know, Google search.
Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:10 Aravind Srinivas Then, on the other hand, Word, Docs, Gmail, Google search.
Matt Lerner: How to Hire Growth Leaders and Teams and Why in a World of AI | E1159 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:22 Matt Lerner You hear from a salesperson, some partner brings you in to enable you to do something, you see some ads, you do a Google search, or there's some content or inbound, um, you know, paid ads, or maybe hear about it from an influencer. 2 times in the scene
Bastian Lehmann: How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN | E1137 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:21 Bastian Lehmann And as a result of that, they're dramatically more expensive than a Google search.
Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:03 Frank Quattrone To me, it was the same reaction I had when I saw Google search versus, you know, the initial search engines, and the same reaction I had when I first saw VisiCalc, the electronic spreadsheet, when I had to do manual calculations before…
Will Wu: Top Five Product Lessons from Creating Snapchat "Discover" and "Chat" | E1111 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:39 Guillermo Rauch Like the inspiration for me is like Google search where like there is nothing to do except for an input and like everything is so simple and like the magic is in the implementation and there is all this unfair advantages of access to data…
Richard Socher: The 3 Biggest Barriers to Building AGI; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1050 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:53 Richard Socher Um, you know, we just got deranked in all our sites from Google and saw like a drop, um, right away.
- ▶ 40:09 Richard Socher But the main Google experience is the same.
Noah Weiss: How to Master Product-Led Growth; Scaling PLG to Enterprise at Google & Slack | E1026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:40 Noah Weiss And I think the thing that struck me the most, because back then I worked on a feature team within search, but you kind of saw how the executives view product strategy.
Ryan Wiggins: Scaling WhatsApp from 0-100M; How to Build a Growth Team; Mercury Neobank | E1016 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:01 Ryan Wiggins If you just go, go Google, uh, sample size calculator for an experiment, this is something I use all the time because basically, you know, if you're trying to make a one percent change, you need a huge audience.
Oana Olteanu: Why Founders Should Expect More From Their VCs | 20VC #950 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:05 Harry Stebbings I had to Google Schrodinger's VC.
Hubspot CMO Kipp Bodnar: Why the Best Marketers Think Like VCs | 20VC w/ Harry Stebbings #930 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:41 Kipp Bodnar Because classic Google search is the first place everybody goes. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:53 Kipp Bodnar Normally it's ads plus one other thing, whether it be YouTube, whether it be Google search, whether it be some type of free product virality, whatever the, the, the, the, the company that scales goes public really kind of has a future to…
Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14 Luc Levesque How much traffic do you get from different sources like Google or Google Images?
20 Product: Robinhood CPO on The 3 Stages of Product Management, How to Structure and Execute Great Product Reviews, The Secret to Building a World-Class Hiring Funnel in Product Team Building with Aparna Chennapragada
- ▶ 5:04 Aparna Chennapragada You know, it's actually, I feel like it's like three Googles, even during the time I was there, and I think I'd say the first Google, this is just like mainly search, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:45 unnamed speaker But where I started, though, is that actually, like, I revved up excitement around personalization as an effort in search. 2 times in the scene
Sid Sijbrandij: How I Founded GitLab; Remote Work vs In-Person; CEO Coaches | 20VC · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:42 Sid Sijbrandij So if you Google GitLab communication, you'll find a long list.
- ▶ 33:28 Sid Sijbrandij So if you Google GitLab board meetings, you'll find more information.
20Growth: The Biggest Lie in Startup Growth and Marketing, Why You Do Not Need To Diversify Customer Acquisition Channels in the Early Days & When and How To Build Your Growth Team with Rob Schutz, Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer @ Ro
- ▶ 29:40 Rob Schutz It is not somebody goes off in a corner and rips Google search campaigns, and everyone's job is done.
20VC: Sequoia's Doug Leone on What Has Been Instrumental To Scaling Sequoia Over Generations, How Sequoia Think About International Expansion and What They Learned From China and India & Why When You Lose Pre-Seed You Become Private Equity
- ▶ 28:36 Doug Leone In engineering, well, Bill Korn used to run Google search.
20VC: CapitalG's Laela Sturdy on The Current State of Growth with Crossover, PE and Hedge Funds All Entering, How To Think Through Upside and Downside Scenario Planning at Growth & The Biggest Challenges Startups Face Post Product-Market-Fit but Pre-Scale
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Duolingo, Gusto, UiPath, and Uncork, to name a few, and prior to Capital G, Leila was at Google as a managing director of emerging businesses, and held leadership roles within YouTube and Search, and this schedule was such a team effort, a…
20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 11:59 Cyan Banister To so many people from all walks of life, and I don't Google search people before I meet them.
20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda
- ▶ 5:06 Shishir Mehrotra Google search was fairly really a simple idea that search was simply wasn't relevant and fast enough.
20VC: Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely, Raising $32M From Benchmark and GV Pre-Launch and How To Think Through Capital Efficiency and Runway Today with Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, Co-Founders @ Digits
- ▶ 17:33 Jeff Seibert And you can Google it for people watching. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Howard Marks on How COVID-19 Impacts Our Economy, Liquidity and National Debt, Why The Theory of Falling Knives and Market Bottoms is Wrong & Why The Best Investors Are Fundamentally Unemotional
- ▶ 17:25 Howard Marks You can't look it up in a book, or you can't Google it.
Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Transition as a Venture Firm & The Dangers of Attribution In Venture
- ▶ 11:44 Todd Jackson But a lot of those projects, Search, Maps, Gmail, Chrome, Android, ended up being super successful.
20VC: Kapwing Founder Julia Enthoven on Why Marketing Innovation Is As Important As Product Innovation, Why Every Company Is Becoming A Media Company & The Benefits Of Not Raising Money Too Early
- ▶ 4:50 Julia Enthoven So while we were there, we'd learned a lot about products related to multimedia, like videos and gifts, images, music on Google search.
- ▶ 7:31 Julia Enthoven We've acquired most of our users for free through Google search, which is a super accessible distribution channel, even for bootstrapping founders.
20VC: Why Raising A First Time Fund Is Like Raising A Seed Round, Why We Need New and Different Fund Models & Why Longevity Is The Most Rewarding Place To Invest with Laura Deming, Founding Partner @ The Longevity Fund
- ▶ 4:29 Laura Deming Yeah, so on longevity front, I remember, you know, when I was a kid, and I first got interested in this subject, I went to my computer, and I think it was one of the first Google searches I must have done, um, called, like, aging science,…
20VC: USV's Rebecca Kaden on Whether Venture Returns Can Be Made At Scale In Consumer Today & How To Navigate Consumer Investing In A World of Amazon
- ▶ 28:11 Rebecca Kaden They wind up going down a deep Google hole that's
20VC: Hims' Andrew Dudum on The Scaling Playbook of The Fastest Growing Mens Wellness Brand, How To Be Truly Innovative In Today's World of Online Marketing & Raising at a $200m Valuation within Year 1
- ▶ 3:20 Andrew Dudum So men would result to late night Google searches and incognito browser mode on their iPhone and find very, very scary stuff online and snake oil, and I think what HIMSS aims to do is educate men about the normalcy of these issues, the…
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
- ▶ 4:09 Tomasz Tunguz He and I built a tool using the Google search index to figure out exactly where Yahoo ads were running, where Google ads were running, and basically every day we could tell you exactly what the competitive market share would be.
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 3:41 Christian Hernandez The product engineering team for Google were initially based out of London, um, and trying to convince Motorola and Samsung to preload Google maps and Google search things that we live with daily now, right?
20VC FF: Hiten Shah on VC Funded vs Bootstrapped Businesses and How He Decides Which Startups To Advise
- ▶ 17:39 Hiten Shah You know, I, I, I'm just very good at Googling.
Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
- ▶ 45:45 Harry Stebbings What's the Google search?