search

8 statements across 8 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Apr 22, 2016 by Nicolas Dessaigne · across every show →

Everything said about search, oldest first

Apr 22, 2016 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
SaaS Search Will Overtake On-Premise Search by 2021
“Search Is moving from on-premise to SaaS, and it's going to accelerate in the next five years. And so I believe that in five years SaaS will be actually much stronger than on-premise.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Apr 22, 2016 ▶ 22:37 20VC: Fundraising Is Also Business Development with Nicolas Dessaigne, Co-Founder & CEO @ Algolia
Apr 21, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Tunguz: Chat interfaces will replace traditional web search for many use cases
“I didn't believe that chat would replace search, but I think for many use cases, it will.”
Tomasz Tunguz Apr 21, 2023 ▶ 45:16 Tomasz Tunguz: How I Raised $230M; ChatGPT vs. Google; How LLMs Work; Trump vs DeSantis | E1004 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 24, 2023 positive
Insight
Text Feeds and Search Have the Highest Monetization Efficiency in Tech
“A text-based feed is about the highest monetization efficiency of any sort of online business I've seen. I think that and search are basically the two. Just because the number of things you consume per hour is just incredibly high because it's so light.”
Adam Mosseri Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 1:06:08 Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 17, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Quinn: OpenAI's app store will become a major new search channel
“If OpenAI really do the, like, app store of AI, then that's gonna be, like, a new search.”
Nicole Quinn Nov 17, 2023 ▶ 0:04 Roundtable #6 with Rebecca Kaden, Nicole Quinn, Eurie Kim, Harry Stebbings | E1083 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 31, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Scott: Search economics flow entirely to large integrated infrastructure operators
“All of the economics in search go to like somebody who's stood up a gigantic infrastructure and who's sort of running like a whole. Search business like with its own feedback loop.”
Kevin Scott Mar 31, 2025 ▶ 18:02 Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 31, 2025 bearish
Opinion
O'Driscoll: Google failing at AI would destroy its search business
“Like I would argue for Google, if they misfired on AI, they wouldn't have search.”
Rory O'Driscoll Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 1:01:50 Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 13, 2025
Assertion Supported
Cannon-Brookes: Developers spend as much time searching as writing code
“Search is probably about the same amount of time as writing code for most software developers as a professional.”
Mike Cannon-Brookes Oct 13, 2025 ▶ 36:29 Atlassian CEO, Mike Cannon-Brookes on Why Everything is Overvalued & Are We in an AI Bubble · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 20, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Tunguz: Agentic coding product-market fit ranks second only to search
“Look, I think product market fit for agent decoding is probably the best of any use case aside from search.”
Tomasz Tunguz Nov 20, 2025 ▶ 2:04 Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA - Why? & Why VC Will Hit $1TRN and The Opening of Retail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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