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Feldman claims NeoClouds face massive cost disadvantages buying Nvidia hardware
“When Google or when Cerebris puts our equipment in our own data center, right, we have a significant advantage Over a NeoCloud, because NeoClouds are buying hardware with gross margins of 70, 80% for NVIDIA.”
O'Driscoll: OpenAI and Anthropic capture almost all commercial LLM revenue
“And when you look at what's actually going on, the big two guys are getting all the money. Gemini, for some reason, doesn't appear to be able to do a great job of developing code or love and just getting that kind of traction because coding is where it's all h…”
Masad: Studying computer science just for high Google salaries is over
“Now, if you're not into computer science, if you don't feel like you're drawn to it, like a fly drawn, drawn to a light, then don't go into it because someone told you you're going to make a boatload of money working for Google. That's gone. So that it's prett…”
Lemkin: Mid-cap tech buyers cannot afford $1B YC startup valuations
“Google can buy them, but HubSpot, what's HubSpot's valuation as we record this? In the teens of billions? They just can't afford a billion dollar for every YC startup. They don't have the money.”
Levie: CS grads will join industrial giants over big tech
“Maybe if you're graduating, you know, name your computer science school today, you don't go immediately to Google. You go to literally John Deere or Caterpillar or Eli Lilly, but the skills that you have are going to be just as relevant in just a different dom…”
Midha: Europe needs Google-scale compute infrastructure for AI sovereignty
“Like that's roughly what the continent needs for full sovereignty, right? To have as, at least as much infrastructure locally as there is within the alphabet holdings sort of pool. Over the next four years.”
Reyna: OpenAI, Google, and ElevenLabs will buy new foundational model startups
“OpenAI and Anthropic will end up, and Google will end up buying, and 11 Labs will end up buying, like, all of the new foundational model companies that will be popping up and creating research and paying just, like, a few billion here, a few billion there, and…”
Rajaram: Startups must avoid competing directly on Google's primary roadmap
“If you're a startup, which is directly in Google's roadmap, like directly, you should not be building it because Google is very good when something is directly in order. They're like a tank. It will just roll over you even slowly, slowly, but it doesn't matter…”
Zinman: Google AI search hit 10% of Monday.com's new ARR acquisition
“It was about 10% of our acquisition in terms of new ARR but again, Google is very transactional, so people usually, when they're searching for something, they're willing to buy at this point because the intent is very high, so we lost some of the more transact…”
Jerry Murdock: Google and Gemini are better long-term assets than OpenAI
“They can, and they are long-term better assets. They've got, if I have an autonomous agent business and I've got Gmail, you're going to have a phenomenal asset that open AI doesn't have.”
Cohen: Navan's internal AI routing is shifting significantly toward Google models
“We've seen our agentic platform, Cognition, plays between models based on who will give you the best answer, and actually we saw movement much more to Google recently. A lot of the transactions with Edge, which we didn't release yet, but you know, we have it i…”
Omer Shai says most relevant global web traffic remains on Google
“And again, in general, when you are looking at most of the traffic, the relevant traffic in the world, it's still on Google.”
Lemkin: Google Search Is Unusable and Useless for Product Discovery
“I mean, I find Google unusable for discovery, unusable today. It is all random. I can't look, I it's great to see vendors. I can't figure out which product to use or buy. Google's useless.”
Harries: ElevenLabs founders want to build a bigger company than Google
“Matty and Peter literally want to build a bigger company than Google.”
O'Driscoll: Skeptical the Market Can Support Ten Separate AI Research Labs
“It will be interesting to see, can the world support 10? Research labs coming up with 10 different variants of AI, all of which have to build either commercial or consumer businesses. I think on aggregate I'm fairly skeptical, but it's less a quality of, I mea…”
Lemkin: Custom chip competition will not threaten Nvidia's dominance in 2026
“You're a fool to invest against Nvidia for 2026. And I think you are arguably a fool to invest into Amazon in 20, 26 for a simple reason. Just a simple, I didn't say 20, 27 or 20, 28. It is not enough time for all this competition to come online. It is not eno…”
Lemkin: Google is corporate investor of the year for its massive stakes
“Owning almost 10% of SpaceX, owning, ah, perhaps 14% of Anthropic, depending on dilution, right? Now, and obviously, now this is the greatest in circular investment of all, owning the vast majority of Waymo, which is going to blow up. But those three are, like…”
O'Driscoll: Disney issued a cease-and-desist letter to Google over IP usage
“They sent a cease and desist letter to Google Because for unlicensed use of the content.”
O'Driscoll: Meta and Google control 70% of all global advertising
“Facebook and Google have 70% of not just all digital advertising, but all advertising.”
Shlomo: Google is most likely to win the LLM race
“Google. By far. They have the compute. They're moving very fast. If Gemini at some point wins the race, like literally wins the race then they have the entire stack. Including like Google Cloud and whatever, whatever they need and they have the data and whatev…”
Lemkin: Google is underappreciated while Amazon is overappreciated
“I do think that for the moment, Google is underappreciated and Amazon is overappreciated.”
Lloyd: Google faces a classic innovator's dilemma in AI
“I think Google's a risk. Like, I would never have said that five, 10 years ago. I find myself using ChatGPT more and more, and so I think they have big innovators dilemma problem.”
Degnan: Product-led growth fails alone in enterprise sales
“So PLG is great, but if you want to sell to the enterprise is hyper-political, and you have to have a sales process to do that. And at some point, The PLG motion will fail you, or it won't get you to that, that large enterprise. And if you aspire to sell the l…”
Slonimski: YouTube and Google Demand Gen Can Beat All Discovery Channels
“Google search is, like, overhyped. The whole demand generation piece of Google is underhyped, and YouTube is a huge part of that. We just started entering YouTube with, like, short-term and long-term videos, and it can become huge. It can beat all discovery ch…”
Ross: Amazon lacks AI DNA compared to Google, Meta, and Microsoft
“Amazon, I think doesn't have AI DNA. And they, like, if you compare them, so you didn't mention Meta, right? But Meta and Google always had the AI DNA, and Microsoft bought it with OpenAI, but that bought them time. Amazon still doesn't have that DNA, but they…”
O'Driscoll: AI search threatens media sites, not product companies
“In fairness, the kind of, the SEO, I think you have to distinguish between people like Canva where they have a product to sell and they're totally happy to sell it via ChatGPT, and then media companies where the only product they have is their content, where i…”
Frosst: Google failed to quickly commercialize or scale the Transformer
“It wasn't then commercialized very quickly within Google. It wasn't scaled up very quickly within Google. A lot of that work had to be done elsewhere and years later.”
Frosst: All creators of the Transformer architecture eventually left Google
“It is interesting that all the people who worked on the transformer left To continue to work on the transformer.”
O'Driscoll: OpenAI Will Hit $1T-$2T Valuation via Subscriptions and Ads
“Looks like its market share is pretty hard to change at this stage. So you start multiplying. You know, you'll have a paid tier of 20 bucks times a lot of people. You'll at some point have an advertising tier, and plus or minus your Google with a subscription …”
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.”
Varun Mohan: Open-sourcing Windsurf front end would not harm adoption or success
“I don't think it would affect, affect much if we had to make it open source, because most of the work that it's kind of like the thing I said before, right? You know, Google is, yeah, they have a front end, but the front end is just a single box. And if they o…”
Harries: ElevenLabs Founders Aim to Build a Company Larger Than Google
“Matty and Peter literally want to build a bigger company than Google. They want to build something absolutely massive.”
Socher: LLMs will capture search whenever queries are complex
“And so LMs as part of that unbundling wave of Google, LMs will capture whenever you have a more complex question.”
Morin: Google TPUs lack commercial success outside of Google
“They are very much successful inside of Google, but not much outside of Google, let's say, right?”
Morin: Cloud compute hoarding creates fake AI GPU scarcity
“So in, in the case of, you know, Amazon or Google, that would be buying reserved compute, which you're not going to use because if you buy it on demand, you will get tremendously ripped off. So that creates this like face scarcity of compute because that peopl…”
Morin: Google is the sleeping giant of the AI race
“Google has, like, you know, Android, Google Docs, Whatever, they have everything, they can sprinkle everywhere. This is the sleeping giant in my mind.”
Ross: LLMs are better than search, forcing Google to reinvent itself
“Now, Google, ah, has to redo this because LLMs are better than search, right?”
Ramaswamy: OpenAI and Anthropic Lead AI; Google Gemini Is Fast Follow
“It's OpenAI and Anthropic that have created the best models on the planet for the last three years. It's not Microsoft. It's not Amazon. It's not Google. It looks like, you know, Gemini is good, but let's face it, it's at best a fast follow.”
Malik: Perplexity's ultimate target is competing directly against Google
“I think search is a massive market to go after, and so if there's somewhere we want to live, it's going up against the big guy.”
Villig: Google heavily subsidizes Waymo rides to mask high operational costs
“Yeah, but there's a difference between price and cost. Google is one of the wealthiest companies on the planet. They can keep on subsidizing millions of rights for a long time. That doesn't mean the cost structure is there.”
Grimm: Defense will never be a venture-style winner-take-all market
“I don't think there will ever be a kind of venture style dynamic of a winner take all. I don't think this is a situation of like Google versus Yahoo where, where one is the obvious dominant winner by 10 X and then there's the other rands. I don't think that's …”
Wang: Google faces more threats today than ever before in its history
“I do think there are more threats on Google's business than there have been ever in the company's history.”
Kant: Poolside, OpenAI, and Anthropic will rival Big Tech in AI
“What I would like to see and what I think is going to happen is that it's not just Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. It's going to be, you know, an open eye, an anthropic, a poolside, and a set of companies who are able to get that massive escape velocity needed …”
Kant: Google relies on Broadcom for TPUs while Amazon works with fabs
“Because while Google has to work with Broadcom to be able to bring TPUs into the world, Amazon is working with the fabs directly.”
Carter: Apple and Google will lower App Store fees within 10 years
“I do think that there may be some factors over the next 10 years that start to make this a little bit easier. For example, 15 to 30% app store fees. I think Google and Apple are under increasing pressure to lower the average app store fee, at least in certain …”
Khan: Wiz likely made a mistake rejecting Google's $23 billion buyout offer
“When a business is very small, it's very easy to look at the business saying that, hey, this could be a great business, and in a ways very much could be, I don't know, but the reality is, you know, how many times we have seen that every 50 companies we look at…”
Cahn: Big Tech AI Spending Is Speculative, Not a Guarantee of Revenue
“The wrong takeaway is, oh, Google knows something we don't know, and therefore is making this investment, and therefore hundreds of billions of dollars of AI revenue are guaranteed in the next two years. That's the extrapolation I think people were making that…”