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O'Driscoll: Apple generates $2.6M revenue per employee, Google generates $2.1M
“Apple's about 2.6 million revenue per employee. You know, Google is 2.1.”
Calacanis: Google almost bailed out Tesla when it faced bankruptcy
“Google almost bailed out Tesla at the last hour when it almost went bankrupt.”
Google and Facebook user monetization grew sevenfold over the last decade
“10 years ago, Google and Facebook were monetizing their users at like one-seventh of what they are today.”
Lemkin: Replit updated platform to dynamically rotate LLM providers automatically
“Now with Replit, you don't pick your model anymore. It's all dynamic. It's all gone. You don't pick a lot. You don't pick high reasoning. You don't pick short reasoning. You don't pick anything. It just, and it rotates Google and others”
Rory O'Driscoll: Google is spending $90 billion on CapEx this year
“Google is spending ninety billion this year on CapEx.”
Big Four Tech Giants Generate $600B in Annual Operating Cash Flow
“You look at Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta combined, I mean, they're doing six hundred billion of operating cash flow, just cash coming off the company every single year”
Pishevar: Uber's Series D valuation was negotiated up to $17B from $10B
“So that Series D, like a year after the Series C, which Google and TPG did, that was at three billion. This was at seventeen billion, and we started off at 10. So, Emil was able to negotiate from, like, 10, eleven billion valuation to 17, because there was so …”
Hoffman: DeepMind algorithms reduced Google data center electricity usage by 15%
“It was, I think, five, seven, eight years ago, DeepMind ran their algorithms on Google's data centers and figured out how to save 15% of the electricity.”
Dmitry Gurski: Flo team achieved six startup exits including Google and Facebook
“We had six exits up to this moment. We had exit to Google, exit to Facebook, ah, we started several companies, ah which have has revenue in a 100,000,050 million.”
Google allocated product roadmaps 70/20/10 across incremental, growth, and moonshots
“They used to have this model, they called it the 70, 20, 10 model. And it's actually a pretty fascinating way of thinking about just a product roadmap and the distribution within it. So, 70% of the product Teams were focused on what are things that are known v…”
Lauren Schwartz: Google used double-crediting sales commissions for parental leave
“When I was at Google, there was a double conch policy. So everyone wins and everyone's incentivized around the same thing.”
Mullenweg: Early Google survey showed WordPress on 0.8% of websites
“And shortly after that, maybe a year or two after that, we started to see WordPress show up in like whole internet numbers. And I remember the first time Google did a survey and they found this weird header in HTTP responses that they were like, we're not sure…”
Jain: Android Grew From Under 1M Total Users To 1M Daily New Users
“We had less than a million total users on Android at the time. It was a phenomenal journey for me to kind of see Android grow from less than a million total users to about a million new users a day.”
Hamid: Kleiner Perkins invested $10M for 10% in Google's Series A
“I think the Kleiner check was Ten million dollars for like 10% in the Google series A.”
Gil: Android had 11 to 12 employees when acquired by Google
“Andy Rubin was acquired when Android was, I think, about 11, 12 people, and then obviously that led to this amazing handset OS and sort of platform for the world.”
Marissa Mayer invested as an angel in Adrian Aoun's startup Wavy
“So one of the angel investors in Wavy was Marissa Mayer. Now, Wavy was a search company, and Marissa at the time ran search at Google.”
Google Search Ad Clicks for Life Insurance Cost $50 to $100
“If you go to Google and you search life insurance, the click is 50 dollars or a hundred dollars.”
Kimball: Google replaced all sharded MySQL with Spanner and Bigtable
“Spanner is the database technology that Google has used to consolidate all of their various applications on top of. So they no longer use Sharded MySQL. Everything's on Spanner or on Bigtable.”
Tunguz: Google AdSense was neck-and-neck with Yahoo in early 2005
“Early 2005, we were neck and neck with Yahoo, which was the big competitor trying to run ads on other people's websites.”
Tunguz: Google required product manager candidates to score 3.5 out of 4.0
“I remember at Google, when we were interviewing product managers, we would take these packets and we would have all these different, we were doing structured interviews at the time. It was on a four point O scale. You need to score above a 3.5.”
Google Analytics' launch exhausted server capacity and slowed down Google's infrastructure
“So we had literally crashed Google, and we had slowed Google down and sort of broken Google by launching Google Analytics.”
Y Combinator classes were only 10 to 15 companies in 2006
“When I started 10 years ago, Google and Facebook were still buying a lot of small companies. YC classes were only 10, 15 companies.”
Google acquired Invite Media for $81 million
“Before Flatiron, Zatco founded Invite Media, acquired by Google for eighty-one million dollars.”
Twitter Acquired Crashlytics for Nine Figures Before Selling to Google
“Prior to Digits, Wayne and Jeff co-founded Crashlytics, which was acquired by Twitter for a nine-figure sum in January, and then acquired from Twitter by Google in 2017.”
Gmail grew to 200 million users during Todd Jackson's tenure
“And we grew Gmail to over two hundred million users during my time there.”