Google, every mention
283 scenes (2025), the whole family · ← back to Google
tap a year for its mentions
every year 2025 anyone Benedict Evans 710Chris Dixon 126Marc Andreessen 105Alex Rampell 105Kyle Russell 100Steven Sinofsky 88Ben Horowitz 85Michael Copeland 77Sonal Chokshi 72Balaji Srinivasan 68
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Google comes up
AI in 2026: 3 Predictions For What’s To Come (a16z Big Ideas)
- ▶ 5:49 Oliver Hsu I think just today, DeepMind announced a partnership with the UK government, um, to collaborate on areas of scientific discovery.
Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?
- ▶ 0:06 unnamed speaker When you open Gemini, it has a pop-up that says, we got a nano banana.
- ▶ 0:39 Olivia Moore This was arguably the year that we saw the big model providers, OpenAI and Google, most out of everyone, make a major push of their own into consumer, both in terms of new models they release, but also in terms of new products, features,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:03 Justine Moore And then for Google, uh, it's VO, VO three and VO 3.1. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:34 Justine Moore Um, the exception there is obviously Sora as a standalone video app, whereas Google tended to launch more things as standalone products, so they did ship a lot through like Google AI Studio, um, and Google Labs, and
- ▶ 8:00 unnamed speaker OpenAI, Google, which to me falls under productivity category. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:57 Olivia Moore The interesting thing about Gemini to me is, like, hypothetically, they benefit from the massive Google distribution advantage. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:12 Olivia Moore They launched a little Gemini widget within Chrome recently that encourages you to use it.
- ▶ 18:54 Justine Moore And I, over 50% of it is now Sora, whereas before it was like all VO and some cling.
- ▶ 32:25 Olivia Moore Google has had a long tail, like Stitch, Gems, Opal, Doppel, Tons. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:49 Justine Moore So this is like the Google labs product where you put in the URL of your business and it has an agent go to the website, pull all of the product and brand photos, summarize what it thinks your brands
- ▶ 37:22 Justine Moore Um, and very cool product would be hard to become a giant standalone product within Google, I think.
- ▶ 40:06 Olivia Moore Also, the slides are flexible sizes, so you're no longer, like, editing every little pixel in your Google Slides to get it to fit into one, which is great.
How AI Agents Will Transform in 2026 (a16z Big Ideas)
- ▶ 5:06 Stephanie Deng You want to be one of the first search results back from Google.
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 1:28 Benedict Evans We've had the Google one and the Microsoft one.
- ▶ 5:44 Erik Torenberg Let's compare back to previous platform chefs because some people, you know, look at, you know, some of the internet and say, Hey, there were net new trillion dollar companies, you know, Facebook and Google, uh, that were created from it… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:01 Benedict Evans Like Google needed like a separate blog search.
- ▶ 18:21 Benedict Evans If you're, you're Google or Meta or Amazon, and you're going to be able to use them to build a bunch more stuff.
- ▶ 20:59 Benedict Evans And so you get people in Silicon Valley who are like, you know, I spend all my day time in ChatGPT, I don't use Google anymore, you know, I've replaced my CRM with this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:06 Benedict Evans The fun thing is you can see this around Google because Google had this whole idea that everything would just be a Google query and Google would work out what the query was. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:12 Benedict Evans You know, now you want to use those Google flights is not a Google query.
- ▶ 35:26 Benedict Evans So both of these, both of these can be true because there was a lot of like, it took time to realize how you would use Google Maps and then what you could do with Google and how you could use Instagram. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:26 Benedict Evans So both of these, both of these can be true because there was a lot of like, it took time to realize how you would use Google Maps and then what you could do with Google and how you could use Instagram.
- ▶ 41:20 Benedict Evans Which is kind of what happened with Chrome, for example. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:39 Benedict Evans Well, this kind of comes back to your point about sustaining advantage, and we, we talked about Google. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:02 Benedict Evans But basically, for Google search, Google search is search, and the web search is just means more people doing more search more, more of the time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:51 Benedict Evans A bunch of more product strategy questions as you see real consumer adoption and open AI and Google building stuff in different directions, Amazon going in different directions, Apple trying and obviously failing and then then trying again… 2 times in the scene
The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- ▶ 32:44 Jonathan Swanson And I went to Google, you type in Thumbtack, and nothing shows up, and we basically received the death penalty from Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:33 Erik Torenberg What have you learned in your extensive founder career about, uh, managing your own psychology, dealing with stress, dealing with the cognitive dissonance of, you know, having to present externally, like, things are amazing even when, you…
The Chip That Could Unlock AGI.
- ▶ 0:27 Matt Bornstein NVIDIA, TSMC, Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:10 Matt Bornstein Put unconventional in the context of the broader industry for me, like Nvidia, TSMC, Google, are, are these, um, you know, potential allies for unconventional? 4 times in the scene
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- ▶ 21:31 Erik Torenberg One of the questions for defensibility in, in web two companies was, Hey, would Google, you know, would those, will they some someday build this or Facebook or name your incumbent?
- ▶ 23:55 Alex Rampell But, you know, a feature is, like, I've built a Chrome plug-in. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:43 unnamed speaker And I think, you know, you saw today with, you know, Google's, uh, anti-gravity launch, like the IDE is going to be one of those things.
The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
- ▶ 1:17 Alex Rampell Um, and Josh was at Google and he was like, yeah, there's this guy, Russ Fraden. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:59 Russ Fraden Obviously Google and Facebook are two of the most amazing companies ever built, but if it wasn't for all of that infrastructure, their revenue just wouldn't have grown as quickly.
- ▶ 26:17 Russ Fraden Google at some point fought it and then actually bought Urchin and built Google Analytics, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:17 Russ Fraden Google at some point fought it and then actually bought Urchin and built Google Analytics, right?
- ▶ 36:50 Russ Fraden You can find old interviews of Larry Page talking about his plan for how Google
How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning
- ▶ 36:54 Sherman Wu No, Google has, uh, some of theirs. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:39 Martin Casado Like, um, most that have tried, like, it, it, it, it, it found it very clunky to do it, but, I mean, you and Google are the two kind of counter examples for this.
The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
- ▶ 5:54 Marc Andreessen I mean, among the companies you created turned out to be the company that created basically the Google search model.
- ▶ 40:06 Margit Wennmachers Remember back in the day, Diane Greene was ousted from Google for like a very innocent contract who'd look at pictures, I mean, satellites, right?
Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
- ▶ 3:19 Alex Rampell I like to say, especially in financial services, with that high bar to having a relationship, uh, you should probably just buy Google stock or Facebook stock versus investing in most companies because, like, that's where all the money goes. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:32 Vlad Tenev I mean, you can look at the Google trends, uh, and around the time A-sixteen Z made their seed investment, which I think was 2013, mid 20 13, nobody was really talking about fintech, right?
- ▶ 40:09 Alex Rampell It was like in the eighties, but you can just Google like,
- ▶ 1:02:46 Vlad Tenev I remember Google. 2 times in the scene
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
- ▶ 6:08 Ben Horowitz Yeah, I think the Google Maven project was kind of a watershed moment where, you know, people had to take sides, um, just kind of intellectually. 5 times in the scene
Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
- ▶ 3:06 Alex Rampell If you price it in Apple stock and Google stock, right?
- ▶ 33:10 Alex Rampell Remember like Larry Page had a rule at Google, which is like, we will not launch new products.
- ▶ 49:38 Alex Rampell Like Google makes a lot. 3 times in the scene
Grant Lee: Building Gamma’s AI Presentation Company to 100 Million Users
- ▶ 8:20 unnamed speaker Yeah, that's, that's fascinating, and I think, um, maybe just to pull on that thread a little bit, you know, hey, we're coming up against Microsoft, Google, the biggest tech juggernauts, um, in the world, uh, but on the flip side, right,…
- ▶ 11:04 Grant Lee And what I was using to sort of create presentations was, you know, Google slides.
Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
- ▶ 14:30 Michael Truell We have Databricks, Snowflake, we have, uh, we're on AWS GCP and Azure,
Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
- ▶ 33:26 Amjad Masad Uh, for example, ChatGPT was fundamentally counter-positioned against Google because, uh, Google had a business that, that was actually working. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:09 Amjad Masad Um, all its, uh, you know, workspace suite,
- ▶ 37:14 unnamed speaker And you were, Facebook super early, obviously, you know, Google, et cetera, was like,
- ▶ 40:17 Amjad Masad Uh, like I didn't expect that, like, you know, people only use Google. 2 times in the scene
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 23:51 Justine Moore Like I have the Google app.
- ▶ 34:35 Eugenia Kuyda For me, I got into it because I, uh, my friend worked at, um, Google DeepMind in 2012, and so he came to me to tell me about WordToVec and kind of the first technology to translate words into vectors and to be able to actually do something…
- ▶ 35:49 Eugenia Kuyda And then of course, in the first paper came out of Google by Cochlet that actually showed off the first deep learning, um, model applied to dialogue generation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:40 Eugenia Kuyda Um, and then of course, I think the next magical moment was the, um, Mina paper also out of Google with the first Transformer model.
Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
- ▶ 38:53 David Sacks I guess there's one promising one called, um, Reflection, which, um, was founded by former, um, you know, engineers from, uh, from Google DeepMind.
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on the State of AI
- ▶ 26:33 Erik Torenberg When Gavin was up here with DG, he said, ChatGPT was a Pearl Harbor moment for Google, the moment when the giant wakes up.
"Is there an AI bubble?” Gavin Baker and David George
- ▶ 3:01 David George And Google released a stat recently that they have seen a 150 X increase in the amount of tokens processed in the last 17 months. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:16 Gavin Baker It's Google. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:18 Gavin Baker And more specifically, it is Google, because Google owns the TPU chip. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:34 Gavin Baker And what Google, and Google's a problematic competitor, because they also own a company called DeepMind, and they have a product called Gemini.
- ▶ 11:01 Gavin Baker At this point in the internet boom, Google had not been founded. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:31 Gavin Baker Um, you know, Google is making it really easy if you're a customer of theirs to use your data and essentially make any SaaS app you want, and then your data isn't shared with anyone else.
- ▶ 19:25 David George So, obviously, Google was the portal to the internet, is kind of still is the portal to the internet, and the whole business model was predicated upon taking some intent and directing you to someone else's website where they would do stuff… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:11 Gavin Baker Two, I would just say, I think, um, the AI companies that have launched these AI browsers may come to regret it, because there's something called Chrome that has whatever it is, five billion users, and if you're Google, um, you know, you…
- ▶ 20:11 Gavin Baker Two, I would just say, I think, um, the AI companies that have launched these AI browsers may come to regret it, because there's something called Chrome that has whatever it is, five billion users, and if you're Google, um, you know, you… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:45 Gavin Baker Yeah, um, I think it goes, I think it is really, um, it's a fight between NVIDIA and, um, the Google TPU. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:05 Gavin Baker Because people overvalue systematically their ability once they've acquired a customer through Google to keep it as an organic customer. 3 times in the scene
Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z
- ▶ 8:16 Martin Casado So, Google barbed the first, or at least large scale, scale-out commodity servers in production for the web revolution, and now NVIDIA is bringing back the mainframe in a different form. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:51 Amin Vahdat In other words, whether you have, uh, GPUs or TPUs, you're not necessarily saying, hey, that's my GPU supercomputer. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:18 Amin Vahdat Bigtable, Spanner, GFS, Borg, Colossus, they were hand in hand co-designed with the hardware, the cluster scale-out architecture.
- ▶ 24:23 Amin Vahdat Uh, entire code base, and at Google it's a very, very large code base, uh, uh, sort of instruction set, agnostic, and including to, you know, future RISC-V or whatever else might come along. 3 times in the scene
Google DeepMind Developers: How Nano Banana Was Made
- ▶ 26:10 Justine Moore Like Google, like being in the Gemini app, like everyone in the world can use that versus like many other AI companies just think about like, we're only going for the professional creatives or we're only going for the consumer meat makers.
- ▶ 26:10 Justine Moore Like Google, like being in the Gemini app, like everyone in the world can use that versus like many other AI companies just think about like, we're only going for the professional creatives or we're only going for the consumer meat makers.
- ▶ 33:46 unnamed speaker And so, um, you know, you may have seen Flo from Josh's team in labs.
- ▶ 33:46 unnamed speaker And so, um, you know, you may have seen Flo from Josh's team in labs.
- ▶ 34:57 Justine Moore I don't know if you guys have been following the reception of Nano Banana in Japan, but, um, I'm sure you've had, it's, it's been insane, and it's so funny, like, I, now half of my XFeed is these really heavy Nano Banana users in Japan who…
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 32:44 Amjad Masad And, and, and I think that the lay person will be as good as a what a senior software engineer that works at Google is today.
- ▶ 49:58 Amjad Masad I think co-founder of DeepMind, Shane Lag, wrote, wrote a paper trying to define what AGI is.
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 2:13 Kevin Rose We've worked together at Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:15 Kevin Rose We worked together at Google Ventures and Google Corporate, and, uh, yeah, man, it's been, we've been good homies for many, many, many years. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:44 Kevin Rose It's, it was really cool when we first met, um, we both were, uh, I don't know how we ended up there and gone Google plus, but we were both on Google plus. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:44 Anish Acharya The top Gemini SKU Google Ultra is two 50. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:46 Kevin Rose They can put that in front of a lot of people, but like we saw with the Google plus side, just because you have the install base now, the eyeballs doesn't mean you're going to see success on the consumer side.
- ▶ 26:53 Kevin Rose Like when we, you and I were at GV and we did the Uber investment, how many startups did we say that the book, I'm the Uber for this.
- ▶ 44:50 Anish Acharya I find for navigation queries, Google is still better.
- ▶ 44:56 Anish Acharya You know, what are the implications of a new front door for the internet, which was Google search for 20 years.
How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 18:09 Augusto Marietti APIs, you could Google and go through the website, you wouldn't go through, go through the marketplace.
Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Labor
- ▶ 27:55 Reid Hoffman And it will be there, uh, courtesy open AI, uh, and, you know, VO because Google's model is also very good, but it needs the LMS for that.
- ▶ 27:55 Reid Hoffman And it will be there, uh, courtesy open AI, uh, and, you know, VO because Google's model is also very good, but it needs the LMS for that.
- ▶ 30:04 Alex Rampell Um, there, there's a rumor that the, uh, Navier-Stokes equation is going to be solved by DeepMind, which would be huge.
- ▶ 34:22 Reid Hoffman And so similarly, you had that kind of, you know, kind of nutty event from that Google engineer who said, I asked this earlier model, was it conscious? 2 times in the scene
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 13:17 Erik Torenberg The, what happens to Google? 6 times in the scene
page 1 of 3 · 100 scenes per page · newest episode first next →