Sergey Brin
3 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Marc Andreessen · said 17 times in 12 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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brought up most by Nathan Labenz (3), Marc Andreessen (2), Erik Torenberg (2), Dylan Patel (2), Balaji Srinivasan (2), Tim O'Reilly (1), Marty Chavez (1), Dmitry Dolgov (1)
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2025 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
- Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question
- AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
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2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2019 6 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- a16z Podcast | Platforming the Future
- a16z Podcast | Competing Against Luck
- a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- a16z Podcast | Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Internet Tools
- a16z Podcast | The Two Big Problems With Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
Everything said about Sergey Brin, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Andreessen: First-time founders should raise seed money before Series A
“If you're a first-time founder, first-time founder, it's almost always better to start with angels or with the early seed investors. It's, again, contrary to myth and archetype, it's very hard for the first-time founder to raise, raise a straight A round. It's…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
O'Reilly: Google's rejection of banner ads launched its search dominance
“Larry and Sergey were like, we hate that. We're not going to do that. And it was a moral rejection of that business model that eventually led them down the path of, we want ads to be as effective and as useful as search results. And that was the beginning of G…”
Aug 1, 2025
Balaji Srinivasan: Thiel, Graham, and Page would be jurists and professors earlier
“Peter Thiel would have been probably, they'd be more than 20 years earlier, probably would have been a Supreme Court jurist, right? Probably would have been like, you know, chief judge of the Supreme Court or something. Paul Graham would have been a professor.…”