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Rosenthal: Microsoft pursued Facebook in 2007 after missing search to Google
“Microsoft, perhaps obvious now in retrospect to everybody, really just wants to buy the company. But Mark's, of course, not gonna do that after the whole Yahoo experience, etc. Microsoft is also happy, though, to just keep the partnership going and expand it, …”
Rosenthal: YouTube Pays 55% on Long-Form and 45% on Shorts to Creators
“Google does not report today, but here is what is unique about YouTube versus every other platform is they pay out 55% of revenue on long form and 45% on shorts directly to creators.”
Ilya Sutskever left Google in 2015 to co-found OpenAI
“So after the dinner, Ilya leaves Google and signs up to become, as we said, co-founder and chief scientist of a new independent AI non-profit research lab backed by Elon and Sam. OpenAI.”
Google built TPUs to offset compute costs while still buying Nvidia hardware
“Even Google at this point in time, this is when they start building their own chips, TPUs, because, you know, they're still buying tons of hardware from NVIDIA, but they're also starting to source their own here.”
Gilbert: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google hold 40%, 22%, and 10% cloud share
“Amazon's got 35, maybe 40%. Microsoft's got 20 to 22%. Google's somewhere around 10%.”
Ram Shriram wrote Google's first $250,000 check and joined its board
“He invests the first 250,000 dollars in Google, and he joins the board of Google.”
Google's Series A with Kleiner and Sequoia was valued at $100M post-money
“The Series A that would happen shortly thereafter of Google famously split between John Dora Kleiner and Mike Moritz at Sequoia was at a hundred million dollar post-money valuation, which was insane for the Point in time.”
Gerstner: Google desktop search turned negative year-over-year in late 2012
“Google's desktop search, I think, didn't go negative
Until 2012.
Maybe the fall of 2012.
That's when there were fewer people searching on desktop, you know, on a year-over-year basis because people were switching to their mobile devices, okay?”
Rosenthal: Acquired Is Recording at Google's Historic First Office
“This is Google's first office right here. They gave it to us for the day.”
Google Network Yields Just $9 Billion Gross Profit Versus Core's $175 Billion
“Google Network, they pay out 70%, and they only made thirty billion. So if you start thinking about, like, gross profit, it's comparing nine billion dollars to a hundred and seventy-five-ish billion dollars.”
Sergey Brin designed Google's first logo in open-source program GIMP
“So Sergei designs the homepage and makes the first logo using the open source drawing program GIMP.”
Google's iconic mission statement dates back to its first 1999 press release
“And it's this culture that comes up with a mission statement to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. I mean, this was in 1999 in their very first press release after the financing. That has been the mission statement.”
Gilbert: Sundar Pichai joined Google in 2004 to lead Toolbar team
“In 2004, a new PM is hired by Google. They come in and they take over this application's client team that includes Google toolbar. That PM is Sundar Pichai.”