Chromium
product on 12 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes · said 53 times in 26 episodes since 2020
Latent Space 17 
Acquired 16 
TBPN 7 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 3 
Lenny's Podcast 2 
Big Technology 2 
In Depth 1 
the Knowledge Project 1 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 1 
Top Founders 1 
All-In 1 
20VC 1
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Latent Space 17Acquired 16TBPN 7the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 3Lenny's Podcast 2Big Technology 2the Knowledge Project 1Top Founders 14 more shows
2026 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2025 24 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
- Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- Browserbase: Browser Infrastructure For Your AI Agents
- Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
- ⚡️ The State of AI Engineer Hiring: Cheating, AI Adoption,Junior Devs — Vivek Ravisankar, HackerRank
- OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
- Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
- Perplexity's Offer to Buy Google Chrome for $34.5 BILLION Explained
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 5 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- OpenAI Builds A Browser, Microsoft Copilot’s Struggles, Jaguar Rebrand
- Do this to build a $100k/mo chrome extension using AI (Cursor AI, Claude)
- Truly Serverless Infra for AI Engineers - with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal
- The AI-First Graphics Editor - with Suhail Doshi of Playground AI
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2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 10 mentions in 1 episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
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5 statements about Chromium, every show
Rieseberg: Desktop apps need embedded Chromium because OS WebViews are inadequate
“The reason to go with your own embedded rendering engine is because, and this is still true in 20, 26, the operating system rendering engines are not that good. They're just not that good. Both Microsoft and Apple are trying to move away from that. They so far…”
Truell: Cursor switched to forking VS Code to focus on AI features
“We thought that, you know, VS Code had been developed over the course of 12 years, was one of the earliest TypeScript projects had lots of people on it. Thought, oh yeah, of course, you can kind of spin something up that's just equivalent for the world in, in …”
Coogan: Perplexity offered to keep Google as Chrome's default search engine
“Perplexity told Sundar Pichai as part of the proposed acquisition, it would maintain and support Chromium, the open source project that supports Chrome and other browsers. It also said it would continue placing Google as the default search engine within Chrome…”
Simons: Games and IDEs Are Ultimate Stress Tests for Platform Bugs
“The second one are IDEs, because you're talking about actually the virtualizing the actual runtime environment you are in to actually build apps on top of it, which requires sophisticated capabilities, a lot, you know, access to, you know, a good amount of com…”
Eich: Using Electron for Brave was a mistake due to sandboxing issues
“Using Electron was a mistake. It wasn't designed for a browser. It turned off the sandbox. That was horrifying to discover, and it's kind of bloated and replaced a lot of middleware files in the Chromium code that Google was Breaking through internal API shift…”