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product on 18 shows · 10 statements across 9 episodes · said 126 times in 51 episodes since 2013
Acquired 54 
All-In 14 
the a16z Podcast 9 
Latent Space 8 
20VC 7 
Startups For the Rest of Us 5 
the Knowledge Project 5 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 4 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 4 
the MAD Podcast 3 
TBPN 3 
Another Podcast 2 
Lenny's Podcast 2 
Big Technology 2 
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2026 11 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Making $$$ with OpenClaw
- Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
- The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope?
- The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
- The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026
- Snowflake vs Databricks: The AI Data War | CEO of $SNOW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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2025 35 mentions in 14 episodes 3 per episode
- Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- Inside the White House Tech Dinner, Weak Jobs Report, Tariffs Court Challenge, Google Wins Antitrust
- Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- The Future of Email: Superhuman CTO on Your Inbox As the Real AI Agent (Not ChatGPT) — Loïc Houssier
- ⚡️ The State of AI Engineer Hiring: Cheating, AI Adoption,Junior Devs — Vivek Ravisankar, HackerRank
- The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI
- Perplexity's Offer to Buy Google Chrome for $34.5 BILLION Explained
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2024 13 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- Break up Google, Starbucks CEO out, Kamala’s price controls, Boeing disaster, Kursk offensive
- Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more
- Mike Schroepfer: Former Meta CTO on "Why The Best Leaders are Like Music Conductors" | E1158 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Yen Carry Trade, Recession odds grow, Buffett cash pile, Google ruled monopoly, Kamala picks Walz
- Meta's scorched earth approach to AI, Tesla's future, TikTok bill, FTC bans noncompetes, wealth tax
- Episode 699 | How to Build Elegant, Scalable Software Products wi...
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2023 11 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- E116: Toxic out-of-control trains, regulators, and AI
- Episode 643 | Feature Flags, Impostor Syndrome, and More Listener...
- Meta CMO Alex Schultz: Competing Against TikTok & Snap; Why Reels Failed at First | E985 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Episode 691 | Freemium, High-touch vs. Low-touch, Selling as an I...
- Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)
- How a Cookie Invented in 94 Became the Monster Behind Your Data
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2022 33 mentions in 2 episodes 17 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2019 10 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen
- Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
- 20VC: Webflow's Vlad Magdalin on The Journey To Breakeven and Raising A Monster $72m Series A, The Single Most Important Question To Ask When Determining Which Investor To Select & The Challenges of Founders Angel Investing
- Gabriel Weinberg: Practical Steps to Safeguard Your Data and Identity Online
- a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System
- a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
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2018 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator
- 20VC: Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook on The Commonalities of The Truly Great CEOs, How To Hire The Very Best Execs, Why Cash is A Defensible Moat Today & The Pros and Cons of M&A and IPOs
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2017 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2013 1 mention in 1 episode
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10 statements about Firefox, every show
Mozilla Firefox shipped 423 bug fixes in April 2026, up from 31
“In April, 2026, Firefox shipped 423 bug fixes compared to just 31 a year earlier.”
Willison: Anthropic found and responsibly disclosed 100 vulnerabilities to Mozilla
“I think Firefox just a few days ago, maybe last week said that they'd, they'd done a release, which was assisted by Anthropic. Anthropic had Discovered a hundred like potential vulnerabilities in Firefox and responsibly reported them to Mozilla who then fixed …”
Google Was Firefox's Main Code Contributor Before Launching Chrome
“And then the team that is now the Chrome team believe, and I, my, I don't know this for a fact, but I'm pretty sure Google was the main contributor to Firefox for a long time in terms of code.”
Google treats Chrome extensions as a loss leader, says Josh Miller
“They view it as a loss leader. They built Chrome extensions just so they could, you know, have parity with Firefox. They don't want you making extensions because you have some immersive extension experience. That's not something that you can index in Google an…”
Gilbert: Chrome Has Steadily Reduced Firefox's Market Share to Around 3%
“Firefox did really, really well and gained a huge market share, and then when Chrome launched, it's been slowly etched away every year by Chrome now, and it's down around something like three percent.”
Eich: Apple Safari beat Firefox on privacy by blocking third-party cookies
“The very first Safari had private windows. It had a third party cookie blocker. Neither of these things were in Firefox at the time. Private windows came in quickly. We never shipped a third party cookie blocker in my time there.”
Evans: Banning search default payments would eliminate Firefox's business model
“They say that you're not allowed to pay third-party browsers to be the default search engine, but that's Firefox's whole business model, so if they don't do that, Firefox goes away.”
Grant: Call center workers using Chrome or Firefox stay 15% longer
“Basically what he found was Chrome and Firefox users were on average getting in call center jobs to customer satisfaction rates in 90 days that took Internet Explorer and Safari users a 120 days to reach. And the Chrome and Firefox users also stuck around 15% …”
Gil: Google spent hundreds of millions yearly on Firefox and Adobe distribution
“And so examples where people were very aggressive about distribution with things like Google, where they were spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on things like Firefox, having Google prominently displayed on its homepage. They literally paid for, …”
Elad Gil: Google Spent Hundreds of Millions Buying Firefox Homepage and Toolbars
“Google was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on To acquire customers via things like toolbar distribution. They bought the homepage of Firefox for many years. They basically did whatever they could to push distribution as hard as possible.”