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product on 19 shows · 9 statements across 9 episodes · said 94 times in 52 episodes since 2017
Big Technology 22 
the a16z Podcast 20 
20VC 8 
TBPN 6 
In Depth 5 
Lenny's Podcast 5 
All-In 4 
Innovators & Investors 3 
We Live to Build 3 
Latent Space 3 
the Neon Show 3 
Top Founders 3 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 2 
No Priors 2 
Acquired 1 
Another Podcast 1 
BG2 Pod 1 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 1 
Capital Allocators 1
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Big Technology 22the a16z Podcast 2020VC 8TBPN 6In Depth 5Lenny's Podcast 5All-In 4Top Founders 311 more shows
2026 9 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- S2 Ep10: How to Learn with the New Rules of AI ft. Peeyush Ranjan
- WWDC Reactions, Claude Fable 5 Debuts, McAfee Eyes ESPN Mega Deal | Diet TBPN
- Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI
- Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
- Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño
- Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
- Mistral: Voxtral TTS, Forge, Leanstral, & Mistral 4 — w/ Pavan Kumar Reddy & Guillaume Lample
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2025 21 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
- Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories
- Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
- Inside Google's Generative AI Reinvention — With Nick Fox and Liz Reid
- What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations — With M.G. Siegler
- $200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
- How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
- Why is everyone cloning Deep Research?
- Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
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2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2023 27 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
- Why Google Never Shipped LaMDA Its ChatGPT Predecessor
- The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI | Jack Krawczyk (Google)
- Google’s Weird Year + Neeva Goes to Snowflake — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
- E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
- Crafting a compelling product vision | Ebi Atawodi (YouTube, Netflix, Uber)
- The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Bundling/Unbundling AI
- No Priors Ep. 29 | With Inceptive CEO Jakob Uszkoreit
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2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- How Amazon Reinvents with Artificial Intelligence
- 20 Product: Robinhood CPO on The 3 Stages of Product Management, How to Structure and Execute Great Product Reviews, The Secret to Building a World-Class Hiring Funnel in Product Team Building with Aparna Chennapragada
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2021 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- Power of Storytelling ft. Roshan Abbas, Investor | Entrepreneur | Actor | Director | Producer
- 20VC: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on His Biggest Lessons Building and Growing Blackberry, The Right Way to View Competition and Innovation Cycles & How To Make The Transition From COO To CEO Most Effectively
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2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2019 20 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
- a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- a16z Podcast | Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
- a16z Podcast | Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice
- a16z Podcast | Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR
- a16z Podcast | Apple Watch -- Looking for New Things Done in New Ways
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2018 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Behind The Scenes of a $Bn IPO Process, What Startups Can Learn From Teddy Roosevelt's "Five Minute Meetings" and What John Lennon Teaches Founders About Storytelling with Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Yext
- Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- 20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai
- 1164 Want Your Own Alexa, Without Amazon Influence? Mycroft Raises $8m For Opensource Voice Stack
- Josh Wolfe – Seeing the Lux (Capital Allocators, EP.65)
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2017 1 mention in 1 episode
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9 statements about Google Assistant, every show
Hays: Google Is Phasing Out Google Assistant on Android for Gemini
“Android users have had access to Google Assistant for a long time. That's getting phased out. It's just gonna be Gemini.”
Crivello: Bearish on consumer AI agents because consumers are time-rich and money-poor
“I am actually quite bearish for consumer agents. I think, like, consumers are time rich and money poor, right? It's like, they don't want to trade time for money like that, which is why I think, like, Google Assistant and Alexa, like, they've been really failu…”
Google initially experimented with integrating Meena and LaMDA into Assistant
“When I first got to Google in 2020, We were experimenting with a technology that was then called MENA, one of the first language models that was out available in the market. MENA became Lambda, and what we were experimenting with was, how do we get this very c…”
Nemade: BERT release triggered Google-wide rush to adopt transformers
“I think one thing that I remember specifically was the Transformers paper paper came out, but I think it started making a lot of noise when BERT was out. Like when people started seeing what BERT could essentially do. That was kind of Like a switch that went o…”
Ramaswamy: Generative AI surpasses voice assistants by synthesizing multi-page summaries
“The power of generative AI now, I think, comes from the fact that you can understand multiple pages, and you can write a fluid answer for way more queries than what the Assistant could ever do. Remember, with the Assistant, whether it's on Alexa or on Google p…”
AI Assistants With a Single Neutral Corporate Persona End Up Boring
“Like if you're like such a public, you know, trying to present like one public persona that everyone likes, you're going to end up just being boring essentially. And people just don't want boring. You know, people want like the, you know want to interact with …”
Sonos is suing Google while actively maintaining product partnerships with them
“We're suing Google right now. But at the same time, we still work with them on YouTube Music Service, on Google Assistant, and some of these other areas”
Sinofsky: Voice assistant divergence will end easy dual-platform hardware integration
“Google is going to have a different set of ideas for what you can do with this device than Amazon does. And once the platforms start diverging, the idea of it being five lines of code and you get both for sort of for free is going to really change.”