Google Chrome

“Trying to go against Chrome is going to be really, really tough because Google does have the talent to build this into their product. They will, they already have Gemini baked in to some extent.”

“I signed in with my OpenAI account, obviously, and then I started using it like I would have used ChatGPT in my Google Chrome browser, and it was hallucinating way more. It didn't have like a lot of memory stored about all the things I had talked to it about. …”

“My prediction is that Atlas, in its current form, might be 1.1 times better than Chrome. And that will not be enough to get large scale consumer adoption.”

“And I know Chrome is working on it, so it's coming if you're a Chrome user.”

“So what we built actually was a feature that exists today on iOS which is called inactive tabs. So inactive tabs is that ability where you can actually this happened automatically where all tabs longer than 21 day that was not, that should actually, or opened …”

“By 2012, so four years after launch, Chrome and Internet Explorer are now tied for market share with about 30% each.”

“I would put the odds of this deal happening closer to zero percent than one percent.”

“It's like perplexity has probably like millions of users, but it's just gonna take Decades, even at reasonable growth rate to hit three billion.”

“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…”

“A little birdie just told me that they spoke to a number of bankers that have not heard of the perplexity deal”

“Like, you run a multiple on that, like, it's a two hundred billion dollar asset, like, or something in that range, like, it's a lot. It's not two billion.”

“I remember getting yelled at in the first time we went in to propose that we should do a browser. Cause obviously at the time Eric Schmidt One of my longtime mentors, who I just love, had been deeply embedded in the wars with Microsoft, and he was like, you kn…”

“We hired someone named Darren, who, as I mentioned, he co-created the first prototype of Chrome and then ran it for six teen years. I think, you know, hundreds of not thousands of people reported him. He joined the browser company as an IC.”

“Today, fast forward to today, you know, he's doing millions of dollars of revenue a year. His team is like, 50 people. The Chrome extension has two plus million users.”

“There's 1.6 billion iPhone users. Okay. 1.6 billion users, two million iPhone apps. In the store right now. Chrome users, three billion Chrome users, 200,000 plugins.”