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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Google Maps comes up on Acquired, the Startup Ideas Podcast, the a16z Podcast, Big Technology, 20VC
Why A 25-Year-Old Should Build A Hotel, Not An App | MakeMyTrip x Taj | WTF is Travel?
- ▶ 1:45:20 Siddharth Gupta Relying on Google Maps, walking a street, having a pavement to walk on, um, not worrying about getting cheated by a service provider, by an experienced provider, the safety of some of these establishments, et cetera.
Getting Laid Off Led Him to Buy the Company That Hired Him
- ▶ 28:11 Clayton Critchard I haven't really had them very much before, to be honest, like even in my career and other places, um, they generally do a pretty good job, I think, of verifying, but if there is a fake review that pops up, uh, reaching out to the platform…
How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 53:36 Cliff Weitzman I think he started Google Maps, then he was CTO of Meta, then he was co-CEO of Salesforce, he's on the board of OpenAI, and now he founded Sierra.
Nikesh Arora: $300B, 40 Acquisitions, Still Paranoid
- ▶ 48:24 Nikesh Arora There's, Google Maps doesn't make as much money, but it was a product, you know.
Building the Intelligence Engine for Finance and National Security with Shaun Modi of Capitol AI
- ▶ 13:11 Shaun Modi Uh, and then joined Motorola as an industrial designer, designing rugged mobile devices for companies like FedEx, UPS, the army, and then was recruited to Google and moved out to California and worked on search maps.
Cloudflare will make 1000+ AI millionaires
- ▶ 11:02 Greg Isenberg You know, it's sitting in Google maps.
Marketing Agents Masterclass (GROW your startup)
- ▶ 43:08 Cody Schneider I'll literally walk you through how can you send direct mail at scale by scraping Google maps, you name it.
How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn
- ▶ 42:36 unnamed speaker If you're Google, maybe in Google maps or Gmail, right?
Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang
- ▶ 31:46 Stanley Tang Uh, which again, sounds kind of silly, but when you punch in someone's address on Google Maps, like the GPS pin, it's like, especially if you're going to an apartment complex, it's never kind of, I mean, I don't, I mean, it's not like, 2 times in the scene
Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble
- ▶ 41:12 Alex Kantrowitz Google has multiple layers of stakeholders involved in preparing models for release, working to weave AI across a vast product portfolio, including Search, Maps, and YouTube, which can cause delays.
And How Matic Won By Choosing the Most Boring Market in Robotics with Founders Mehul and Navneet
- ▶ 0:23 Mehul Nariyawala One is that it has Google Maps, and second one is GPS.
- ▶ 14:49 Mehul Nariyawala One is that it has Google maps.
OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta’s AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown
- ▶ 55:49 Ranjan Roy Then I can in the New York City area where I've been for ever, or especially like I can't get to JFK without a Google map because I'm just so dependent on, ah, on maps.
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:54:59 Ben Gilbert So I was looking at Google Maps, planning our visit, David, and it looks weird.
How Anjali Sardana Built a $200M Company in 1 Year
- ▶ 13:00 Anjali Sardana And then there is how to use Google Maps, how to use the Pronto app, how to use, you know, your phone, all of that.
Why the AI Boom Is Just Getting Started · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:04:55 Alex Sacerdote Wrote Google Maps.
Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI
- ▶ 26:04 Alex Kantrowitz Because you still have this centralized division working with the product areas within Google, like Gmail and maps and search.
The IPO Comeback: Why Tech Giants Are Finally Going Public | All-In Liquidity IPO Panel
- ▶ 10:45 Will Marshall So think of it like the Google, uh, satellite lay on Google maps.
Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank
- ▶ 14:46 Ranjan Roy Certainly Google has a more AI native feel the way even ask questions in maps.
- ▶ 43:24 Ranjan Roy Um, I got to say though, like in maps, the ask maps feature has started to become more part of my life. 3 times in the scene
S2 Ep10: How to Learn with the New Rules of AI ft. Peeyush Ranjan
- ▶ 58:11 Peeyush Ranjan Before a particular point, all maps which you saw, whether you saw in MapQuest or Google Maps and all that, they were all 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:05 Abhay Tandon A friend of mine is at the Google Maps team in Singapore, a schoolmate of mine. 5 times in the scene
Swatch & AP Collab, Cerebras Boosts IPO Price, Trump to Visit China | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 28:43 John Coogan Like, starting with a Google search and ending up, like, creating a business on Google Maps for your exact address under the name, what is in energy drinks?
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:48:46 Cliff Weitzman Um, but it was really hard, and if you don't have a phone, you don't have Google Maps.
Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
- ▶ 10:03 M.G. Siegler Um, but you could also say like, yeah, they're, they're making, um, a bet that they can partner on it much like they've done, uh, you know, with things like Google maps, which ends up being an interesting analogy to that, right?
Making $$ with AI Agents
Demis Hassabis: Agents, AGI & The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:00 Demis Hassabis And now increasingly every single product at Google has, you know, maps and YouTube and so on has,
The $15B Physical AI Company: Simulation, Autonomy OS, Neural Sim, & 1K Engineers—Applied Intuition
- ▶ 7:08 Qasar Younis Well, it's, it's, I mean, I think it's just like what, and, and, and I mean, we worked on maps and stuff, Google maps, consumer products are extremely difficult for a lot of different reasons.
Inside Google’s massive AI capex (live)
- ▶ 9:15 Amin Vahdat In general, for let's say maps or search or ads, that's not true.
The economics and trends of the restaurant industry, with Tony Xu of DoorDash
AI Is Coming for Your Memes, Crypto’s Quantum Clock, Axios Hack| Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:14 John Coogan It's like locking every door in your house, installing cameras, hiring armed guards, then accidentally uploading your floor plans to Google maps.
The Axios Supply Chain Attack Explained
- ▶ 15:23 unnamed speaker Um, it's like locking every door in your house, installing cameras, hiring armed guards, then accidentally uploading your floor plans to Google Maps.
AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay
- ▶ 22:40 Ranjan Roy It's kind of like all relatively baked in the product when you're going to do a search on Google maps now. 2 times in the scene
Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
- ▶ 0:57 Shawn Wang Where, like, there's a lot of legendary programmers that have come out of it, like, uh, Bjorn Stolstrup, Rasmus Lerdorf, Anders Heilsberg, and the V-A team, and Google Maps team.
Bret Taylor of Sierra on AI agents, outcome-based pricing, and the OpenAI board
- ▶ 0:04 John Collison He was one of the creators of Google Maps, invented the like button, was co-CEO of Salesforce.
Claude Code built me a $273/Day online directory
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:54 Sebastian Siemiatkowski But I was still looking there in Google Maps.
Going From Blobs to Billions. Clay's Co-Founder Breaks Down Inbound, Outbound, and AI-Powered Sales.
- ▶ 25:17 Varun Anand So for that, what I would recommend is, um, actually you can use Google Maps or Open Mart to get a lot of, of the small health insurance brokerages, um,
- ▶ 26:40 Varun Anand They want to know who their customers are, so they use Google Maps to get satellite images, AI to analyze the images, to determine, like, what color the trash cans are outside people's houses to look and see if it's a very unique data…
He Built The Revenue Engines for Google, Facebook & Square · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:11:31 Gokul Rajaram My kids have discovered crazy when you go traveling, crazy restaurants on TikTok that Google Maps would not really show or Yelp doesn't show, etc.
Is AI Killing Software? — With Bret Taylor, OpenAI's board chair and CEO of Sierra
- ▶ 22:01 Alex Kantrowitz You're the Facebook CTO as the company moved to mobile and you built Google maps.
- ▶ 58:37 Bret Taylor When we were making everything from Google Maps to App Engine, which became Google Cloud,
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon: Future Of AI Devices, AI Fashion, Blending Reality and Computing
- ▶ 23:11 Cristiano Amon I think, uh, MapQuest wasn't the main map, you know, eventually it was Google Maps.
Ashby Monk – Total Portfolio Approach and the Future of Asset Owners (EP.480)
- ▶ 27:39 Ashby Monk We can layer, just like Google Maps does, the different risk factors. 2 times in the scene
TBPN Year in Review
- ▶ 14:37 John Coogan When I first saw this, I thought he was saying, like, AI will be able to get you directions, and I was like, but Google Maps can do that. 3 times in the scene
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 35:26 Benedict Evans So both of these, both of these can be true because there was a lot of like, it took time to realize how you would use Google Maps and then what you could do with Google and how you could use Instagram.
20VC: Inside Bending Spoons Acquisition Machine: Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo | How Evernote Evaluates Acquisitions and New Product Ideas | How Evernote Mastered Product Launches, User Retention and Monetisation with Federico Simionato
- ▶ 57:55 Federico Simionato One of my favorite products is Google Maps, just because of how useful it is every day, you know. 2 times in the scene
How his AI-first services company grew $0 to $40M ARR in one year. | Eric Foster, Founder of Tenex · PMF Show
- ▶ 20:26 Eric Foster They're on Google maps.
20Sales: John McMahon on How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Sales Reps | How Sales Changes in a World of AI | Sales Lessons from Snowflake and MongoDB | How to Create and Drive a Sales Process with Urgency
- ▶ 8:46 John McMahon So they think about like Google Maps is your sales process. 2 times in the scene
Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit
- ▶ 19:30 Alex Kantrowitz And Geo, which contains maps, and they would be the ones that would sort of control things at Google. 3 times in the scene
Nvidia Q3 Earnings, Travis Kalanick's New Startup, Google's Nano Banana Pro Reaction | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:43 unnamed speaker Um, here's one where someone took an, uh, a map, a Google map screenshot, and just turned it into, uh, an RPG style map, a San Francisco monster map.
Cloudflare Outage, iMessages in Gemini 3, 𝕏 Reactions to Gemini 3 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:04 John Coogan It's all just Google maps. 2 times in the scene
I Did Nothing For 2 Weeks. It Made Me Better At Everything.
- ▶ 37:16 Shaan Puri It's like, you know, you go on Google Maps, you gotta, like, zoom in, pinch to zoom three times to even see the little town that my dad grew up in.
The Founder Who Mastered Timing Ft Sachin Aggarwal | StackGen
- ▶ 47:45 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So basically the, the good example to give is, ah, once you are driving a car from A to B, the Google Maps gives you a path, different paths, let's say.
OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity
- ▶ 45:05 Alex Kantrowitz And in the background, it's like going to Google Maps. 3 times in the scene
Stablecoin special: Zach Abrams (Bridge) and Henri Stern (Privy)
- ▶ 1:03:58 John Collison You know, there were acquisitions that became Google Maps and separately Google Earth and, uh, you know, Google Docs and all this kind of stuff.
Google's First $100B Quarter Reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:34 unnamed speaker They have Google Cloud, they have Waymo, they have Maps, Gmail, Chrome, DeepMind, Google AI, like it's a stack lineup.
- ▶ 4:59 unnamed speaker Let's create a mapping product, Google Maps.
- ▶ 15:06 unnamed speaker Apple Maps was this kind of disastrous launch where it really didn't work as well, anywhere near Google Maps, but eventually they turned it around, and Apple Maps became a really great product for the iPhone.
Vercel's CEO Shares 5 AI Startup Ideas So Good You’ll Quit Your Job
- ▶ 36:20 Guillermo Rauch So it's like more of a Google maps thing.
#2282 Neil Patel’s insanely powerful AI sales machine
- ▶ 42:08 unnamed speaker So let's say you want to scrape Google maps. 3 times in the scene
Are AI Agents Further Away Than We Think? | Dropbox CEO Drew Houston Joins TBPN
- ▶ 3:23 Drew Houston So, for example, like, there's like billions of users of Google Maps today.
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 28:34 Keith Rabois Um, and then, you know, when did, when did they do maps? 2 times in the scene
How to build a $16B car company with RJ Scaringe, founder of Rivian
- ▶ 28:05 John Collison And then you guys launch Google Maps, and it's awesome.
Acquired Podcast Hosts Break Down Google’s $1 Trillion Mistake
- ▶ 0:05 David Rosenthal Microsoft has always been the existential threat, the goal of, like, we're going to become the next Microsoft, we're going to dominate them, we're going to create Gmail, and Docs, and Maps, and like everything Microsoft does, we're going…
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 18:30 David Rosenthal This is the era of all the great, great products coming out of Google that we've talked about, you know, Maps and Gmail and Docs and all the wonderful things that Chrome and Android are going to come later.
- ▶ 19:05 David Rosenthal And so one of those products was Google Translate, you know, not the same level of user base or perhaps impact on the world as Gmail or Maps or whatnot, but still a magical, magical product.
- ▶ 27:22 David Rosenthal One of the first things he does over the next set of months is a project called Ground Truth for Google Maps.
- ▶ 27:29 Ben Gilbert Which is essentially Google Maps.
- ▶ 27:31 David Rosenthal It is essentially Google Maps.
- ▶ 27:32 David Rosenthal So before Ground Truth, Google Maps existed as a product, but they had to get all the mapping data from a company called Tele Atlas.
- ▶ 3:40:46 David Rosenthal Everything that we talked about in part two, the alphabet episode, all of the other products within Google, Gmail, Maps, Docs, Chrome, Android,
From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo
- ▶ 30:46 Julie Zhuo If you click the maps tab, we can measure clicks today.
My AI agents scrape Google Maps to make $$ in BORING businesses
- ▶ 0:30 Greg Isenberg And he does so by using these NNN workflows that scrapes Google maps data.
- ▶ 7:10 James (The Boring Marketer) You'll find this inside is like a community benefit, but, uh, what it's going to do is it's going to look at one of my favorite treasure troves for market intelligence and opportunity identification, and that's Google maps.
- ▶ 8:08 James (The Boring Marketer) So we're going to go out and scrape Google maps.
- ▶ 20:15 James (The Boring Marketer) And Google Maps is like a great data source, uh, to go and look at. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:14 Greg Isenberg Cause I, cause kind of what you're saying is like, all right, so I'm going to, I'm going to use Google maps, which by the way, I've never even thought of using Google maps as the data source, but makes complete sense. 2 times in the scene
Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global
- ▶ 25:01 Nirav Tolia He had gone to Google, and was one of the early engineers on Google Maps, and so, but he had been someone that we had known, Sarah and I had known, and had worked with for many, many years prior to him leaving Google.
Inside Google DeepMind: AGI, Robotics, & World Models Explained - Demis Hassabis
- ▶ 10:02 Demis Hassabis You'll be able to recommend things to you, uh, as you're walking the streets or we can embed it into Google maps.
Booz Allen CTO: AI in Government, Autonomous Driving, Quantum's Promise
- ▶ 13:25 Alex Kantrowitz That is a government developed technology that companies like Google have with a, I guess, a profit motive developed and put into Google maps.
Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:04:27 Molly O'Shea I had no idea, and then you showed me on, on Google Maps. 2 times in the scene
ElevenLabs CEO/Co-Founder, Mati Staniszewski:The Untold Story of Europe’s Fastest Growing AI Startup · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:39 Mati Staniszewski I am a huge user of, of Google, Google Maps and love Google Maps. 2 times in the scene
#2278 How to build a $15M/year AI company.
- ▶ 6:54 Pavel Dolezal We actually had, you know, like, online maps in 99, you know, like, Google Maps was 2004.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:15 Ben Gilbert Maps that were far superior to the current state of the art.
- ▶ 5:47 David Rosenthal Gmail, Maps, the forthcoming Google Docs.
- ▶ 29:43 David Rosenthal Like they'll do with maps, like they'll do with docs, like they'll do with YouTube that we're about to talk about.
- ▶ 32:26 David Rosenthal So the next big web apps following Gmail were maps, docs, and spreadsheets.
- ▶ 32:45 David Rosenthal So, first maps.
- ▶ 32:47 David Rosenthal We actually did a whole acquired episode back in the day just about Google Maps.
- ▶ 34:13 Ben Gilbert And Maps is squarely in the middle of that.
- ▶ 34:30 David Rosenthal They weren't what you think of as Google Maps today.
- ▶ 36:03 David Rosenthal So Google ends up buying where to, that becomes the core of Google Maps.
- ▶ 36:22 David Rosenthal Ultimately, everything that Google Earth was building would get folded back into Maps later.
- ▶ 36:26 Ben Gilbert I thought that, and just last night, I realized you can still go to earth.google.com and get a completely different three-d experience than Google Maps.
- ▶ 36:39 David Rosenthal Oh, so it is a web app, but it's separate than Maps.
- ▶ 37:16 David Rosenthal Back to Google Maps and where to.
- ▶ 37:19 David Rosenthal February, 2005, Google Maps launches.
- ▶ 37:28 Ben Gilbert Do you want to know my favorite Easter egg for the first day launch of Google Maps?
- ▶ 37:33 Ben Gilbert When you loaded up maps.google.com, do you know what visually you saw?
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