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Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Sep 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:07 Anish Acharya So for me, it's easier to think of a new feature to add to my DJ streaming app or, um, you know, my sort of Google reader for X that I use than it is to kind of find a part of my life to automate.

Google's First $100B Quarter Reactions | Diet TBPN Oct 31, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:20 unnamed speaker There's a ton of gravestones in the graveyard from various note taking apps and chat apps and Google readers over there.

Substack Cofounder on AI Slop Content & the Decline of Social Media Sep 2, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:28 Andrew Chen We had, you know, Google Reader, RIP, and then you had kind of basically a phase, you know, Chris, when, when I met, um, uh, you know, your, your co-founder, Hamish, um, initially, and the, and the company was, was three people, um, this…

Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram) Jun 5, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:55 Mike Krieger Like it captures some of that Google reader joy of like content discovery of the deeper web.

Google's AI Comeback in Their Own Words - Logan Kilpatrick Apr 25, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 25:39 unnamed speaker Someone needs to vibe code a Google reader. 4 times in the scene

Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380) Apr 15, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:26 Chris Dixon Google shut down their Google reader software, which is the most popular RSS reader.

Ash Fontana – Investing in Artificial Intelligence at Zetta Ventures (First Meeting, EP.11) Oct 28, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:10:27 Ash Fontana That'd be great, and if Google Reader still existed, I'd probably prefer to do that, but they don't, and the proxy for that now, the way that you do that now is through Twitter.

20VC: Buffer's Joel Gascoigne on The Moment The Founder Is No Longer The Boss, The Questions Founders Must Ask Their VCs and Why We Need A Spectrum of Different Financing Mechanisms Other Than VC Mar 29, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:19 Joel Gascoigne I was using Google reader at the time and really being an avid subscriber to several different blogs, sharing those.

Microbes, Robots, and Ambition - Robin Sloan on His Novel Sourdough · Y Combinator Nov 29, 2017 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 34:06 Robin Sloan You'd add it to your Google Reader, long lamented, but, I mean, that, the loss of Google Reader was another true, I mean, truly, it was one of the, the nails in the coffin of blogging. 3 times in the scene

20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC Jan 6, 2016 · 1 mention

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