Google Workspace
product on 29 shows · 10 statements across 10 episodes · said 357 times in 241 episodes since 2015
Top Founders 112 
20VC 41 
Big Technology 27 
Founder's Journal 25 
All-In 23 
Startups For the Rest of Us 14 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 13 
Lenny's Podcast 12 
Acquired 11 
TBPN 11 
the a16z Podcast 9 
No Priors 8 
Startup Acquisition Stories 5 
In Depth 5 
We Live to Build 5 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 5 
A Product Market Fit Show 5 
the MAD Podcast 5 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 4 
My First Million 4 
Latent Space 3 
the Neon Show 2 
Starter Story 2 
Innovators & Investors 1 
Cheeky Pint 1 
American Optimist 1 
Sourcery 1 
Capital Allocators 1 
How I Built This 1
Mentions by year, every show
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Top Founders 11220VC 41Big Technology 27Founder's Journal 25All-In 23Startups For the Rest of Us 14the Official SaaStr Podcast 13Lenny's Podcast 1221 more shows
2026 41 mentions in 33 episodes 1 per episode
- Google’s AI Comeback, Enterprise Agents, The Real Path to AI ROI — W/ Promevo CEO Karthik Kripapuri
- Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vibe Coding
- Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Tech Earnings Quadkill, Red Button vs Blue Button | Diet TBPN
- After $9B IPO This Founder is Rebuilding Internet for Agents | Sudheesh Nair, Thoughtspot, Nutanix
- War with Iran + Pentagon vs Anthropic with Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
- How Gamma pulled off their AI pivot | Jon Noronha (Co-founder and CPO of Gamma)
- AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
- 25 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 102 mentions in 77 episodes 1 per episode
- Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- The Playbook for Going Upmarket with Stripe's CBO and Checkr's COO
- Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit
- Value Lives in the Mind of the Customer, Not in Your Product
- Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World
- Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on AI Competition, Agents, And Tariffs
- The Secrets Inside Google Cloud’s Growth with Sarah Kennedy, Vice President Google Cloud Marketing
- No Priors | With Palo Alto Networks CEO & Former Chief Business Officer of Google Nikesh Arora
- 69 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 27 mentions in 23 episodes 1 per episode
- OpenAI Builds A Browser, Microsoft Copilot’s Struggles, Jaguar Rebrand
- Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
- E165: Vision Pro: use or lose? Meta vs Snap, SaaS recovery, AI investing, rolling real estate crisis
- How to Double Your Company From $16m to $30m Revenue Using Multiple Product Lines with Chilipiper CEO
- How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- His cap table will shock you. $100m revenue, $750m valuation in his series D with Coro Co-Founder Dror Liwer
- Building the Silicon Brain - Drew Houston of Dropbox
- OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data
- 15 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 21 mentions in 16 episodes 1 per episode
- No Priors Ep. 37 | With Kawal Gandhi
- The ultimate guide to OKRs | Christina Wodtke (Stanford)
- No Priors Ep. 38 | With Material Security Co-Founder Ryan Noon
- How to Generate $6m of Revenue and keep 100% Equity with BadgerMaps CEO
- Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- How Glean AI Slashes Vendor Costs: CEO Howard Katzenberg on AI Accounting
- Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Ilir Sela: How I Founded Slice Pizza & Became One of Macedonia’s Largest Employers | E1044 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 29 mentions in 17 episodes 2 per episode
- 20 Sales: Zoom's Head of North America Sales on When To Hire a Head of Sales, Why You Should Hire a Head of Sales Before Sales Reps, The 3 Traits to Look for When Hiring Sales Reps & What Sales Leaders Can Do To Make Their Sales Team Feel Like They Are Wi
- Des Traynor: How I Founded Intercom; Product Marketing Tips; Feature Creep | 20VC #907 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- $10m revenue founder uses debt to get leverage in $22m Series B for help desk software
- 20 Sales: The Stripe Sales Playbook; Who Should Create It, When Should it Be Done, Where Do Many Go Wrong | How To Identify 10x Sales Hires and How To Structure the Hiring Process in Sales with Jeanne DeWitt Grosser, Head of Americas Revenue & Growth @ St
- Look Back: UserZoom Eye's 2022 IPO, $100m Run Rate in User Experience Management Space
- 20 Sales: Notion's CRO Olivia Nottebohm on How To Build Great Operations at Your Company, How To Use The Trust Equation in Hiring, How To Do Referencing Most Effectively and Whether To Fill Seats or Wait for the Perfect Hire?
- 20 Sales: How To Build Sales Teams with a Product-Led-Growth GTM, What is a Sales Hiring Scorecard and How To Construct Yours & How To Structure the Onboarding Process for all New Sales Hires with Dannie Herzberg, Partner @ Sequoia Capital
- An inside look at how the New York Times builds product | Alex Hardiman (CPO, the New York Times)
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 28 mentions in 16 episodes 2 per episode
- Episode 552 | Google Audits, Partnerships, and Freemium with Mike Taber
- Brainstorming Million Dollar Ideas with Elaine Zelby | My First Million Ep. #175
- Startup Acquisition Stories with Aaron Stone (Founder) & Zach Hendershot (Managing Partner) from Crux Digital
- Jiva burning $50k/mo after raising $1.3m Seed, Plan to Turn POC's into Paid Accounts
- UserZoom Eye's 2022 IPO, $100m Run Rate in User Experience Management Space
- Secret Dev Shop Top SaaS Founders Use Breaks $10m in Revenue
- MDIHealth Raised $8m, Moving 6 PIlots To Full Time Customers With $1m+ ACV Potential
- Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Jakaitis Founder of Chatkick
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 20 mentions in 14 episodes 1 per episode
- Episode 503 | Idea Validation, Expanding Internationally, Affiliate Programs, and More
- Episode 511 | Raising Prices & Re-writing Your Codebase
- MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised
- Episode 504 | 15 Tools We Use to Run Our Business
- Front End As a Service, I Predict They'll Be $100m Within 3 Years
- Limble is Maintenance Automation Software, hits $2m Revenue, Bootstrapped Using 5% Debt
- On Launching a Second Product with Dharmesh Shah, CTO / Co-Founder HubSpot
- Ceptinel FinTech Founder Spent $700k, Now Has $6k in MRR, Whats Next?
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 24 mentions in 14 episodes 2 per episode
- 1296 3 Metrics 30m MAU Quizlet Tracks As They Pass 1m Paying Customers
- a16z Podcast | Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce
- 20VC: a16z's Ben Horowitz on How To Create An Environment of Trust with Founders, How and Why Creating Shocking Rules Is So Impactful To Culture & What The Samurai, Shaka Senghor and Toussaint Teach Us About Company Culture Building
- 1517 How $165M ARR DiscoverOrg Sales Operation Works
- 1492 Industrial IoT Platform Hits $150k MRR, 3x YoY growth
- 5 Myths That Stop SaaS Companies From Moving Upmarket Dropbox's CCO Yamini Rangan (now CEO HubSpot)
- 1366 ACT! and SalesLogix Founders New Company Hits $1m in ARR
- 1541 Brain Behind Sales Outreach Platforms Hits $150k MRR, 36 Customers
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 11 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- 1219 Will Prosperworks and it's 10,000 Paying Customers Win CRM Wars?
- 1042 "We're selling the company right now" for $10m+
- What's Next in Consumer Startups?
- 1174 Planning a $50m ICO for Property Investing, 55% Unlevered IRR Historically
- 1118 CEO: How I Bootstrapped to $3m in ARR
- 1110 Why His $1.2m ARR SaaS Company Shut Down
- 893 SaaS: How Zapier Passed 60k Paid Seats and $20m in ARR
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 18 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- 692: With Microsoft Deal and $225k MRR, Will He Win CRM Space?
- EP 526: Yanado Hits $25k MRR, Helping 17000 Users Better Manage Tasks with CEO Ivan Mojsilovic
- 655: Expensify 450k Customers Paying $9/mo for Expense Reports that Don't Suck with CEO David Barrett
- EP 537: Raised $150k Then CTO Left, Now He's Cruising $30k MRR with LeadFuze CEO Justin McGill
- 20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
- 754: They've Passed $15M in Revenue Using Breakfast Meetups for Growth
- VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
- Culture and Revolution
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2017 →
2016 35 mentions in 14 episodes 3 per episode
- EP 397: ProsperWorks SaaS 40k Paying Customers, Announces New Funding Adding to $10M Already
- 20VC: What VCs Really Mean They Say 'Stay In Touch', Why Incentivisation Through Perks Is Lazy & Why Founders Should Always Under-Promise & Over-Deliver with David Politis, Founder @ CEO @ Bettercloud
- EP 479: $45M Raised, 5000+ Project Management Customers with Mavenlink CEO Ray Grainger
- Cirrius Insights $640K MRR 100,000 Customers
- Cirrus Insight Is Doing $640k in MRR (Dec 2015) With Much Bigger Plans EP 226
- EP 425: $300k Webinar Sales Funnel Like You've Never Seen with Yuri Elkhaim
- EP 421: SaaS Accounting $238k MRR, $4.2M Raised, 200 Customers with Ceterus CEO Levi Morehouse
- EP 391: Why Gary V Led $1.5M Round In This Cosmetics Company
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2016 →
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10 statements about Google Workspace, every show
Foody: Millions of people will soon be hired to train AI on workplace tasks
“And so there's this enormous mobilization of hundreds of thousands and soon millions of people to build out the full distribution of everything that you could pass into Google Workspace and everything that you could want out on the other side in every job cate…”
Kohn: Meridian's cloud compute bill is smaller than its Google Workspace expenses
“People ask us constantly, what is your cloud compute Bill for having to process all these different metrics on these models and storing videos, and it's negligible. It's, I mean, doesn't even show up as a line item for us, really. And I think our Google suite …”
Gold Bond saw 70% adoption with Gemini for Google Workspace
“Like Gold Bond, I think we have some, we have a few press releases with them, and they're a great example of a company that has, you know, started out, you know, a Google Workspace, Gemini for Google Workspace, and they saw 70% adoption, right?”
Roy: Gemini's native integration inside Google Sheets functions terribly
“No, no, it's terrible. Like it's terrible. And it's so odd cause you can in Gemini access your sheets and do stuff to them much more effectively than if you are in Gemini in sheets And actually trying to do any kind of work”
Mager: Paralyzed patients will seamlessly control video games and software via BCIs
“So what we are going to enable in, in people who are right now paralyzed is seamless control of computers and smartphones and other digital devices in the way that we all frankly take for granted every day. So think about, you know, rich video games productivi…”
Kurian: Google bundled Gemini into Workspace instead of selling separate subscriptions
“We made Gemini part of Google Workspace. Rather than requiring somebody to buy a separate subscription.”
Kennedy: Employees only actually want to use Google Workspace and Slack
“For years, like large enterprises have had a lot of different opportunity and choice when it comes to collaboration and productivity platforms, but typically Only two of them people really want to use, and that's Google Workspace and Slack.”
Crivello: Users Add Delays to Fake Google Accounts to Disguise AI
“One pattern we've started to see is people provisioning accounts for their AI agents. And so in particular, Google Workspace accounts. So for example, Lindy can be used as a scheduling assistant. And so you can just CC her To your emails when you're trying to …”
Houston: Many companies employ IT staff solely to manually unshare shared links
“When we talked to customers, we found that there were like literally people In IT, whose jobs it is to, like, manually go through, log into each, like, log into Office, log into Workspace, log into each tool, and, like, go comb through, one by one, the links t…”