Mountain View
other on 14 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes · said 31 times in 30 episodes since 2017
20VC 7 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 6 
Top Founders 5 
Another Podcast 2 
Innovators & Investors 2 
Latent Space 2 
Sourcery 2 
American Optimist 1 
A Product Market Fit Show 1 
the MAD Podcast 1 
the a16z Podcast 1 
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2026 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2025 10 mentions in 10 episodes 1 per episode
- Inside the Myths: Emil Michael on Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril & the Modern DoW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
- Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator
- David Rothzeid on How Shield Capital Fuels Dual-Use Innovation in Defense-Tech
- 🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk & Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Investing in Emerging U.S. Markets and Founder-Led Growth with FirstMile Ventures
- Inside the Paper That Changed AI Forever - Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez on 2025 Agents
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2024 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- How my $5k hobby project used 1 to many selling to reach $700k ARR in a year
- 20VC: Why You Should Think Twice Before Taking Multi-Stage Money at Seed, Why Venture Has Never Been Less Collaborative, How Becoming a Parent Made Me a Better Investor and Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future of Diversity in Venture with Deena Sh
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2020 2 mentions in 1 episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 5 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Being A Wartime Leader in a Time of Peace, Why Marketing Channel Diversification Is Like The Life of A Scientist and Why Small and Mighty Beats Loud and Weak with Ooshma Garg, Founder & CEO @ Gobble
- Geoff Ralston and Adora Cheung Discuss Startup School · Y Combinator
- 1101 Bloomreach CEO: We've turned down acquisition offers in $400m range
- Uncut Interview with Sam Altman on Masters of Scale [Audio] · Y Combinator
- Startup Investor School Preview with Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
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2017 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 730: How Two JP Morgan Men Sell $600k+ In Baby Clothes
- 712: How To Use a Distribution Channel to Get 200 Customers Paying $15k per Year
- EP 596: ClaimCompass Has Helped 1000 Airline Passengers Get $420 Each Back From Airlines for Cancelled Tickets and Lost Items with CEO Tatyana Mitkova
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4 statements about Mountain View, every show
Rabois: PayPal had only 12 to 17 'barrels' among 254 Mountain View employees
“At PayPal, we had about 254 people in Mountain View when we were acquired.
Of those people, depending on how strict you really want to be, it is considered one of the best talent-rich networks of all time in technology.
There is between 12 to 17 barrels in t…”
Lemkin: Sergey Brin has left Mountain View and will not return
“He's gone. He ain't coming back except for staff meetings and hackathons in, in Mountain View. He's gone.”
Younis: A startup across the street pays double Applied Intuition's rent
“We in this office pay an X amount for rent per square foot. There's a very well funded high growth company across the street that pays two X. Literally two, two times the per square foot.”
Mountain View is poorly suited for heavily regulated frontier tech startups
“Like if you wanted to build a company that operates drones and trades in Bitcoin while doing that and maybe layer something, I don't know, stem cells into that mixer or something, it's very unlikely that you should create that company in Mountain View.”