Sergey Brin
Co-founder, Google. On 3 shows, 4 appearances, plus 1 compilation re-air not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Sergey Brin co-founded Google with Larry Page in 1998 after developing the PageRank algorithm while at Stanford University, serving as president of Alphabet until 2019. He has since re-engaged in hands-on technical work at Google, directly contributing to artificial intelligence foundational models and computing infrastructure.
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43statements
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189said about them ↓ Everything Sergey Brin said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Brin: Artificial General Intelligence will arrive before 2030
“2030. Boy, you really kind of, ah, put it on that fine line. I'm gonna say before.”
Brin is a skeptic of humanoid robots despite industry hype
“I'm probably the one weirdo who doesn't, who's not a big fan of humanoids, but maybe I'm jaded because we've, you know, we at least acquired at least two humanoid robotic startups and later sold them. But the reason is, I mean, the reason people want to do hum…”
Brin claims management is the easiest business function to automate with AI
“Management is like the easiest thing to do with AI.”
Sergey Brin: Google Cloud turns away customers due to compute shortages
“For us, we're kind of building out compute as quickly as we can, and we just have a huge amount of demand. I mean, for example, our cloud customers just want a huge amount of TPUs, GPUs, you name it. You know, we just can't, we have to turn down customers beca…”
Sergey Brin admits Google's Gemini image issues stemmed from inadequate testing
“You know, we definitely messed up on the image generation and I think it was mostly due to just like not thorough testing.”
Brin: Algorithmic advances will probably outpace compute advances in AI
“If I had to guess, I would say the algorithmic advances are probably going to be Even more significant than the computational advances, but both of them are coming up now, so we're kind of getting the benefits of both.”
Brin: Multiple entities will reach AGI quickly following the first breakthrough
“I guess I would suppose that one company or country or entity will reach AGI first. Now it is a little bit of a, you know, kind of a spectrum. It's not like a completely precise thing, so it's conceivable that there will be more than one roughly in that range …”
Brin: Computer scientists should not be retired and should work on AI
“Anybody who's a computer scientist should not be retired right now, should be working on AI.”
Brin: Google fully intends Gemini to be the first AGI
“We fully intend that Gemini will be the very first AGI, clarify that.”
Brin: Google internal policy briefly banned engineers from using Gemini
“Okay, I, like recently, I just had a big tiff inside the company, because we have this list of what you're allowed to use to code, and what you're not allowed to use to code, and Gemini was on the null list.”
Brin: Specialized AI learnings inevitably get merged into general foundation models
“We are generally able to, after we do that, take those learnings and basically put that capability into a general model. So there's not that much benefit. You know, you could, you can get away with a somewhat smaller specialized model, a little bit faster, a l…”
Brin admits DeepSeek's release closed the gap with proprietary AI models
“Deep Seek released a really surprisingly powerful model when it was January or so. So that, that definitely closed the gap to proprietary models.”
Brin: I rely on AI for math and coding over my skills
“With my skill of math and coding, I feel like I'm better off just turning to the AI now.”
Sergey Brin: Google engineers underutilize AI tools for their own coding
“They don't honestly use the AI tools for their own coding as much as I think they ought to.”
Sergey Brin: AI development is trending toward unified, shared architectures
“But I do think the trend is to have a more unified model. I don't know if I'd call it a god model. But to have certainly sort of shared architectures and ultimately even shared models.”
Sergey Brin: AI algorithmic improvements may be outpacing compute scaling
“The algorithmic improvements that have come over the course of the last few years, ah, maybe are actually even outpacing the increased compute that's put into these models.”
Sergey Brin admits Google was 'too timid' to deploy language models
“We were too timid to deploy them”
Sergey Brin: AI technology should not be hidden until perfect
“I just don't think this is the technology you want to just kind of keep close to the chest and hidden until it's like perfect.”
Brin: Inference-time compute offsets 5,000x in training compute
“What they did with AlphaGo and AlphaZero, as you mentioned it showed, as I recall, something you would take 5000 times as much training to match what you were able to do with still a lot of training and the inference time compute that you were doing with Go.”
Sergey Brin: AI is the most exciting technology of my lifetime
“Being a computer scientist, it is, you know, the most exciting thing, you know, of my life, just technologically.”
Brin: Post-training and thinking models are a huge, uncapped step forward
“And more recently, the post-training, especially as the thinking models have come around. And that's been, you know, another huge step up in general in AI. So you know, we don't really know what the ceiling is.”
Brin: Google is internally testing third-party AI coding tools like Cursor
“No, we're trying to, you know, roll out every possible kind of AI and trying external ones, you know, be whatever the cursors of the world, all, all of those to just see what really makes people more productive.”
Brin admits the technology was simply not ready for Google Glass
“There are a bunch of things I wish I had done differently, but honestly, it was just like the technology wasn't ready for Google Glass.”
The other half of the tape: Sergey Brin's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 180 times in 91 episodes across the shows. 9 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Jason Calacanis 56David Friedberg 23David Sacks 15Ranjan Roy 14Chamath Palihapitiya 13Alex Kantrowitz 13Mark Pincus 5Marissa Mayer 5
Statements about Sergey Brin, by other people (9)
Swisher: Larry Page and Sergey Brin running Google would be a disaster
“I mean, he's certainly better than Larry and Sergey, that's for sure. I mean, those two. Like, okay, that would be a disaster.
Why a disaster?
Because they're just, they've lost the narrative, the two of them.”
Sergey Brin believes future AI progress will be primarily algorithmic
“Just to go back to a conversation that I had a couple of weeks ago, or now month plus with Sergey Brin, where he said he thinks that the improvement is going to largely be algorithmic. Of these models, meaning not by adding more GPUs and data by like actually …”
Levie: Google is not going to lose the AI coding battle
“This is a company that has A great operator in Sundar, an incredible, you know, AI innovator in, in Demis Jeff Dean, you know, deep on research and science, and then now this kind of hardcore founder in Sergei, like this is not a company that is going to lose …”
Calacanis says Google co-founder Sergey Brin attended Trump inaugural events
“I saw Sergei last night. Sergei's here. You know, they'll, they'll have Sergei here.”
Pichai: Sergey Brin is actively coding with Google's Gemini team
“Sergey is definitely, ah, spending time with the Gemini team at a, ah, you know, in a pretty hardcore way, like, you know, sitting and coding and, ah, spending time with the engineers.”
Friedberg: Tech founders Page, Brin, Zuckerberg, and Dorsey favor free speech
“All these guys, Larry, Larry and Sergei, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey they are all fundamentally free speech people. They believe in the power of the open internet.”
Sacks: Sergey Brin confirms he is deeply involved in Google DeepMind again
“We saw him at the dinner at the White House yesterday, and he said he's very involved in Google DeepMind again.”
Calacanis: Sergey Brin works around 70 hours a week at Alphabet
“He's working, like, 70 hours a week over at, ah, Alphabet”
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All-In 119
Big Technology 49
TBPN 12
2026 31 mentions in 24 episodes 1 per episode
- Is AI Killing Software? — With Bret Taylor, OpenAI's board chair and CEO of Sierra
- Is Google's Gemini Winning?, Thinking Machines Drama, Claude Cowork’s Potential
- All-In's 2026 Predictions
- Claude Code’s Shining Moment, ChatGPT for Healthcare, End Of Busywork?
- AI Kills Everybody or Doomer Psyop? OpenAI’s Math Breakthrough, Nike’s $200B Collapse
- Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI
- The $1/Hour Robot Is Coming: Four Industry Leaders Explain What’s Next
- The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
- 16 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 79 mentions in 32 episodes 2 per episode
- Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World
- Inside the White House Tech Dinner, Weak Jobs Report, Tariffs Court Challenge, Google Wins Antitrust
- OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line?
- All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- Eric Schmidt on AI, the Battle with China, and the Future of America
- Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories
- OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
- OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google In AI Mode
- 24 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 35 mentions in 14 episodes 3 per episode
- Why Marissa Mayer Is Betting Big On Consumer Tech
- Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
- E168: Can Google save itself? Abolish HR, AI takes over Customer Support, Reddit IPO teardown
- Hurricane fallout, AlphaFold, Google breakup, Trump surge, VC giveback, TikTok survey
- Nikesh Arora | All-In Summit 2024
- "Founder Mode," DOJ alleges Russian podcast op, Kamala flips proposals, Tech loses Section 230?
- Meta's scorched earth approach to AI, Tesla's future, TikTok bill, FTC bans noncompetes, wealth tax
- DOGE kills its first bill, Zuck vs OpenAI, Google's AI comeback
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 17 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
- Why Google Never Shipped LaMDA Its ChatGPT Predecessor
- Amazon Reveals Its AI Master Plan — With Matt Wood
- E150: Israel/Gaza escalating or not? EU censorship regime, Penn donors revolt, GLP-1 hype cycle
- Elon Musk: Ukraine, X, the creator economy, China, AI, & more | All-In Summit 2023
- E125: SpaceX launch, Fox News settlement, "Zombie-corn" exodus to AI, late-stage implosion
- E120: Banking crisis and the great VC reset
- E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 9 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
- E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more
- E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more
- Pt. 2: Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT (And Responds To Criticism)
- E66: $FB's big drop, Rogan/Spotify mess, Xi/Putin meetup & supply chain issues with Ryan Petersen
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 8 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- E26: State of Venture Capital, plus fan questions on longevity, decentralization & quantum computing
- E57: Understanding Omicron, tech stocks plummet, VC's great resignation, Jack Dorsey's departure
- E54: Spread trading big tech, capital allocation, Zillow's misfire, Progressives suffer losses
- E53: Wealth tax, inflation as a capital allocator, big tech earnings, paternity leave & more
- E43: Innovative venture strategies, Zymergen's implosion, Square acquires Afterpay & more
- E41: Vaccine policy, Big Tech, DeepMind's latest breakthrough, wealth creation, opportunity & more
- E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
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| ALL-INLEDGER | Co-founder, Google | 3 | 32 | 100% 3/3 | full record on All-In → |
| BIG TECHNOLOGYLEDGER | Co-founder, Google | 1 | 10 | 50% 1/2 | full record on Big Technology → |
| TBPNLEDGER | Co-founder, Google | 0 +1 | 1 | — | full record on TBPN → |