Google, every mention
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every year 2020 anyone Jason Calacanis 1218David Friedberg 717Chamath Palihapitiya 574David Sacks 300Sundar Pichai 41Brad Gerstner 36Gavin Baker 26Thomas Laffont 18Bill Maris 17Nikesh Arora 15
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Google comes up
E15: “The Besties” All-In’s inaugural award show covering the best, worst & most memorable of 2020
- ▶ 19:07 Jason Calacanis Skype, Slack video, Google Hangouts, and fixing all their China issues and getting to a hundred billion dollar valuation is notable.
- ▶ 19:53 Chamath Palihapitiya Facebook and Google exiting the year with umpteen antitrust lawsuits. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:47 David Sacks And despite that fact, you now have, to Chamath's point, Google, YouTube, and even sites like LinkedIn or Nextdoor are now censoring
- ▶ 46:23 Jason Calacanis Will it be better for them than YouTube is for Google or Instagram is for?
E14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
- ▶ 17:56 Jason Calacanis He was running, he was hanging around the basket with Twitter, and then they also brought his name up for TikTok, which made no sense, so I think Benioff is just looking at this like, if, if Google and Microsoft and Apple are too scared to…
- ▶ 33:58 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, but the reality is that, you know, Google will still have to spend a deep mind will have to spend a lot of time refining it. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:59 David Friedberg I mean, Alphabet's burning four to five billion dollars a year on their quote unquote other bets line. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:19 David Friedberg Applied semantics, a lot of people miss this, but applied semantics was a hundred million dollar bet, and that's the entirety of AdSense initially, right?
- ▶ 35:24 Jason Calacanis Android, Chrome.
- ▶ 43:26 Chamath Palihapitiya Now, when you talk about five billion people getting access to code, that's basically running an AWS or GCP instance someplace, and you have a one percent, you know, bad guy rate, all of a sudden that one percent really matters. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:10 Chamath Palihapitiya Because as you said, David, you're going to have to all of a sudden, like look at companies like Google and look at things like AlphaFold and reject them. 2 times in the scene
E12: Biden wins, Pfizer vaccine, markets rip, Trump's next act, COVID endgame scenarios & more
- ▶ 45:03 Chamath Palihapitiya And part two is what Friedberg says, which is you understand that we need to enter sort of the Google CPC world of political advertising and really cater not just the ads, but also the message to individual people and stop the, um, you…
E10: Twitter & Facebook botch censorship (again), the publisher vs. distributor debate & more
- ▶ 7:15 Chamath Palihapitiya But if I was a betting man, which I am, I think that section two 30 is, their days are numbered, and Facebook, Twitter, Google, all these companies are going to have to look more like newspapers and television stations.
E9: Trump has COVID, First debate reactions, Coinbase letter response & more
- ▶ 39:39 David Friedberg If I'm an engineer at Google or Coinbase, I go into work, and I am captive, right?
E8: TikTok + Oracle, how privacy loss will impact society, economy & COVID outlooks for 2021
- ▶ 7:50 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, and you know, some companies have, and some companies like, you know, Google have not, and other companies like Facebook have been totally, basically blocked from entering. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:23 Chamath Palihapitiya Guys, look, if you, if you had to bet, David, um, what do you think the odds are between zero and a hundred with a hundred being absolute certainty that there are foreign national spies that work at Google, Facebook, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:10 David Friedberg If we just go back a second, talking about the broad, you know, as Chamath called it, kind of this canary in a coal mine, you know, I don't know how many of you guys use an Amazon Echo or a Google Home or Amazon Fire TV or a Nest…
E7: California's collapse, how SPACs are opening the markets for growth stocks & more
- ▶ 33:22 Chamath Palihapitiya For example, Facebook and Google and Apple essentially say, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:31 Chamath Palihapitiya Google says, I'm going to put all of you guys on the map view.
E6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more
- ▶ 5:01 David Friedberg And so the, the acts that people had to grind were kind of pointed at Google and Facebook and Amazon in different ways. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:36 David Friedberg The infrastructure layer in the case of Google and Facebook is, is, is reasonably similar. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:07 David Friedberg Um, and so I think it's, uh, Sach's point is right, is like, I'd rather as a, and look, I worked in M&A at Google, uh, for a couple of years early in my career. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:25 David Friedberg You know, we bought a company called Applied Semantics for a hundred million bucks, or a hundred something million dollars at the time, um, which ultimately became AdSense. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:36 David Friedberg Um, and basically determine what keywords that webpage represented and then match ads from AdWords onto that, that webpage.
- ▶ 40:29 Chamath Palihapitiya If you're paying 500,000 or a million people, if Facebook and Google and these guys come together and Twitter, and they pay a body of people to do this work,
- ▶ 55:21 Chamath Palihapitiya By the way, Facebook, Google, and Twitter already have this mechanism because that's what they do to graduate advertisers up the spending curve.
- ▶ 1:10:15 Chamath Palihapitiya So it's, you know, Amazon today I don't think is at risk just because its end market is so big, but I think within five or 10 years, um, it definitely will be looked at through the same lens as Facebook and Google and, um, actually just… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:35 David Sacks Um, you know, if you look at kind of Amazon versus say Google or Facebook or Apple, I mean, those other companies are sort of sticking to their original footprint.
- ▶ 1:31:25 Chamath Palihapitiya Like, I don't know if you guys saw, but like, there are industries that are posting, it's not just Facebook, Amazon, and Google, posting meat and beats like you wouldn't believe.
E5: WHO's incompetence, kicking off Cold War II, China's grand plan, 100X'ing American efficiency
- ▶ 55:50 Jason Calacanis I believe they picked the side of Trump, I'm sorry, the side of anti-Trump in order to get subscriptions because their advertising business has been demolished by the duopoly of Facebook and Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:23 David Sacks Technology companies, you know, Google, Facebook, and so on.
E4: Politicizing the pandemic, Police reform, Twitter vs Facebook with David Sacks & David Friedberg
- ▶ 49:24 Chamath Palihapitiya It's also Google's.
E3: Modern Cold War, politicizing the pandemic & more with David Sacks & David Friedberg
- ▶ 21:48 Chamath Palihapitiya So don't, don't quite, you know, don't look at Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and a handful of, you know, internet SaaS companies and kid yourself.
E2: Rebooting economy, understanding corporate debt, avoiding a depression & more with David Sacks
- ▶ 1:11:31 Jason Calacanis And he's gonna, he put it in a Google sheet. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:11 Jason Calacanis Wear a mask, and to those people on the front lines, the janitors, the Google, uh, the Amazon drivers, Instacart, people in the food supply.
E1: US Response to COVID-19 & Impact on Startups, VC & Public Markets with David Friedberg
- ▶ 1:18:08 Jason Calacanis You can, you can Google it if you've got, uh, if you're not squeamish, but essentially in Chinese culture, as I've read it in the Wall Street Journal and in the World Health Organization's advisements to cancel and to shut down wet markets, 2 times in the scene
E0: COVID-19 Political, Economic & Social Ramifications featuring David Friedberg
- ▶ 20:56 Chamath Palihapitiya We're in the business of editorializing, and we've been in that business since basically Facebook and Google, you know,
- ▶ 1:10:01 Jason Calacanis So the Googles, Apples, Amazons of the world are sitting on tons of cash.