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E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
- ▶ 28:39 Jason Calacanis Well, uh, on my other podcast this week in startups, we played a game chat GPT versus the first result of Google's 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31:44 Michael Shellenberger If you just Google Michael Schellenberger YouTube
E108: Doxing debate, Nuclear fusion breakthrough, state of the markets & more
- ▶ 3:40 David Friedberg That the moderators and the executives at YouTube have dealt with, and that the executives at Google have dealt with, and that we sit here and we criticize until you're on that side of the table.
- ▶ 47:19 Chamath Palihapitiya I got mad, I'll be honest, I got mad at Friedberg when he edited that Google bit to say the exact opposite of what he actually said. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:51 David Friedberg And by the way, just look as an example at what Oracle did over the years, what Salesforce did over the years, what Google did.
E107: The Twitter Files Parts 1-2: shadow banning, story suppression, interference & more
- ▶ 14:17 David Friedberg Uh, and it goes back 20 years at this point on how Google does ranking, right? 5 times in the scene
E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
- ▶ 1:17:26 David Friedberg The, the search, you know, the way search works at Google, you know, and the internet search is there are these kind of servers, these web crawlers that go out and gather data. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:59 David Friedberg Years ago, Google started a product called the one box where they could take structured data. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:32 David Friedberg Um, and ultimately, you know, Google's core product, their, their, their search engine could be radically disrupted. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:48 David Sacks I saw a thread on this where somebody was asking GPT, you know, a bunch of questions, like they were like generally like coding questions, and they were actually comparing the result in Google versus GPT, and Google would just give you a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:29 Chamath Palihapitiya Learning about this area, six years ago, a team that I partnered with who was at Google that built TPU, we've been building silicon for this space, so we've been kind of going from the ground up for the last six years. 2 times in the scene
E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
- ▶ 59:04 Jason Calacanis Speaking of austerity measures, I think, you know, we should just talk right, right up top here about what's going on at Google.
- ▶ 59:14 Jason Calacanis He sent a letter to Google and Amazon. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:07 Jason Calacanis Microsoft quote, we acknowledge that Alphabet employs some of the most talented and brightest computer scientists and engineers, but these represent only a fraction of the employee base.
- ▶ 1:01:22 David Friedberg Drivers of the issue that Google, maybe Meta, maybe Twitter prior to Elon's involvement and, and really Silicon Valley as a whole, uh, the bigger companies have faced. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:44 Chamath Palihapitiya You know, technical capability like GFS and Bigtable to things like TPU to things like TensorFlow, and all of that builds up all the things that DeepMind does, all the compute we have to throw against search to support that.
- ▶ 1:06:44 Chamath Palihapitiya You know, technical capability like GFS and Bigtable to things like TPU to things like TensorFlow, and all of that builds up all the things that DeepMind does, all the compute we have to throw against search to support that. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:51 Chamath Palihapitiya The other thing is it now allows, let's just say that now Twitter goes to, I'm making up a number, 2000 employees after this whole Google form thing.
- ▶ 1:43:19 David Friedberg Cal, it also seriously speaks to the amount of excess, and it's really going to rationalize probably based on the conversations we had today about Twitter, Meta, Google, Amazon, Amazon, and this as well. 2 times in the scene
E103: Tech layoffs surge, big tech freezes hiring, optimizing for profits, election preview & more
- ▶ 16:08 Jason Calacanis And Google and Facebook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:31 Jason Calacanis And then my question for you is when do Google and Facebook stop this? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:37 David Friedberg And so, you know, earlier this year, Google's AlphaFold project published the three D structure of two hundred million proteins that they had derived from the whole genome databases that existed, where we've gone through and figured out… 2 times in the scene
E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
- ▶ 15:10 David Friedberg This is how Google operated originally, you know, and then they ended up saying, you know what, if we're going to be in China, we do have to create a censored version of the internet, and they did that, and that was controversial. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:11 David Friedberg And so you basically go through the indexing servers, they show you images and Google images, and you click porn or not porn.
- ▶ 37:01 Chamath Palihapitiya Boeing spent 32, Google and other bets has spent 40.
- ▶ 49:00 Chamath Palihapitiya Well, I think it was considered acceptable because in the Google bake off, all these banks were clamoring so hard. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:40 Chamath Palihapitiya Guys, they wanted to build fiber.
- ▶ 55:57 David Sacks And somewhere in there, they spent a billion or whatever on maps, and it ended up being a phenomenal asset when the whole world moved to mobile.
- ▶ 59:09 Jason Calacanis This is Google and 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:14 Chamath Palihapitiya I mean, what's incredible on this chart is that, you know, when, when everybody talks about being long the S and P 500, it was always really a proxy for being long Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple.
E101: Ye acquires Parler, Snap drops 30%, macro outlook, VC metrics, valuing stocks & more
- ▶ 17:20 David Friedberg Do you think that's different than Alphabet and Meta at 10 to one?
- ▶ 22:19 Chamath Palihapitiya As with Apple and Google, they Meta is forced to copy the best decisions of these bigger companies. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:22 Brad Gerstner David, this is the pushback to your point, unlike what the Google argument was.
- ▶ 31:17 Chamath Palihapitiya I think meta will be fine eventually because I think that they will revert to the mean and the mean is Microsoft, Google, and Apple, and we already know what that playbook looks like. 2 times in the scene
E100: Reflecting on the first 100 shows, fan questions, nuclear threat, markets, Amazon & more
- ▶ 37:47 Chamath Palihapitiya The alternative would be to go work at, you know, Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, where the terms are just completely different to what the experience was, you know, at a startup.
- ▶ 45:02 David Sacks And, you know, like if you were employee, whatever number X at Google, you're going to do better than most founders, even of a unicorn company.
- ▶ 1:01:15 Chamath Palihapitiya I found that out while Friedberg was talking in a two second Google search.
- ▶ 1:16:53 Chamath Palihapitiya That's it. 4 times in the scene
E99: Cheating scandals, Twitter updates, rapid AI advancements, Biden's pardon, Section 230 & more
- ▶ 3:58 Chamath Palihapitiya And so, you know, and you saw this by the way, when, uh, I think it was the, it was the Google AI, the deep mind AI that also played chess.
- ▶ 23:40 Chamath Palihapitiya Now, I don't know if that happened, but I'm sure that if it hasn't just bidding that out to Azure GCP and AWS can raise, you know, three or four billion dollars, because I'm sure those companies would want this kind of an app on their…
- ▶ 37:22 Chamath Palihapitiya And I was trying to recruit a person from Google
- ▶ 1:06:10 David Sacks I mean, Google and YouTube can advocate for whatever positions they want.
- ▶ 1:07:58 Chamath Palihapitiya That's why when you go to Google and you search for, you know, Michael Jordan, we know what the right Michael Jordan is because it's reasoned.
- ▶ 1:10:46 David Friedberg We saw it happen with YouTube, uh, competing against Google video and Microsoft video.
- ▶ 1:22:22 Chamath Palihapitiya Again, if you were not a monopoly, I would be more sympathetic, but because like somebody, somebody's feelings would get hurt, a product manager's feelings would get hurt inside of Google. 4 times in the scene
E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more
- ▶ 2:19 Jason Calacanis Google CEO Sundar Pichai also called out employees in July, as you guys all read. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:58 Chamath Palihapitiya Atlassian, Tesla, Uber, Google, Airbnb, Uber, Instagram, WhatsApp, incredible businesses that have created tremendous value.
- ▶ 51:14 Jason Calacanis We're gonna, we're gonna get Google and Apple who have unlimited cash to do a riff.
E97: SPAC updates, public/private market overview, Putin's end game & more
- ▶ 1:06:07 Chamath Palihapitiya The, the, the founder of deep mind. 3 times in the scene
E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more
- ▶ 25:03 David Friedberg It feels so similar to Facebook, Instagram, and Google, YouTube. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:31 Jason Calacanis So Google's app store could be on iOS. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:05 David Sacks And I remember Google had Google videos, but they just couldn't come close to catching YouTube because the flywheel of
- ▶ 43:48 David Friedberg I mean, and these are people, by the way, both Soller and Susan were, um, sub-thirty employee people, uh, at Google. 2 times in the scene
E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more
- ▶ 57:41 Chamath Palihapitiya But instead, because you have direct distribution in a relationship with tens or hundreds of millions of users, you can pour them into different experiences.
- ▶ 1:05:04 Jason Calacanis So if you would do a Google search for Achille, A-K-I-L-I.
- ▶ 1:11:02 David Friedberg Uh, Google and how do you actually build an audience, right? 2 times in the scene
E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security
- ▶ 19:48 Chamath Palihapitiya So, you know, if you don't feel like you're getting paid well at, you know, Google, you go to Meta and you get paid more and vice versa.
E93: Twitter whistleblower, cloud security vulnerabilities, student debt forgiveness & more
- ▶ 10:02 Chamath Palihapitiya My, my reading of the whistleblower claim is really that this is the kind of thing that companies like Facebook and Google and others have had issues with the FTC in the past.
- ▶ 23:14 Chamath Palihapitiya Apple, Google, Facebook. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:06 Jason Calacanis Uh, and for people who don't know, Google does what's called the transparency report.
- ▶ 1:01:50 Jason Calacanis Number one, there is a website grow with Google, you can just look up right now. 2 times in the scene
E92: Adam Neumann's second act, a16z's $350M bet, housing policy, Inflation Reduction Act & more
- ▶ 9:37 Jason Calacanis Just like they say, take an Uber, just like they say, Google it, uh, just like, you know, any other verb that we talk about. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:58 Chamath Palihapitiya I think like, if you put really smart computers on the case, or gave it to DeepMind at Google and said, Can you guys build this system or machine learning and AI, you'd be done tax and a simpler tax, which I guess this is trying to do, but…
E89: GDP growth negative in Q2, $SHOP layoffs, Alzheimer's fraud, Ginkgo acquires Zymergen & more
- ▶ 31:42 Chamath Palihapitiya Have you guys looked at the TikToks of these people that are, like, a day in the life of, like, a Google engineer or a day in the life?
E88: First principle politics, China chaos & outlook, state of private/public markets & more
- ▶ 1:39:15 Jason Calacanis Why didn't Google do this? 2 times in the scene
E87: Emerging markets, Sri Lanka, 9.1% CPI, market sentiment, NASA's Webb telescope & more
- ▶ 21:32 Chamath Palihapitiya So in this example, um, I went there and I offered to bring Google Loon, myself and Google. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:14 Jason Calacanis So that's why we see so many companies doing layoffs, cutting people, Microsoft, Google, everybody is now putting people on notice that they have to perform.
E86: Macro outlook: jobs, housing, inflation + Dutch farmers protests & EU climate missteps
- ▶ 12:48 David Sacks So the first thing I did is I tried to Google what's the total square footage in San Francisco, and I think it's about seventy-five million of office space.
- ▶ 39:08 Jason Calacanis Supposedly Google might follow suit with that.
- ▶ 1:11:58 Chamath Palihapitiya It would take an eight second Google search to know that less than 10% of the gas stations in America are owned by these corporates. 2 times in the scene
E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more
- ▶ 26:00 Jason Calacanis Is there, is there, when we look back on this whole mess in 10 years, is it going to be like the dot com era where we're like, yeah, it got overheated, but Amazon and Google came out of it?
- ▶ 37:06 Chamath Palihapitiya That's why it's so rare to have an Apple or a Google or a Microsoft or a Facebook or a Netflix where you can grow for 20 years at 25 plus percent because at some point, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:26 David Friedberg This was well rooted in, um, I would say probably Google, who became very generous very early on with issuing RSUs and stock in their publicly traded securities to employees as part of their compensation package. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:33:07 Jason Calacanis Can we just get the name of the paper so people can Google it?
E84: Markets update, crypto collapse, Russia/Ukraine endgame, state of the podcast
- ▶ 33:11 Chamath Palihapitiya Google was up.
#AIS: Palmer Luckey on Anduril
- ▶ 5:32 Palmer Luckey Google is one big example, but the worst examples are really in the startups that don't exist because people didn't want to even get into such a controversial space, less it ruined their careers.
- ▶ 38:54 Palmer Luckey Like, I think broadly the technology industry needs to support the military, and I'm glad that the conflict in Ukraine has changed at least the thinking around that, ah, but at the individual level, people should have the right to choose… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:27 Jason Calacanis The people at Google are cowards for not doing DOD contracts.
#AIS: Bestie AMA with Valor's Antonio Gracias
- ▶ 56:03 Chamath Palihapitiya So I didn't go to Stanford and I didn't work at Google, um, or Yahoo.
#AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders
- ▶ 2:05 Mar Hershenson You can Google it.
- ▶ 26:05 Chamath Palihapitiya Meaning if you look at a Google or a Facebook or even a Microsoft, when companies become almost too successful, it almost just locks these folks in 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:38 Mar Hershenson I think you Google imposter syndrome, and we all have it.
E83: Market slide continues, and how to address Uvalde
- ▶ 30:02 Chamath Palihapitiya Let's take an example like you, um, you know, well, we hear a lot about Google or Facebook, right?
- ▶ 31:13 Chamath Palihapitiya Anyways, the thing just completely implodes, the stock implodes by 48% or something, and then it, you know, rolls over to companies like Facebook and Google, who then are off eight or 10%. 3 times in the scene
#AIS: Tim Urban on political discourse + Keith Rabois on early-stage investing in 2022
E81: All-In Summit: Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner on markets, downturns & investment cycles
- ▶ 8:42 Brad Gerstner Go run your Google Trends.
- ▶ 19:33 Jason Calacanis We're looking at a Twitter with a thousand, you're looking at a Google, and even some of the startups, they got fat.
Elon Musk: Twitter's bot problem, SpaceX's grand plan, Tesla stories & more
E80: Recession deep dive: VC psychology, macro risks, Tiger Global, predictions and more
- ▶ 1:10:01 Jason Calacanis The only person who said they were going to hire into this was Google Sundar today said, maybe as many as 12,000 people over the next couple years, couple thousand a year.
- ▶ 1:23:01 Jason Calacanis Google, Uber. 2 times in the scene
E79: Analyzing the leaked draft overturning Roe v. Wade with Amy Howe and Tom Goldstein
- ▶ 2:07 Chamath Palihapitiya And most recently he represented Google in a fair use copyright infringement case, Google versus Oracle, um, about the use of Java APIs. 2 times in the scene
E78: VC fund metrics that matter, private market update, recession, student loans, Bill Hwang arrest
- ▶ 40:42 Chamath Palihapitiya So, you know, the Googles, the Microsofts, the Apples, and the Teslas.
E77: Tech work culture, crypto regulation, stablecoins, $NFLX & more w/ Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 9:24 Brian Armstrong You know, Google and Facebook, they were just kind of one upping each other on like higher and higher salaries. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:14 Chamath Palihapitiya Google, 2 times in the scene
E76: Elon vs. Twitter
- ▶ 5:28 Chamath Palihapitiya I think the, if anybody's interested in it, Nick, maybe you can just bring it up, but you can Google on Wikipedia.
- ▶ 25:28 Chamath Palihapitiya Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:34 Jason Calacanis Uh, just looking at Google, which is the greatest business ever created, perhaps, in terms of efficiency, as we've talked about, they have a 135,000 employees and revenue is two hundred fifty seven billion, which puts them at, uh, two,…
- ▶ 49:57 David Sacks It might even be Google. 2 times in the scene
E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more
- ▶ 1:30 Jason Calacanis He got his degree from his Google pedigree.
- ▶ 22:54 David Friedberg like so John Doerr was deeply involved in Google in the early days, like you're right, I'm, I'm, I'm simplifying our job.
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