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Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge Aug 24, 2026 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 0:14 Pete Florence I did my PhD at MIT, and then I was at Google D-Mind for four and a half years.
  • ▶ 1:10 Joe Lonsdale Pete was an MIT PhD, a superstar at DeepMind, and a generalist.
  • ▶ 4:54 Pete Florence I did my PhD at MIT, and then I was, um, at Google DeepMind for four and a half years. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:56 Joe Lonsdale I mean, general intelligence for the physical world, ah, you were probably one of the most resource-rich places at DeepMind. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:08 Pete Florence Um, I think, like, uh, I, I have many lovely things to say about my time at Google, like, uh, the, the 20% culture of, like, encouraging you to go to do things outside of what's supposed to be your nominal job, like, the just, like, 2 times in the scene

Why AI Creators Keep Panicking (They're Wrong) Jul 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:16 Aaron Levie So the Googles, the Metas, um, you know, our, our various startups were, were the ones that hired all the engineers.

America’s $700 Billion Defense Tech Rebuild Jul 24, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 11:29 Joe Lonsdale What, what are some of the things other than the Google win that you've done there? 2 times in the scene

Why AI is Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution Jul 9, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 12:49 JD Ross One, like, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, they're all gonna, in the same way that you probably don't want to build an email company while Google's on its arise, because they're gonna come and eat that, like, every one of these companies is… 2 times in the scene

How AI Agents Are Transforming This $140 Billion Industry · Joe Lonsdale Jul 2, 2026 · 2 mentions

How AI Agents Are Creating an Infinitely Scalable Workforce · Joe Lonsdale Jun 18, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 31:37 Nima Ghamsari Yeah, and every new, I want to put an update to it, every new model that comes out, so that a new model comes out, let's say Gemma, you know, there's, there's this rumor that Google is going to release something at Google I.O. next year,…
  • ▶ 31:37 Nima Ghamsari Yeah, and every new, I want to put an update to it, every new model that comes out, so that a new model comes out, let's say Gemma, you know, there's, there's this rumor that Google is going to release something at Google I.O. next year,…

Trump’s Plan for AI Dominance · Joe Lonsdale May 19, 2026 · 2 mentions

Why this Billionaire Just Took Over NASA · Joe Lonsdale Mar 3, 2026 · 1 mention

How to Use AI in 2026: Opendoor Founder's Advice · Joe Lonsdale Feb 27, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 5:05 JD Ross He was like, don't work for, I think it was a Google recruiting dinner. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:48 JD Ross I think one, like, Anthropix, OpenAI, Google, they're all gonna, in the same way that you probably don't want to build an email company while Google's on its arise, because they're gonna come and eat that. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:58 Joe Lonsdale I assume like Google's working on something here for this, because there's an obvious problem that they should, they should be solving.

Top Tech Investors: This AI Wave Is 10X Bigger Than SaaS · Joe Lonsdale Feb 17, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:55 Joe Lonsdale You were at Google.
  • ▶ 13:28 unnamed speaker Amazon, Microsoft, and Google primarily have been able to move up the stack into managed services.
  • ▶ 17:40 unnamed speaker Google historically and likely will continue being the productivity business. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:52 unnamed speaker And if you are a G Suite user, or if you're a Gmail user, chances are these products are going to continue getting smarter and smarter.

AI Expert: Agents Will Take Over Everything · Joe Lonsdale Feb 4, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 0:17 Joe Lonsdale You sold your company to Google.
  • ▶ 1:15 Joe Lonsdale He sold his last company to Google.
  • ▶ 11:11 Joe Lonsdale The, and, and then Google ended up buying, buying me, I guess it merged with fire or Google bought it ultimately.
  • ▶ 18:33 Kevin Mandia You know, Google and Microsoft and others and Amazon, everybody wants to impose risks or repercussions.
  • ▶ 21:46 Joe Lonsdale Well, let's talk about, let's talk about that because you, you sold, you sold your company to Google and, and, and, you know, all of a sudden all these new possibilities have emerged the last few years. 3 times in the scene

Pentagon Chief: 6 Weapons That Will Prevent WW3 · Joe Lonsdale Jan 9, 2026 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 0:28 Emil Michael In two months, we were able to launch Gen AI, which is Google's Gemini, for every employee.
  • ▶ 7:23 Emil Michael And you read the, you know, you, you find your way to answers, which is why in two months of owning, being the chief AI, having the chief AI office run in my world, which was a new move, we were able to launch, uh, gen AI, which is… 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:07 Joe Lonsdale The Google win that you've done there. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:33 Emil Michael And that relationship is something that, you know, Google's being the perfect example of this, just open mind, like, wow, the world's different now.

What Steve Jobs Knew About Innovation That You Don't · Joe Lonsdale Nov 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:08 Joe Lonsdale We'd still have Facebook and Google and Apple iPhones and everything. 2 times in the scene

The One Thing AI Will Never Replace · Joe Lonsdale Sep 15, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:22 Max Meyer First and foremost, the advertising revenues have just been very bad over the last 20 years since, since, since Google and Meta started taking a bigger share of the ads.
  • ▶ 24:24 Max Meyer I think it's super entertaining that, you know, Waymo, which is, uh, you know, owned by Google, self-driving cars, it's very much a Bay Area company.

Senator Exposes America’s Biggest Censorship Scandal · Joe Lonsdale Aug 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:36 Senator Eric Schmitt Well, and think about, think of the contrast from where Google was say like a decade ago where they didn't want to go.

From Palantir to Space Defense: Building a $100 Billion Company · Joe Lonsdale Aug 13, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:41 Joe Lonsdale This is the one that famously Google's protesters stopped it from working out.
  • ▶ 6:57 Joe Lonsdale This is the one that famously Google's protesters stopped it from working on, which scared a lot of us.

Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale Jul 28, 2025 · 3 mentions

How AI Robots Are Taking Over Construction · Joe Lonsdale Jul 16, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:09 Joe Lonsdale He built a robotics consumer company, a lot of really cool popular toys, and it was bought by Google.
  • ▶ 6:57 Joe Lonsdale You sold on key to Google and you went there and you became, you became a key leader at Waymo, which everyone knows. 3 times in the scene

Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale Jun 26, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 20:07 Dave Rubin There have been no Google files, although Rumble's in a lawsuit with Google. 2 times in the scene

Why California is Collapsing From Within · Joe Lonsdale Jun 19, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:53 Steve Hilton My wife was, um, working at, she had a big job at Google. 2 times in the scene

From Math Prodigy to AI Genius: How Scott Wu Built Devin · Joe Lonsdale Jun 12, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 12:01 Scott Wu Um, I mean, I think, like, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, I mean, a lot of these folks are, like, the, the folks running all these big labs, and then, of course, like, the folks running a lot of these, these startups are actually,
  • ▶ 42:24 Scott Wu Um, Google had a really amazing result where they got a silver medal at the international math Olympiad.

The Truth About AI: Sam Lessin’s Contrarian Take · Joe Lonsdale May 17, 2025 · 2 mentions

Ex-Bud Light President: The Truth Behind the Brand’s Collapse · Joe Lonsdale Feb 21, 2025 · 1 mention

The Terrifying Truth AI Researchers Don’t Understand · Joe Lonsdale Dec 13, 2024 · 8 mentions

AI Vs Engineers: Will They Be Replaced? · Joe Lonsdale Dec 6, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:09 Dylan Sirota So you've got Google offices all over, you've got Amazon offices all over, and so that is taking kind of the great potential of a talent pool, training them, and now they're really, ah, there's a lot of different markets that are coming to… 2 times in the scene

Turning Whiskey Into Millions — The Hustler Behind WhistlePig · Joe Lonsdale Nov 29, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:32 Raj Bhakta My key members of the team from a business standpoint saying, hey, look, you know, you're working for Google, and you just got your, you have to pick your pronoun, and, uh, it's difficult to raise your kids.

How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Embarrassing The U.S. Government · Joe Lonsdale Nov 22, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:06 Steve Blank You know, what's really interesting is, uh, I think of GPT and chat, uh, uh, AI is kind of a shiny object that really, uh, people are kind of like distracted by, you know, the Nobel prizes that came out this year were real, really the…

Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale Nov 2, 2024 · 18 mentions

  • ▶ 2:57 Elad Gil No, I ended up, um, eventually making my way to Google. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:30 Joe Lonsdale What were the lessons from building a team at Google on the mobile side? 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:09 Joe Lonsdale So you made enough money at Google. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:50 Elad Gil When I worked at Google, they were very polymathic, very deep on everything.
  • ▶ 28:53 Elad Gil And so that's, maybe you would have ended up at Google or Meta or whatever.
  • ▶ 30:09 Joe Lonsdale You were doing AI at Google early on.
  • ▶ 35:43 Elad Gil It's basically, um, and this is based on this new architecture called the transformer architecture, which was invented at Google in 2017.
  • ▶ 47:58 Elad Gil Um, Google released a model, I think two years ago called MedPalm too, where, um, if you compare the answers from that model relative to physician experts, it outperformed them.

Jonathan Greenblatt on Ta-Nehisi Coates, CRT, and woke politics · Joe Lonsdale Oct 18, 2024 · 1 mention

He Predicted Putin's Invasion. Now He Predicts When China Will Invade Taiwan. · Joe Lonsdale Aug 22, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:44 Dmitri Alperovitch Because I had worked on a case at McAfee called Aurora that I named Aurora, which was a hack of Google by China. 3 times in the scene

Ep 87: Dr. Cliff Winston — Deregulate Lawyers, Deregulate Airlines & Let Markets Correct Themselves · Joe Lonsdale May 2, 2024 · 2 mentions

Ep 84: Sri Ganesan on Freshworks' Big Win, Building Rocketlane & India's Tech Boom · Joe Lonsdale Apr 11, 2024 · 2 mentions

Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale Feb 14, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:52 Emil Michael Maybe I shouldn't have raised that hundred million because I went to Google early on or something, but, but that didn't work out.

Ep 77: Mike Solana on Exposing Corruption, Saving San Francisco, and Building a New Media Empire · Joe Lonsdale Feb 8, 2024 · 1 mention

Ep 76: Accelerate or Die! Guillaume Verdon and the e/acc Movement · Joe Lonsdale Jan 31, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 6:19 Guillaume Verdon Being approached by Google to prototype, really, what would a, a TensorFlow for quantum computing look like? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:11 Joe Lonsdale A lot of people at Google don't seem to have those values where you worked for a while. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:58 Guillaume Verdon Yeah, I, I did find a cluster of people that, that, you know, were, uh, um, more patriotic, and obviously, uh, I can't talk too much about what I worked on, because after that, after working at Google, uh, Quantum, I essentially, I moved…
  • ▶ 33:43 Joe Lonsdale You, you, you left Google and you've been working on a new startup for how long now?

Ep 72: Illegal Chinese Bio Labs & Secret Police Inside America! Congressman Mike Gallagher · Joe Lonsdale Nov 30, 2023 · 1 mention

Ep 69: How a Teenager Set Out to Rid the Ocean of Plastic; Boyan Slat & the Ocean Cleanup · Joe Lonsdale Nov 8, 2023 · 1 mention

Ep 67: Brad Gerstner on the AI Supercycle & Restoring Faith in Capitalism · Joe Lonsdale Oct 25, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 6:23 Brad Gerstner Another one was a little search engine called Google. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:39 Brad Gerstner So for a decade, I started and invested in search businesses, horizontal, like Google, and vertical search engines, like leading the series B and Zillow, or Faircast, or Sidestep, or Kayak, or, uh, booking.com.
  • ▶ 12:29 Brad Gerstner Google's IPO.

Ep 66: Bob McGrew — the Superstar Palantir Alum Leading OpenAI's Transformative Research Projects · Joe Lonsdale Aug 18, 2023 · 1 mention

Ep 65: Marc Andreessen and the Case for AI Optimism · Joe Lonsdale Jul 18, 2023 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 24:03 Joe Lonsdale I'm wondering, so, so, so I was, I was with some friends recently, my friend who ran, ran Google for a long time, and he was saying how basically like deep linking was illegal in the UK for a long time, and Google had to fix that to go… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:30 Marc Andreessen So, so, so, you know, how these AIs are trained, like how ChatGPT is trained, it's actually not that dissimilar to how Google's trained in a, in a, in a sense of like step one is like hoover up all the data, right? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:47 Marc Andreessen Which is you or I today, um, can sign up for, you know, full GPT-IV or full mid journey for like 20 bucks a month, or we don't even need to do that because we can go to Microsoft Bing, which is free, or Google Bard, which is free, and…

Ep 62: Ben Rubenstein Says Resumes Are Useless; Here's How to Find the Best Salespeople · Joe Lonsdale Jun 15, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:21 Ben Rubinstein Yeah, we, we founded the company early 2005, but we were doing a lot of this in 2004, and this was the early days of Google AdWords, early days of, uh, Overture, which was MSN and Yahoo at the time, and, uh, our motto was, and this is a…
  • ▶ 3:36 Ben Rubinstein We had to convince your local dentist, doctor, electrician, plumber, hair salon, that people went to the internet, and if you searched on Google for hair salon in Philadelphia,

Ep 61: High School Dropout to Billion-Dollar Startup; the Story of Guillermo Rauch & Vercel · Joe Lonsdale Jun 11, 2023 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 5:09 Guillermo Rauch And that's the language that you have to use if you want to do some really cool things, like animations, like real time, um, synchronization, which I became obsessed with, like chat applications, Gmail chat, Google docs, Google wave, all…
  • ▶ 5:09 Guillermo Rauch And that's the language that you have to use if you want to do some really cool things, like animations, like real time, um, synchronization, which I became obsessed with, like chat applications, Gmail chat, Google docs, Google wave, all…
  • ▶ 10:30 Guillermo Rauch You can Google any error message and you're right, like as if those weren't substantial enough benefits.
  • ▶ 17:44 Guillermo Rauch And then on the infrastructure side, Google, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:58 Guillermo Rauch And this goes back to why we take so much pride in democratizing access to technologies that Meta or Google have invented.
  • ▶ 29:29 Guillermo Rauch oh my god, like, the engineers at Google, Airbnb, love it, whatever.
  • ▶ 37:25 Guillermo Rauch So just like Google Docs made every document in the world have a URL.

Ep 57: Balaji Srinivasan on the Severity of the Bank Crisis and the Future of Bitcoin · Joe Lonsdale May 11, 2023 · 2 mentions

Ep 55: Nathan Mintz on Directed Energy, a New Space Age & the Final Hurdles to a Driverless Future · Joe Lonsdale Apr 27, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:18 Joe Lonsdale I remember Google started introducing a bunch of these over a decade ago when I was living, you know, near Palo Alto. 2 times in the scene

Ep 53: Joe Gebbia Changed the World with Airbnb. Here's What He's Building Next. · Joe Lonsdale Apr 12, 2023 · 2 mentions

Why This Social Justice Activist Became an Entrepreneur Instead · Joe Lonsdale Mar 15, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:14 Eboo Patel So, so, so, so just Google, like, uh, uh, um, paintings of Akbar the Great, right?

How to Disrupt the $38 Billion Storage Industry · Joe Lonsdale Mar 8, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:11 Rahul Gandhi I do think that ultimately you need to build some community and, you know, outside of just opening up the Zoom or Google Hangout.
  • ▶ 31:33 Rahul Gandhi Like, took Google how long, and you've seen a lot that have happened, you know, very quickly.

Kimmy Scotti: How to Spot (and Build) the Next Big Thing · Joe Lonsdale Jan 26, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:21 Joe Lonsdale If you're just doing it on Google or Facebook at this point, there's probably everyone else doing that too, so figure it out.

Legendary iPod & iPhone Creator Tony Fadell Shares His Design Secrets · Joe Lonsdale May 20, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:45 Tony Fadell I got a, I got a couple of calls, uh, um, uh, from Andy Rubin at the time, who I worked with at General Magic, working on Android before Android was bought by Google. 2 times in the scene
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