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Software’s Epic Comeback, Meta’s AI Layoffs Blunder, South Korea Stock Market Chaos Aug 31, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:42 Ranjan Roy If you gave it some, even Spud would have been okay on this one, but if, uh, if you gave it a good codename, maybe this would have worked, but Project OT sounds like worse than McKinsey.

Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble Jul 20, 2026 · 1 mention

Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI Jun 8, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 25:17 Ranjan Roy Yeah, you're, I mean, yeah, Google completely disproves my point, but I still, my, one of my favorite hot takes is that Google's entire, uh, AI transformation success can be traced back to the fact that Sundar was a McKinsey alum and looks… 3 times in the scene

Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank May 18, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:13 Ranjan Roy We've theorized that maybe Sundar's McKinsey chops helped him kind of, you know, like completely reorient the, reoriented the entire company towards AI, make changes.

OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund Mar 23, 2026 · 4 mentions

AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay Mar 16, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 39:10 Alex Kantrowitz Which Amazon and McKinsey are finding out.
  • ▶ 47:11 Alex Kantrowitz Well, maybe, maybe, uh, maybe McKinsey can come up with some ideas for this, but I don't know if I would trust them after what I just saw. 5 times in the scene

How Google DeepMind Operates & Experiments — With Lila Ibrahim and James Manyika Feb 18, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:26 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, Sundar spent time at McKinsey and this is sort of like a McKinsey style approach to like reorg, centralize, and then work with the groups. 2 times in the scene

Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles Feb 9, 2026 · 4 mentions

Is Google's Gemini Winning?, Thinking Machines Drama, Claude Cowork’s Potential Jan 19, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 14:58 Ranjan Roy I still like the idea that it's Sundar's McKinsey days that taught him the key to organizational, like, uh, transformation and reorgs and the move to bring in deep mind and like, you know, like actually centralized, like the AI development… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:17 Ranjan Roy Sundar's still got some reorg McKinsey style work to do here.

Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit Nov 24, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 20:52 Ranjan Roy Like, this is, like, a McKinsey consultant's, like, dream here, and I'm wondering, actually, I wonder if, like, there's no way one of the management consultants came up with that, I think, but, but, like, that exactly, like,
  • ▶ 45:46 Alex Kantrowitz I think Sundar originally was at McKinsey before. 3 times in the scene

Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 · 1 mention

Is AI Really Taking Our Jobs? — With Noah Smith Jul 2, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 2:47 Alex Kantrowitz We just had a McKinsey report come across the big technology discord that I found interesting, where the consulting firm finds that nearly eight in 10 companies have deployed generative AI in some form, but roughly the same percentage… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:35 Noah Smith And then, so, so when companies like McKinsey come along and they say, how many, which jobs are vulnerable to AI? 2 times in the scene

The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch Jun 30, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:07 Alex Kantrowitz They have some set of like base foundational model that they've built off of open source and they replace maybe the McKinsey's of the world.

Did Klarna Really Automate 700 Jobs With AI? — With Sebastian Siemiatkowski Jul 17, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 53:07 Sebastian Siemiatkowski but there was a McKinsey study that said that in the US there are about 20% of the consumers are what they call self-aware avoiders.

What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About Jul 3, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:51 Alex Kantrowitz That basically like if this technology could potentially like level cities within a few years, then like, I don't know, McKinsey is going to definitely get in there and try to contract with GPT for what do you, what do you think about that…
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