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Gabbard: Google shut down my campaign AdSense during 2020 debate peak
“I ended up being the most searched candidate of the night, that debate night, which is what I had hoped for, and, ah, right at that time of peak interest, Google shut down our AdSense account with no warning, no explanation, no ability.”
Gabbard: Studies show Gmail sends most Republican campaign emails to spam
“Studies are done how Google in particular, but essentially big tech, Has been proven to divert the vast majority of, you know, if you're a Republican running for office and you're sending out a, you know, a bulk email, most of those emails for conservatives Re…”
Sanchez: Harvard and Google credentials have almost zero correlation with job fit
“Resumes and history has so little correlation to good and a fit. There's almost no correlation. And it used to be that if you worked at some of these big companies, you're like, There's a pretty high indicator that you might continue to have like a certain out…”
McDonald: MIT study shows AI essay writing reduces brain activation
“It's kind of new, but it's a study out of MIT that's shown that, okay, they had people Use AI versus Google versus nothing to write essays, and what they found was that over time it led people that used AI specifically like less engagement in their brain, less…”
McCord: Existing AI provides decades of profitable deployment even without new advances
“Technology, even if it's immediately available, takes a long time to like propagate. In other words, you could stop right now. Google just did its big announcement, like stop, pause, you know, nothing else. And we would have, A few decades of like very profita…”
Galloway: Google's existence is a direct result of Microsoft antitrust action
“So if there hadn't been a DOJ ruling against Microsoft in 1999, we'd all be saying, I don't know, bang it. Google is a function of antitrust.”
Zimmer: Big tech ad revenue completely dwarfs legacy Hollywood studio profits
“When you look at ad revenue from YouTube or Meta or Google or Amazon, you know, which is anywhere from, you know, forty billion to two hundred and ninety five billion, as compared to ad revenue for
You know, Warners or Comcast or whatever, which is like eight …”
Galloway: Missing the top seven tech stocks leaves investor returns flat
“If you don't own one of those seven stocks, you've underperformed the market and your returns are probably flat.”
Sanchez: 40% of VC dollars go straight to big tech ad platforms
“So, 40 cents of every dollar of venture capital funding goes to where? Does anybody know? It goes to the big four. That's ads, right? It goes to Google. It goes to Amazon. All of the venture dollars go to getting distribution.”
Gary Vee predicts Meta, Google, and X will enter live shopping
“I expect Meta, Google, Twitter, everybody to get into this game. Live social shopping is the underpriced attention.”
Altucher: Google Manually Replaced His Post With Suicide Hotline
“There was a point where, because I wrote about this, there was a point where if you Googled, how do I kill myself, I was like the number one search result on Google, and then enough people complained that Google had to manually put in the national suicide hotl…”
Altucher: Cold-emailing daily idea lists led to speaking gigs at Google, Facebook, and Airbnb
“And I've been doing this now, writing 10 ideas a day for over 20 years. I've, because I send many of them out, I've been invited to speak at Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, I spoke at Airbnb's main conference. I've been out to Quora and met, met all of them, and j…”