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Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34)
- ▶ 4:53 Ted Seides He's been a successful serial entrepreneur with executive experience at Google and Facebook,
- ▶ 8:05 Avichal Garg So I went to Google and I worked on search ranking and ads ranking. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:24 Avichal Garg But Facebook and Google, the engineers ultimately decide.
- ▶ 44:10 Avichal Garg Running your business day to day is going to be different to community building and customer acquisition, which is very different in this space because many of the traditional customer acquisition channels you can't use like Facebook and…
Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- ▶ 6:59 Chris Dixon So web one, think back to the nineties, it was an amazing thing that you could go to Google or some other website and type a word and get all this information. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:44 Chris Dixon And I take all of my inbound links and Google SEO and everything else with me.
- ▶ 13:33 Chris Dixon That's 80% of the quote machine learning people at Google and Facebook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:30 Chris Dixon People at Google and Facebook, in my experience, just don't get this stuff.
Olaf Carlson-Wee – The Future of Crypto (EP.257, Crypto for Institutions 2 – EP.04)
- ▶ 24:51 Olaf Carlson-Wee When you hold Google stock, it's not an asset that gets sort of activated and used in a system, whereas in a crypto asset, it really is a useful asset a lot of the time.
- ▶ 31:52 Olaf Carlson-Wee Could we build an open source Google that is competitive with all of the proprietary AI and machine learning algorithms that Google and Facebook and the other big tech companies have by using an open source protocol to reward people that… 2 times in the scene
Ben Forman – Opportunities in DeFi (EP.256, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.03)
- ▶ 6:02 Ben Forman Uh, so I Googled game theory, and I found out that it was the study of how and why people make decisions in competitive situations.
- ▶ 9:18 Ben Forman I had a roommate who was working at Google, who's a dear friend of mine to this day.
Stephen McKeon – NFTs and the Consumer in Web3 (EP.255, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.02)
- ▶ 17:02 Stephen McKeon Facebook, Google, Netflix.
- ▶ 38:10 Stephen McKeon It's the reason that somebody's personal webpage that gets a few hits a day is not very valuable, and google.com is obviously enormously valuable.
Billy Libby – Disruptive Venture Funding at Upper90 (Capital Allocators, EP.251)
- ▶ 11:03 Billy Libby If my mom is buying a hundred shares of Google, she has no view of the market at this moment or no size behind your order.
- ▶ 22:44 Billy Libby If you're an app developer on Apple or Google, the thing I like about what we're doing is like, I say, what's new is old. 3 times in the scene
Steve Drobny – Where the World is Going at Clocktower Group (Manager Meeting, 30)
- ▶ 35:16 Steve Drobny Amazon and Google and things that aren't really ESG.
Andrew Milgram – Mid-Market Distressed Investing at Marblegate (Manager Meetings EP.29)
- ▶ 24:52 Andrew Milgram So we don't get the advantage of opening up the paper and saying to ourselves, you know, I, I think this Google thing has got legs.
Sebastian Mallaby – The Making of the New Future in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 14 (Capital Allocators, EP.245)
- ▶ 32:49 Sebastian Mallaby He doesn't say Yahoo or Google or even Stripe.
Steve Papa – Entrepreneur's Perspective on Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 13 (Capital Allocators, EP.244)
- ▶ 8:31 Steve Papa And this was before there was a Google.
- ▶ 25:12 Steve Papa Microsoft wanted an answer to Google's domination of search, so Bomber insisted on acquiring Fast, and when they did that, obviously Oracle was like, we got to understand what's going on here, and so they literally sat with us probably the…
Arjun Sethi – A Technology Company that Deploys Capital at Tribe, Venture is Eating the Investment World 10 (Capital Allocators, EP. 240)
- ▶ 9:15 Arjun Sethi They went from Yahoo to Google to a couple other places. 2 times in the scene
Annie Lamont – A Lifetime in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 9 (Capital Allocators, EP. 238)
- ▶ 13:56 Annie Lamont If we hadn't had a mania, we wouldn't have funded things like Google and Amazon, some of the great companies of today.
Marko Papic – Geopolitical Shock in a Multi-Polar World (Capital Allocators, EP.237)
- ▶ 11:28 Marko Papic I forgot in which media outlet, but you can Google it.
Josh Wolfe – Caution and Innovation at Lux Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 8 (Capital Allocators, EP.236)
- ▶ 25:03 Josh Wolfe The interesting thing about Facebook is Facebook had a very deep motivation to not be beholden to Google or Apple so that they could access you or you could access the internet. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:07 Josh Wolfe You have people that were born and raised in Nigeria and Ghana and Kenya who have gone to Silicon Valley and trained at Stripe and Google and Facebook and Amazon and are coming back, and they're coming back
Joelle Kayden – Canvassing the Landscape at Accolade Partners, Venture is Eating the Investment World 7 (Capital Allocators, EP.235)
- ▶ 25:28 Joelle Kayden Yeah, I think venture capitalists will tell you that the team that you back matters the most, and there are extraordinary numbers of very talented teams coming out of large, successful technology companies, whether they're Stripe, or…
Aydin Senkut – Tenacious Sourcing and Founder Support at Felicis, Venture is Eating the Investment World 6 (Capital Allocators, EP.234)
- ▶ 5:46 Ted Seides Experience as the first international product manager at Google, and transition into angel investing and founding Felicis.
- ▶ 12:59 Ted Seides and you found your way to Google early on. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:18 Ted Seides So I'm curious when you got through those years at Google, what was your decision process at that point in time when you left of what to do next and why you decided to leave and move on? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:13 Aydin Senkut I just want to tell you that everybody thought for the longest time, Googles and Facebooks can only happen in Silicon Valley, but very quickly it became more democratic and international. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:39 Aydin Senkut And I saw something that I saw exactly at Google, exactly at 50 people at Google, Larry said, you know what, we need to move even faster, and if we only put engineers on projects as they become relevant, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:58 Aydin Senkut He's like, from now on your Google research, you're not beholden to anyone.
- ▶ 1:00:25 Aydin Senkut The first person is Omid Kurdestani, one of the most formative Google execs. 3 times in the scene
Ali Hamed – Novel Venture Investing at CoVenture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 5 (Capital Allocators, EP.233)
Fabrice Grinda – Canvassing Seed Stage Marketplaces at FJ Labs, Venture is Eating the Investment World 4 (Capital Allocators, EP.232)
- ▶ 1:02:03 Fabrice Grinda And at the same time, the web today is controlled by these massive intermediaries, the Googles, the Apples of the world, the Facebooks who take their
Sean O'Sullivan – Start-up Development at SOSV, Venture is Eating the Investment World 3 (Capital Allocators, EP.231)
- ▶ 13:48 Ted Seides And where does that company sit relative to maybe more commonly today you think of Waze and Google Maps?
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- ▶ 14:58 Ben Gilbert You can scope Google searches by date, and you can scope it by all kinds of stuff, by file type.
- ▶ 38:30 Ted Seides What's been the place in this ecosystem for all of these technologists that have done incredibly well because they were early at Google or Facebook or Amazon and they have capital and they want to be involved.
- ▶ 52:11 Ben Gilbert Google, enormous market.
Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques – Harlem Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.24)
- ▶ 13:13 Henri-Pierre Jacques Jared texted his roommate, who was at Google at the time, and within 40 minutes, 50 minutes, we had 50,000 dollars across our friends.
Bill Trenchard - First Round Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.23)
- ▶ 47:51 Bill Trenchard They may have been at Google or Facebook or somewhere like that, and they might have a small scout check that they can write, or they want to write a personal check, and that's totally fine with us.
Chas Cocke - From Allocator to Manager (Capital Allocators, EP.224)
- ▶ 49:52 Chas Cocke I don't have to pick whether Google's going to beat Facebook and building the metaverse.
Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain - Multicoin Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.20)
- ▶ 1:10:17 Kyle Samani With pristine, which was Google launched this glass thing.
- ▶ 1:10:17 Kyle Samani With pristine, which was Google launched this glass thing.
Jordi Visser – Analytics and AQ at Weiss (Capital Allocators, EP.221)
- ▶ 32:24 Jordi Visser Right now, 18% technology without the F-A-A-M-G, but when you add Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google as a separate group, that's about 23% of the S&P.
- ▶ 46:18 Jordi Visser I don't envision this to be like the tech boom with Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and their ability to dominate the software and, and smartphone world in terms of getting these big things in web too.
Satya Patel – Homebrew (Manager Meetings, EP.18)
- ▶ 11:30 Satya Patel We met in the relatively early days of Google, worked side by side on the product team there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:17 Satya Patel Gokul is a longtime product executive at DoorDash and Square and at Facebook, but he and I worked together at Google and he gave me tremendous responsibility paired with tremendous support in the early days of Google. 2 times in the scene
Savneet Singh – The Operator/Investor whose Software is Feeding the World (Capital Allocators, EP.220)
- ▶ 20:56 Savneet Singh And one that, you know, you go to the offices of the other company, you feel like you're at Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:59 Savneet Singh We've got people that left Google from Uber from blacks.
- ▶ 57:14 Savneet Singh He's like, yeah, but you're not running Google.
Rashmi Kwatra – Sixteenth Street Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.17)
- ▶ 20:08 Rashmi Kwatra Print Street on the, on Google or Yahoo at that time.
Stefan Kaluzny – Sycamore Partners [Manager Meetings, EP.16]
- ▶ 42:13 Stefan Kaluzny Paid search of Google and, you know, God forbid Yahoo and other things of years and years ago.
Daniel Graña – Janus Henderson Investors Emerging Markets Equity (Manager Meetings, EP.13)
- ▶ 27:54 Daniel Graña And so we can have that debate that where was Google trading?
- ▶ 37:56 Daniel Graña There's an outsized, outperformance by the likes of Google and Apple that have sort of skewed US equity returns.
Jonathan Lewinsohn – Diameter Capital Partners (Manager Meetings, EP.05)
- ▶ 59:56 Jonathan Lewinsohn And he uses a lot of Facebook and Google data that he was given to analyze like really interesting things, such as how weather impacts people. 2 times in the scene
Eli Casdin – Casdin Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.02)
- ▶ 13:36 Eli Casdin Per se, but Alliance Bernstein, we were the top shareholder in Intel and Google and Amazon, and so I could pick up the phone and call these firms, and I remember calling Intel, and I said, are you guys thinking about genomics?
Katy Milkman – How to Change (Capital Allocators, EP.199)
- ▶ 15:21 Katy Milkman So I was giving a talk at Google about some of my work on how we could nudge people to make better financial decisions, better decisions about their health, and I got this question that was so, I thought, important and unstudied as far as… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:47 Katy Milkman So I did this experiment with Google, with a collaborator, John Beshears of Harvard Business School, and a few other folks who were involved as well. 2 times in the scene
Alex Rodriguez – Business after Baseball (Capital Allocators, EP.198)
- ▶ 25:53 Alex Rodriguez There's a few things, you know, it's like, you know, algorithm and Google, like you see things that just pop up or in your Instagram, there's a certain kind of feel you get.
Ashby Monk – Innovation in Institutional Portfolios (Capital Allocators, EP.196)
- ▶ 43:21 Ashby Monk And with math, Google indexed the world of opportunities for us. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:46 Ashby Monk We've got Google map functionality of the routing and the destination.
Dan Ariely – The Human Capital Factor (Capital Allocators, EP.195)
- ▶ 38:16 Dan Ariely There are big differences about people care, and we can all imagine how people who care at Google are going to create a bigger impact, but no, people who care, it would manifest everywhere.
- ▶ 39:40 Dan Ariely What does it mean to work in Google or Facebook right now when we question their role in the destruction of democracy and all kinds of other things?
Cade Massey – People Analytics in Investing and the NFL (Capital Allocators, EP.190)
- ▶ 4:59 Ted Seides Along the way, we touch on stories from his work with Google, Wharton's MBA admissions, and Teach for America.
- ▶ 7:31 Cade Massey Google was ground zero and the tech world really kind of bought into this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:25 Cade Massey As a matter of fact, there's a conference room at Google. 2 times in the scene
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 11:03 Jeff Hausenbold In that role, I also became Google's first customer in the world. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:58 Jeff Hausenbold Google, or Uber, or Shutterfly, or eBay, or Amazon, we take much more hands-on roles in advising, coaching, and being part of the growth of those companies.
Crypto for Institutions 3: Seth Ginns – Investing Beyond Bitcoin (Capital Allocators, EP.182)
- ▶ 12:58 Seth Ginns Amazon and Google and all of these big players fresh direct in certain markets. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:54 Seth Ginns So once I was invested in Coinbase, I set up a bunch of Google alerts.
- ▶ 26:00 Seth Ginns What's really cool is like in the future, we envision they'll get all of the benefits from these blockchains without having to know whether, do you know, if your video service is on AWS or Google cloud or Azure, it doesn't matter to you.
Crypto for Institutions 2 – Michael Sonnenshein – A Path to Entry (Capital Allocators, EP.181)
- ▶ 30:57 Michael Sonnenshein But when it would come time for them to figure out, well, what's my price target, or what do you mean there's no cash flows, and this is not Coca-Cola, this is not Google,
- ▶ 36:31 Michael Sonnenshein These are some of, if not the only digital asset-based securities out there, and so investors looking to allocate don't have many options of how to get Bitcoin or Ethereum exposure alongside Apple and Google and the other assets they own,…
Jennifer Prosek – Business Development and Leadership in a Virtual World (Capital Allocators, EP.177)
- ▶ 11:19 Jennifer Prosek I think everyone realized when you're virtual, your digital profile is probably the most important thing you have, so how are you showing up on Google? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:43 Jennifer Prosek So CRM and email marketing, and we've even seen a lot of firms adopting Google AdWords campaigns to create paid visibility online. 2 times in the scene
Private Equity Masters: Paul Salem – Providence Equity Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.175)
- ▶ 50:14 Paul Salem Chairman of the board of a amazing nonprofit called Europe and Europe takes inner city kids, urban young adults, and we get them jobs in places like Facebook, Google, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America.
- ▶ 59:01 Paul Salem It was a comparison shopping company, and one of my partners was excited about the deal, and right before it's closed, the company kind of got shut down by Google, and there's always Google risk, and we thought, boy, this is weird, 3 times in the scene
Fran Kinniry – The Comfort of Paradox at Vanguard Group (Capital Allocators, EP.173)
- ▶ 47:42 Fran Kinniry Meaning that anyone, you Ted, or anyone who wants to buy Apple, Google, whatever company, they have access to that. 2 times in the scene
Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- ▶ 36:14 Chris Dixon Compare that to if Google said we're going to have Google coin, okay?
- ▶ 1:04:37 Chris Dixon You're at whatever, you're at some fancy school, you're at a fancy company, you're at Google, and it's every time you go, your parents think it's great, and your friends think it's great, and wow, you go into some unnamed startup, it's…
Chamath Palihapitiya – The Social Capital Flywheel (Capital Allocators, EP.167)
- ▶ 11:24 Chamath Palihapitiya Now that has changed where there are so many entrepreneurs and it's so much easier now to be an entrepreneur because of the abstractions of iOS and Android and AWS and the ad buying you can do at scale on Facebook and Google.
- ▶ 58:33 Chamath Palihapitiya Amazon AWS, Apple's iOS, and Google's Android.
Joel Greenblatt – Common Sense for Value at Gotham Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.165)
- ▶ 36:25 Joel Greenblatt And so we have a tech guys who are very sophisticated, you know, one guy, one Google code jam, another one's MIT chess jam.
- ▶ 1:00:21 Joel Greenblatt Just Microsoft, Google, Amazon have to state 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:40 Joel Greenblatt Like I said, Google has certificate programs.
Shane Parrish – Learning to Learn at Farnam Street (Capital Allocators, EP.164)
- ▶ 12:57 Shane Parrish And back then, you could do that, and you could just sit in, and I approached people, and I started walking through my thinking with them, and just asking them to specifically poke holes in it, people that I respected in the agency, and I…
- ▶ 18:48 Shane Parrish And so if you think in computer science terms, direct memory is like searching Google with quotes.
Mike Trigg – Defying the Fade at WCM (Capital Allocators, EP.162)
- ▶ 20:15 Mike Trigg And if you look back in time, I mean, we were buying Dell instead of Apple, eBay instead of Amazon, Yahoo instead of Google.
- ▶ 40:21 Mike Trigg Google's infamous for unstructured time that they give developers to go work on pet projects and create things, and that's a huge part of their culture, and Canadian Pacific, which is a railroad that we've owned for a long time that is a… 2 times in the scene
Annie Duke – How to Decide (Capital Allocators, EP.156)
- ▶ 55:03 Ted Seides How do you more clearly define what is an appropriate category regime shift as opposed to just, well, if I say I'm a value investor and I love a growth stock, so it's one thing to say, I'm a value investor, I don't invest in Google, but… 2 times in the scene
Morgan Housel – The Psychology of Money (Capital Allocators, EP.155)
- ▶ 48:46 Morgan Housel Like in the last 10 years, it's been Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Netflix.
Matthew Granade – Inside Data Science at Point72 (First Meeting, EP.22)
- ▶ 48:01 Matthew Granade You want to think about Google.
Adam Fisher – Blending Global Macro and Real Estate at Commonwealth Asset Management (First Meeting, EP.21)
- ▶ 15:43 Adam Fisher And then the other thing obviously is the internet was pretty, you can Google literally everything, you know, you can type in the internet, how do you invest in real estate?
- ▶ 59:07 Adam Fisher It's better than Google.
Sustainable Investing 2: Liqian Ma – Allocator Perspective (Capital Allocators, EP.140)
Laurence Siegel – Current Myths and Long-Term Optimism (Capital Allocators, EP.137)
- ▶ 21:03 Larry Siegel Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google.
Ben Inker – Value Investing at GMO (First Meeting, EP.17)
- ▶ 31:39 Ben Inker Google has a great business. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:55 Ted Seides To what extent, when you have this growth, and we think of the tech giants, when you think of Google and advertising and obviously Amazon and commerce, even if growth slows down, whether it's a few years out or 15 or 20 years out, you end…