Google, every mention
23 scenes (2025), the whole family · ← back to Google
tap a year for its mentions
every year 2025 anyone Ted Seides 115Josh Wolfe 21Tom Russo 20Chris Sacca 20Ashby Monk 17Chris Dixon 16Ben Inker 9Aydin Senkut 9Jonathan Tepper 8Ash Fontana 8
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Google comes up
Top 5 of 2025: #4: Alex Sacerdote
- ▶ 26:44 Alex Sacerdote It's a lot like internet one point O when you had seven or eight search engines, and then later Google came out and crushed them all.
- ▶ 39:00 Alex Sacerdote Google's doing it, using a massive self-learning LLM to target 30,000 times more effectively than the old CPU-based systems.
Matthew Dicks – Storytelling Mastery (EP.477)
- ▶ 23:51 Matthew Dicks Within six months, I found myself working with Microsoft and Salesforce and Slack and Google.
Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
- ▶ 38:27 Josh Wolfe One of them in preview is memory, and one is Google. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:51 Josh Wolfe Google, 20 years ago, looked at Microsoft's main cash cow of Office, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Outlook, and they gave it all away for free, because they could, because they have this advertising model in search.
- ▶ 40:03 Josh Wolfe Google can give away Gemini, which was the laughing stock when it was called Bard about two years ago.
- ▶ 40:13 Josh Wolfe Young companies run on G Suite.
- ▶ 40:15 Josh Wolfe I allow it and trust it to search my Google Drive and my files and my Gmail and so forth.
- ▶ 44:49 Josh Wolfe He goes to Meta, builds a group, has fifty million a year of budget, builds a twelve-person team, is competing with AlphaFold DeepMind, publishes a paper on protein structure prediction. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:55 Josh Wolfe Compute, you used to have to go, have a data center, then you went to co-located, then you went to cloud, going from an CapEx decision to an OpEx decision, treating it like utility that you can get off of Amazon or Azure, Microsoft or…
Mason Morfit and Rob Hale – Quiet Activism at ValueAct (EP.462)
- ▶ 28:17 Mason Morfit And so with Google, they went after Bing because that was hot, and so they poured tons of money into these initiatives that were not accurately tracked by the existing financial reporting systems of Microsoft, but you could triangulate… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:43 Mason Morfit To the tune of four or five, six billion dollars a year that might be better spent driving Office three 65 in Azure instead of trying to chase the iPhone or chase the Google search dream.
Jack Kokko – Building the Google of Finance at AlphaSense (EP.461)
- ▶ 0:38 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Jack Koko, co-founder and CEO of AlphaSense, the market intelligence platform often described as Google for finance.
- ▶ 5:30 Jack Kokko And back in those days, you already started to have technology for consumers where I had Google to search the internet.
- ▶ 5:58 Jack Kokko In the early days, we even called it, I forgot if it was us calling it, or clients first calling it, Google for finance, or Google for analysts. 2 times in the scene
Michael Ovitz – Reinventing Talent and Building Momentum at Treville (EP.455)
- ▶ 24:45 Michael Ovitz There was no Google.
- ▶ 40:12 Michael Ovitz He had built a really nice little credit business, but when I started Googling him, he had very few hits and
Friends Reunion 3 – Five Allocators Riff on Investing (EP.454)
- ▶ 42:05 Jon Harris Somebody said if you're over 50, you basically use ChatGPT as an enhanced Google, and I think it's great.
Ben Forman – Unlocking Blockchain's Potential (EP.441)
- ▶ 41:17 Ben Forman So you've seen a lot of experiments here, a company that is basically paying people to attach a dash cam onto their automobile, and drive around and collect data in real time, similar to what Google Maps would create on what's happening on… 2 times in the scene
Anthony Pompliano – Building Influence and Capital to Live an Extraordinary Life (EP.430)
- ▶ 15:00 Anthony Pompliano They flew me out there to do the final interviews, and on the way to the airport, I bought on Kindle the art of product management, which I had Googled around and found that was the best product management book, and I read the full thing…
- ▶ 49:10 Anthony Pompliano So I always laugh that Google, they just got a little bit more money offered to them early.
Mitchell Green - Lead Edge of Harnessing Networks (EP.429)
- ▶ 21:45 Mitchell Green It's going to be the next Google. 2 times in the scene
Striking Oil – CrownRock by Lime Rock Capital (EP.428)
- ▶ 4:25 Ted Seides When you think about the greatest private equity deals of all time, names like Google, Facebook, Uber, Dell, and Hilton might come to mind.