YouTube, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where YouTube comes up
What comes after smartphones, with Evan Spiegel of Snap
- ▶ 37:55 Evan Spiegel You know, the, the, the baby, for example, the two-year-old, like, we, we let him watch YouTube when he's getting his hair cut.
The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai
- ▶ 4:33 Sundar Pichai YouTube came out, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:35 Sundar Pichai Like, I mean, YouTube has done well since TikTok and Instagram has, you know, so you can, I can give many examples.
- ▶ 12:38 John Collison You know, Google has up and down the stack, whether it be applications, or models, or TPUs, or whatever, um, as well as, you know, Waymo, and YouTube, and all the cool bets. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:10 John Collison In Google's case, the projects are extremely heterogeneous, where it's like, ok, we can give the YouTube team more funding so they can go, you know, improve the recommender algorithm, and therefore time on site increases, and so does…
Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
- ▶ 1:07:31 John Collison I feel like one of the, um, most satisfying genres of YouTube video to watch is, uh, people who laser aircraft, but they are mistakenly lasering a police helicopter. 2 times in the scene
Ben Thompson from Stratechery on AI ads, the end of SaaS, and the future of media
- ▶ 7:10 John Collison I agree there's kind of a knee-jerk skepticism of ads, and like, look, you know, when I, I'm a YouTube premium subscriber, when I see someone, uh, you know, uh, watch a video without premium, I'm aghast. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:09 Ben Thompson I think the ideal outcome for Google is they never put ads in Gemini, but they understand so much about you because of what you do in Gemini, that they can then manifest that through ads on YouTube, through ads on Google, through ads on…
- ▶ 23:05 Ben Thompson It is a harvesting, and YouTube, you know, the same sort of idea.
- ▶ 1:22:13 Ben Thompson This is what YouTube is. 3 times in the scene
Stablecoin special: Zach Abrams (Bridge) and Henri Stern (Privy)
- ▶ 1:03:38 John Collison And, you know, Google is a good example of YouTube is now a fifty billion dollar revenue business, and I believe they literally had no revenue. 2 times in the scene
Tobi Lütke is still captivated by internet commerce, 20 years later
- ▶ 39:05 John Collison It benefits all the Shopify merchants, just like, you know, we had a new set of content creators emerge on YouTube that effectively compete with kind of TV. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:29 Tobi Lütke Cultivating a rare skill to, um, spending a couple of weekends with YouTube.
A conversation with Lovable CEO Anton Osika
- ▶ 5:46 Anton Osika Uh, and that takes a bit of figuring out or watching a YouTube video, for example.
A Cheeky Pint with serial entrepreneur Pieter Levels (@levelsio)
- ▶ 3:00 Pieter Levels Um, so when YouTube started, um, monetizing videos, um, I was uploading my music already. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:12 John Collison I've watched the YouTube videos.