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7 statements across 7 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Feb 15, 2026 by Jason Fried · said 68 times in 23 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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tap a year for its mentions
2026 60 mentions in 19 episodes 3 per episode
- The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
- Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
- Bootstrapping a Business to $5 Billion in Free Cash Flow | AppLovin’s Adam Foroughi
- Tony Xu of DoorDash: Surviving 1,000 Days of Startup Hell
- Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
- Roblox’s David Baszucki Built the Biggest Playground on Earth
- Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
- Building One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies | Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabs
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Google, oldest first
Feb 15, 2026 negative
Fried: Apple, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Ruined Email With Neglected Products
“I blame Apple. I blame Google. I blame Yahoo. I blame Microsoft for making shit email products that they just don't care about. Now, they've started to care more about them, but they didn't care about them for a long time, and everybody knows that nobody cared…”
Mar 1, 2026 positive
Armstrong: Coinbase's first employee hire was former lumberjack Olaf Carlson-Wee
“Actually the very first hire at Coinbase was this guy Olaf Carlson Wee, outside of Fred and I as the co-founders, and we were trying to hire this customer, someone to come in to run customer support, because of the backlog I mentioned, and I remember it came d…”
Mar 29, 2026
Xu: DoorDash's Moat Is Structuring Physical-World Data That Google Hasn't Mapped
“A lot of what's difficult about DoorDash is we're trying to build a structured data set in a world that is chaos. That's the physical world. One of the reasons why there's all these sources for mistakes, for delays, for costs that ultimately, you know, yield i…”
Apr 26, 2026 neutral
Roblox's entire social graph traces back to 1,500 initial Google ad users
“If we were able to, like, reverse engineer the whole social graph tree all the way back to the starting of Roblox, we'd probably see a one month period, you know, times 50 users, times 30, probably see 1500 users that were saw some ad, like an online building …”
May 3, 2026 positive
Foroughi: Only AppLovin, Meta, and Google have mastered true advertiser arbitrage
“And if you do that, and what I call performance marketing is that make the advertiser an arbitrage. Very few people define performance marketing as that, and very few companies have executed. Facebook's done a fantastic job of it. Google, part of their busines…”
Jun 28, 2026 positive
Devin dynamically routes tasks across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and internal models
“Devin, rather than being pegged to one model and saying, oh, we're only going to serve you GPT for this, or we're only going to serve you OPFIS for this, Devin can use any of the different models it has in its arsenal, which include all of these models from An…”
Aug 30, 2026
Sequoia historically owned 20% of Nvidia and 10% of Google
“And you know, we own 20% of NVIDIA. Think about that. I mean, you know, we own 10% of Google. And there's many others, you know. Apple. Are you kidding me? We were the first investor of Apple, in Apple. Cisco. We own a quarter of Cisco systems.”