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Building One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies | Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabs
- ▶ 1:48 Mati Staniszewski And my co-founder was at Google and he, he did a lot of the text, uh, models for knowledge graph.
- ▶ 7:04 Mati Staniszewski Um, and then you had the kind of Google translate version of that, but all of the components to do dub were, were not good enough yet.
- ▶ 56:22 Mati Staniszewski So over my times upon year, my co-founder's time at Google, we would do, start doing a hack weekend projects together.
How to Dominate for Decades | Doug Leone, Sequoia Capital
- ▶ 24:20 Doug Leone Nvidia, or, uh, or Google, or Meta, if you had a little sniffer that this thing had essentially an unbounded market for many years, you should never sell a share. 3 times in the scene
Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
- ▶ 14:30 Sam Altman There was DeepMind, one or two others that I can think of.
- ▶ 57:22 Sam Altman He's like, the power of this is the power of the Google text box. 2 times in the scene
Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber
- ▶ 1:00:33 Travis Kalanick That's when we brought Google and, um, 2 times in the scene
The Comms Strategist Behind Anduril, Shopify & Cognition | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- ▶ 8:08 Lulu Cheng Meservey So I ended up in Washington, D.C., doing what felt like a pretty close thing, which was political risk, i.e., if Google is entering into Egypt and there's a coup, what do you do?
- ▶ 12:02 Lulu Cheng Meservey That's when Google had employees walking out protesting any involvement in Project Maven with the DoD, and
Founder of CAA Michael Ovitz: "I Just Knew I Was Going to Outwork Every One of Them"
- ▶ 16:01 Michael Ovitz It's insane how many times I go to my phone and go to Claude or OpenAI or Google to get answers on things and get a deep dive in a nanosecond.
Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
- ▶ 12:14 Micky Malka If we start with, with Ryan from Visa, the word he defines token is different than the word that Sundar has for token at Google, or the different word that OpenAI has for token, or Antropic.
Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
- ▶ 3:45 Jonathan Ross Like, things where there's risk, you know, I'll spin up a, a server in GCP or AWS, and I'll just start building stuff.
- ▶ 12:05 Jonathan Ross Google, everyone has access to the code base.
- ▶ 29:45 Jonathan Ross The other thing that I did was I created Google TPU, and at Google, there was this time where I'd already moved over to Google X. 2 times in the scene
The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
- ▶ 1:35 David Senra So like, I spent some time with Demis from D-Mind, and what was interesting is, I, I, I draw a lot of, um, like similarities between you two, because I've also spent some time with you, and I was like, well, they're both really smart,…
- ▶ 32:44 Scott Wu Find an error, you Google error, find some message on Stack Overflow or whatever, or you ask ChatGTB and it tells you, okay, here's, here's what you should try.
- ▶ 35:18 Scott Wu Google DeepMind or Google Brain, I mean, these are obviously, you know, more, more than a decade old already.
- ▶ 35:18 Scott Wu Google DeepMind or Google Brain, I mean, these are obviously, you know, more, more than a decade old already.
- ▶ 51:51 Scott Wu And so 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… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:30 David Senra 10 years ago, it was like, Google will do this, or Facebook will do this.
The Company Apple Couldn't Kill | Spotify Co-CEO Gustav Söderström
- ▶ 41:18 Gustav Söderström And then what happened was DeepMind started doing these, uh, reinforcement learning based things. 2 times in the scene
Bootstrapping a Business to $5 Billion in Free Cash Flow | AppLovin’s Adam Foroughi
- ▶ 5:40 Adam Foroughi What was challenging for VCs back then was, well, Google and Facebook and Amazon are in this space, and
- ▶ 15:00 Adam Foroughi Google had bought this company AdMob in 2008 for, I think it was nearly a billion dollars, huge transaction back then. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:54 Adam Foroughi We were unable to convince advertisers to share that data with us, even though they were sharing it with Facebook and Google, they would not share it with us.
- ▶ 1:18:04 Adam Foroughi Google, part of their business says this, this is entirely what we're focused on.
Roblox’s David Baszucki Built the Biggest Playground on Earth
- ▶ 15:54 David Baszucki They said, look, just go buy 50 users a day from Google.
- ▶ 27:32 David Baszucki And so I would say our, we were great partners with AWS and GCP and others.
- ▶ 1:08:54 David Senra So we go back to you guys are buying 50 users a day from Google.
- ▶ 1:25:31 David Baszucki They can use that sponsored thing, just like when we bought traffic from Google.
Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 1:13:24 Evan Spiegel The company, but our advertising mix almost looked like the inverse of like a Google or a Meta. 3 times in the scene
Tony Xu of DoorDash: Surviving 1,000 Days of Startup Hell
- ▶ 1:07 Tony Xu And the only way you can, in which you can order is you can read through the menus, you can call a Google voice number that would ring the cell phones of the four founders, and one of us would pick up, we would take your order, place the…
- ▶ 15:04 David Senra You have a Google voice number.
- ▶ 26:03 Tony Xu A company like a Google or somebody else has organized for you because it's all physical information, and it's also changing all the time.
- ▶ 50:16 Tony Xu So, um, you know, one of the things that I think, um, Google, uh, you know, so brilliantly did was they did organize a lot of the information on the internet, and they made it searchable, you know, to everybody.
- ▶ 1:15:25 David Senra Yeah, I feel like that is such a different person than the software engineer at Google.
How Elon Thinks
- ▶ 1:25:24 unnamed speaker We'd have search engines without Google.
Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
- ▶ 0:48 Marc Andreessen And so I go out under the table, and I Google, and I'm like, is this a problem? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:07 Marc Andreessen They were like, whatever, Google or OpenAI or whatever, you know, comp you want to make.
- ▶ 1:32:53 Marc Andreessen So this is like Google times 10 or something.
Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
- ▶ 21:52 Brian Armstrong But there's this great speech if you, if you Google Lee Kuan Yew, um, iron, iron in veins.
- ▶ 36:03 Brian Armstrong I tried to, I tried to recruit him to like leave Google and be co-founder with me.
- ▶ 53:23 Brian Armstrong I've tried to take bits and like parts from Google, Amazon, um,
- ▶ 1:00:35 Brian Armstrong Um, 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,…
- ▶ 1:00:53 Brian Armstrong And on paper, he was like, this guy who worked at Google, he's like, he'd run a big team of like, 20 or 30 people.
- ▶ 1:09:02 Brian Armstrong I'd say even at Google, probably Eric Schmidt and Larry kind of played that role, right?
- ▶ 1:42:22 Brian Armstrong Gemini's doing a bunch of stuff with Google.
Jason Fried: Your Only Competition Is Your Costs
- ▶ 1:06:28 Jason Fried I blame Google.
Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopify
- ▶ 1:37:01 Tobi Lütke So if I go to Silicon Valley, I can't pay what Google pays potentially, or like someone else makes up for their skills issue by just overcompensating.
My Conversation With Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Founder of Colossus & Positive Sum | David Senra
- ▶ 1:53:36 Patrick O'Shaughnessy It's this art, this beautiful archetype of older guy from just working with a couple executives, and he worked with Google and, you know, um, some of the most famous companies, but was apparently like transformative in the lives of these…
CAA Co-founder Michael Ovitz: Failure Is Not an Option
- ▶ 50:22 Michael Ovitz Probably 20 notes about things that I have seen on the internet, on Instagram, on, ah, perplexity, on OpenAI, on Google, that have come up in other searches, so I saw a new set of headphones that were wildly differently designed.
How Brad Jacobs Built 8 Billion-Dollar Companies
- ▶ 1:38:20 David Senra It's like, no, they're all tech companies.
Daniel Ek, Spotify | David Senra
- ▶ 47:33 David Senra And they, they talked, they were comparing and contrasting the way, like, Google would make products versus how Apple did when Steve Jobs was in charge. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:35:58 Daniel Ek And the amazing thing about early stage entrepreneurship is, uh, you know, we, we talked about this Google example of trying to earn different colors.
- ▶ 1:47:11 David Senra It's like, and you can Google, like, who owns it?