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Rabois: Meta, Google, and Apple cannot accurately assess undiscovered talent
“So you've got to go find people who haven't yet proven what they can do that these large organizations think meta, Think Google, think Apple, think Amazon, think Microsoft, or even these days open AI. They don't know how to assess these people.”
Airbnb Boasts Higher Free Cash Flow Margins Than Apple or Google
“I didn't have an exact reference point for is that a lot or a little, but he basically shared that on a percentage basis, Airbnb is more efficient than Apple or Google when it comes to how much cash they actually generate for how much revenue they do as a busi…”
Siroker: Early Google promoted engineers for technical sophistication over customer solutions
“When I was there early on, a lot of people valued. You got promoted by the sophistication of your technology, not by the problem it actually solves for a customer.”
Silicon Valley cultures split between lifestyle perks and mission-driven execution
“And I think there's like, there's, like, there's basically two bifurcated cultures out here in Silicon Valley. There's the culture of like, you know, Google, Facebook, Pinterest, that like, you know, we're here for you. We'll pay you as much money as possible,…”
Girouard: Guessing Executive Reactions Creates Overhead; Ask Them Upfront
“The one I see the most, and this includes at Google too, is that people hem and haw over what the founder or CEO will think every step of the way. Just get their input first. Don't get your work reversed later on. What a founder might think is classic cognitiv…”
Parr: Direct web traffic is most valuable, while social traffic is worst
“Direct means that someone's typing a website to their URL, and that's the most important, because if you really love a website, like Netflix, you're gonna type in netflix.com. Search is really important, because if you rank high in Google, that means someone's…”
Parr: Tech product review affiliate models have much higher margins than physical goods
“I've learned that it's an incredibly profitable business model if you can rank high in Google and refer people to a tech product that costs hundreds of dollars. The reason being is it's a tech product versus... A consumer, like a deodorant or some type of cons…”
Swanson: Thumbtack search traffic fell to zero after Google de-indexed it
“And I went to, you know, Google analytics and our traffic had not fallen by 10 or 20%, but a hundred, zero. And we were de-indexed. We were completely removed from Google.”
Noom was the fourth app on the Android app store
“He said, Noom's first product, way before my time, was the fourth app in the Android store when it launched, and as a result, got a lot of organic downloads. Artem had a connection at Google at the time, which helped getting placed.”
Morning Brew's First Copywriter Left to Write Jokes for Google Home
“After a few months on the job, this person, I'll never forget it, pulled me out of our WeWork office to just a side table in the main area of WeWork, and they told me that they would be leaving to join Google, and they were going to be joining Google to write …”