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Shopify: Tobias Lütke. How a snowboarder built a $150 billion business (2019) Jun 8, 2026 · 2 mentions

Advice Line with Miguel McKelvey of WeWork Mar 5, 2026 · 2 mentions

Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018) Jan 5, 2026 · 1 mention

Nuts.com: Jeff Braverman. From Corner Store to Snacktime Powerhouse Oct 27, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 25:28 Jeff Braverman I don't remember exactly when it was one of the first books about how to use Google AdWords. 4 times in the scene

Advice Line with John Zimmer of Lyft Oct 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:02 John Zimmer So I would, that's why, you know, the initial thought was run a few experiments with, with AdWords, Google AdWords, or some other product like that, or something on Amazon.

Advice Line with Andy Dunn of Bonobos Apr 17, 2025 · 1 mention

Advice Line with Jamie Siminoff of Ring Aug 22, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 40:28 Guy Raz 15 years ago, if you bought ad search on Google, like, you could really scale a business. 2 times in the scene

Advice Line with Pete Maldonado of Chomps May 2, 2024 · 1 mention

reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020) Dec 18, 2023 · 1 mention

Chomps: Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali Jan 30, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:24 Rashid Ali We started doing Facebook ads and a little bit of the paid search like Google ads.

Twitch: Emmett Shear Jul 18, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:37 Emmett Shear Well, the first thing we did was you just threw Google AdWords on the site, because that was the fastest way to get some money immediately.

Houzz: Adi Tatarko May 30, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:09 Adi Tatarko And, and then they reached out from Google and they said, why aren't you putting some Google ads there and monetizing it?

Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler Feb 7, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:12 Otis Chandler and I found that there was this new thing called Google ad platform, something like that was about to launch, but it was in private beta.

KAYAK: Paul English Sep 27, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 48:39 Paul English Just from word of mouth, I mean, believe it or not, in the early years of Kayak, it cost us about a dollar on average to buy someone to come to our website from us spending money on Google AdWords or other websites.
  • ▶ 1:05:01 Paul English Yeah, we basically manage every penny that your employees spend, whether they're spending money on Google AdWords, Amazon, AWS, or they're buying lunch for a client, or they're ordering supplies for the office.

Live From The HIBT Summit: Gary Vaynerchuk Aug 5, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:14 Guy Raz You got into Google AdWords, and I mean, and in a website where nobody was doing it, and, um, and then eventually, you know, YouTube, using YouTube as a, as a marketing tool for Wine Library TV, um, which really kind of transformed you…

Serial Entrepreneur: Gary Vaynerchuk Aug 2, 2021 · 1 mention

Casper: Philip Krim Jun 28, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:19 Philip Krim So, um, at the time, if, if you searched like Houston tow truck driver, um, you, you could click directly from that search using a Google ad and be connected to a local tow truck company.

Policygenius: Jennifer Fitzgerald May 24, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 53:58 Guy Raz Because they're just buying AdWords and things like that? 2 times in the scene

Atlassian: Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar Feb 8, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:20 Scott Farquhar Um, we were the very early days of internet marketing, and so we could buy, you know, Google AdWords, which were just new back then, and things that would now cost you 10 or 20 dollars for a click would cost us 10 or 20 cents, and I always…

How I Built Resilience: Sonia Gil of Fluenz Oct 22, 2020 · 1 mention

reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn May 25, 2020 · 2 mentions

Spindrift: Bill Creelman Jan 13, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:24 Guy Raz Because, like, imagine today, you would just have to put in some search terms into Facebook and, or, like, you know, AdWords and Google, and you could reach people, like, in an instant.

Shopify: Tobias Lütke Aug 5, 2019 · 2 mentions

Squarespace: Anthony Casalena Mar 4, 2019 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 13:47 Anthony Casalena And so I bought a bunch of Google AdWords. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:06 Anthony Casalena If I made 20 bucks on AdWords, I put 20 bucks back in AdWords. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:17 Anthony Casalena I'm like, that's our whole AdWords budget for, like, the whole month in how many podcast reads, and what's the audience, and are you sure?
  • ▶ 43:01 Anthony Casalena And, you know, I don't know if you could grow a business on AdWords the same way I did 15 years ago, because I think people look, they look for the brand now.

Live Episode! Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin Dec 17, 2018 · 1 mention

Wayfair: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine Apr 16, 2018 · 1 mention

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