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Bobbie: Laura Modi. How a Baby Formula Startup Took Market Share From Two Industry Giants
- ▶ 2:05 Guy Raz Laura had built a successful career in tech, working at Google and then Airbnb.
- ▶ 5:31 Guy Raz Intel and Google.
- ▶ 5:55 Guy Raz You, you decided that you wanted to work at Google in the US. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:49 Guy Raz All right, so you're, you end up, you're at Google for about five years, I think. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:21 Guy Raz You've been at Google, you've been at Airbnb, so you have developed connections, contacts, and how much were you, were you trying to raise initially?
Advice Line with Chris Riccobono of UNTUCKit
Advice Line with Curt Richardson of OtterBox
Advice Line with Kenneth Cole
Advice Line with Ronnen Harary of Spin Master/PAW Patrol
Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018)
Advice Line with Anthony Casalena of Squarespace
Advice Line with Tony Xu of Doordash
Poppi: Allison and Stephen Ellsworth. From Farmers Market Vinegar Drink to $2B Soda Sensation
Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global
- ▶ 6:08 Guy Raz And I think like Larry Page and Reid Hoffman, people who years later would become known for LinkedIn and obviously Google, like lots of people before they were known were coming to these monthly meetups.
- ▶ 24:46 Guy Raz So you get together, and you manage to convince a pretty top Google engineer to come join you. 3 times in the scene
Tecovas: Paul Hedrick
Advice Line with Luis von Ahn of Duolingo
Snap: Evan Spiegel
- ▶ 38:11 Guy Raz And he was the seat, the, I think the chairman of Google at the time.
- ▶ 45:03 Guy Raz He famously founded Groupon, and famously, they were offered up to like six billion dollars for an acquisition from bidders like Google and Yahoo, which of course they turned down, which proved to be a mistake, right?
- ▶ 57:59 Guy Raz But, you know, people have been talking about this for a long time, going back to Google Glass.
- ▶ 59:39 Guy Raz So like Twitter, Meta, Google, TikTok, they're all represented there.
Skype and Kazaa: Niklas Zennström
SpotHero: Mark Lawrence
Advice Line with Alberto Perlman of Zumba
Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day: Monica Nassif
Advice Line with Travis Boersma of Dutch Bros
Groupon and Descript: Andrew Mason
- ▶ 3:32 Guy Raz At one point, Groupon entertained acquisition offers from both Yahoo and Google, offers in the billions of dollars.
- ▶ 34:02 Guy Raz The Yahoo folks just rubbed you the wrong way, which is totally fair, but at the same time, you had a, you know, you had a duty to your board and, and your investors to, to explore this, and, and so this might not be exactly how it… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:40 Guy Raz Alright, so you, um, basically in December of 2010, you turned down this offer from Google.
- ▶ 41:43 Guy Raz You go public in November of 2011 and despite all of that, despite all of the negative press, it was the biggest internet IPO since Google in 2004.
Advice Line with Jamie Siminoff of Ring
On athletic shoes: Olivier Bernhard and Caspar Coppetti
Twitter, Medium and Blogger: Ev Williams
- ▶ 32:05 Guy Raz Of course, many people who know the story know where this is going, because it attracted Google's attention, and they made an acquisition offer to you, um, and, and in February of oh three, 2003, they bought Blogger from you, um, and here… 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:07 Guy Raz All right, so, 2004, um, you leave Google, and you start to noodle on a new idea, because you made some money from Blogger, and the, and the new idea would become, you started a podcast platform in 2004, called Odeo, which must have been,… 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Fawn Weaver of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey
AI is smarter than you think with Shane Legg of Google DeepMind
- ▶ 2:31 Guy Raz Today, the company is part of Google's AI division, and Shane is on the front lines of a technological revolution.
- ▶ 9:34 Guy Raz We're going to come back to that, um, and later in this conversation, but I want to talk about what you would go on to do, because while you were in graduate school, you met, um, Demis Hassab is still at Google today, and, and Mustafa…
- ▶ 13:23 Guy Raz So in 2014, only a few years after its founding, DeepMind was acquired by Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:02 Guy Raz So last year in 2023, DeepMind, which had been essentially an independent part of Google for a decade, was merged with Google's AI division.
- ▶ 26:13 Guy Raz Here's more for my conversation with Shane Legg, co-founder of Google DeepMind.
“Beaming” people anywhere in the world with David Nussbaum of Proto
AI that can be your second brain with Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri of Humane
Primal Kitchen: Mark Sisson
The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 1
- ▶ 4:51 Guy Raz We're going to talk a lot about AI in this conversation, but I want to go back to around 2011 when Apture, Apture was acquired by Google, and you started work at Google. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:25 Guy Raz You were an employee at Google and you decided to put together a 144 page, um, Google slide presentation about, you know, what was going on.
- ▶ 10:50 Guy Raz And Tristan was at Google, and he was sounding the alarm about the dangers of the attention economy. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:47 Guy Raz Essentially, Google announced this development, it's called the transformer model, and this helped kind of spark this, this breakthrough in what we now know as large language models, and that's kind of 2 times in the scene
Sonos: John MacFarlane
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
- ▶ 30:51 Guy Raz All right, so you get acquired by Google. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:47 Guy Raz So it's around 2012, and Luis has been working at Google for two years, and he's got one more year to go to get fully paid out. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:36 Guy Raz So it's 2015 and Google has just invested forty five million dollars in Duolingo, which is great, but Luis still doesn't know how it's going to make money. 2 times in the scene
The future of driving is autonomous with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo
- ▶ 1:02 Guy Raz Waymo was spun out of Google a few years ago, but the project to build autonomous vehicles at Google actually goes back to 2009. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:38 Guy Raz You and, um, Sebastian Thrun and Chris Urmson, you all went to go work for Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:41 Guy Raz I guess in those early days, the, the Google strategy was really on creating driver assist technologies, not necessarily fully autonomous cars, but cars that could make it easier for drivers to navigate, basically what you've got in, you… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:14 Guy Raz The first person, the first public person that's out of Google.
- ▶ 24:38 Guy Raz Alright, so, so just to, to, to clarify, like, basically, you have the first successful ride with a third generation vehicle in 2015, and then in 2016, you, Waymo actually spins out of Google as an independent company, and then the next…
Unlocking the renewable energy revolution with Ramya Swaminathan of Malta Inc.
Solo Stove: Spencer and Jeff Jan
When our phones are just phones with Kai Tang and Joe Hollier of Light
- ▶ 1:51 Guy Raz Joe worked as a filmmaker, animator, and illustrator after college, and because both Kai and Joe had design backgrounds, they met while attending a thirty-week incubator program for designers that was put on by Google in New York.
- ▶ 5:02 Guy Raz So you guys are in this incubator program for, for Google.
When AI is your personal tutor with Sal Khan of Khan Academy
- ▶ 0:17 Guy Raz Teachers began teaching on Zoom, schools started issuing students laptops, and platforms like Google Classroom became indispensable.
- ▶ 34:15 Guy Raz I mean, many kids are now issued laptops, and not just in private schools, but also in public schools, and so much of the work is done through Google Classroom, right?
When trucks drive themselves with Chris Urmson of Aurora
- ▶ 1:08 Guy Raz He was a founding member of Google's self-driving car program, which is now Waymo, and it all started as an early fascination with science and robots.
- ▶ 10:59 Guy Raz We're going to take a quick break, but when we come back, how Chris Ermsson helped start Google's secret self-driving vehicle program, and why he eventually left that job to found his own self-driving vehicle company, Aurora.
- ▶ 11:46 Guy Raz All right, so after these DARPA challenges, you were recruited, uh, to go work for, for Google by Sebastian Thrun, who was kind of like one of your, one of your rivals during these competitions. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:07 Guy Raz Alright, so you, you eventually left Google to, to start your own company, um, and tell me a little bit about, first of all, what makes Aurora different from your competitors, because there are obviously many of your competitors, you, you…
Spikeball: Chris Ruder
Harry’s Razors: Andy Katz-Mayfield and Jeff Raider
Tapping the heat beneath your feet with Kathy Hannun of Dandelion Energy
HIBT Lab! Ursa Major: Joe Laurienti
Halo Top Ice Cream: Justin Woolverton
Twilio: Jeff Lawson
HIBT Lab! Boom Supersonic: Blake Scholl
HIBT Lab! Nuro: Dave Ferguson
- ▶ 2:47 Guy Raz And, and did you pursue that degree with, presumably with the intention of working for, I don't know, a robotics company or, or like a Google or something like that? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:31 Guy Raz Um, all right, so you, I think you're there for about four or five years at Google, and the two of you, you and Jay-Z decide to, to start your own autonomous vehicle company. 2 times in the scene
Complexly: Hank and John Green
HIBT Lab! Immunai: Noam Solomon
- ▶ 4:40 Guy Raz You've described ImmuneEye's work as sort of like creating a Google Maps of the human immune system, right, more or less? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:25 Guy Raz I read a piece by your co-founder, Luis, and he talked about when Google developed an AI program that could beat humans in the game Go, and the computer beat humans by using this counterintuitive move called Move-thirty-seven.
Roku: Anthony Wood
- ▶ 36:44 Guy Raz So you basically said, Hey, because oftentimes when you get hired, like if Google hires you and you've got a company, they usually, there's a package and they just buy all your stuff and then they own whatever you built.
- ▶ 47:04 Guy Raz Wireless, and you can go Wi-Fi, and you can just, like, load up Google Chrome on your TV, and then just, like, log into Netflix.
- ▶ 1:01:44 Guy Raz Amazon developed a competing product, Google.
Tripadvisor: Steve Kaufer
HIBT Lab! Cruise: Kyle Vogt
Bombas: David Heath and Randy Goldberg
Rivian: RJ Scaringe
Noom: Saeju Jeong
- ▶ 31:35 Guy Raz And from what I understand, you were actually working out of Artem's apartment in New York while he was at work at Google during the day, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:46 Guy Raz But fortunately, Artem and some friends who are helping out also work at Google for their day jobs, and that leads to a new idea for an app. 4 times in the scene
Twitch: Emmett Shear
- ▶ 11:15 Guy Raz and then Google will buy it from us?
- ▶ 45:45 Guy Raz I mean, it's, it's why everyone knows what Facebook and Google is, right?
- ▶ 1:16:31 Guy Raz You know, Instagram was bought for like a billion dollars by Facebook and people, you know, people think of that as like, or, or even YouTube's acquisition by Google to like, people call those like the bargains of the century.
TaskRabbit: Leah Solivan
The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon
Affirm: Max Levchin (Part 2 of 2)
- ▶ 19:09 Guy Raz But obviously, things are going well enough at Slide that, I mean, Google decides to buy it in, in, in, I think for around a hundred and eighty million dollars, and you become a, a Google employee, but I'm assuming when you got there, you… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:01 Guy Raz Meantime, you, so you leave Google in 2011, but there, there's other things going on in, in your life. 3 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Google: Sundar Pichai
- ▶ 0:05 Guy Raz So depending on the day, Google is either the third or fourth most valuable company in the world. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30 Guy Raz And even after a successful run as a product manager overseeing everything from Google Chrome to Google Drive, Sundar never saw himself as a future CEO of the company.
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