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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Google comes up
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
- ▶ 0:28 Luis von Ahn And at some point, we raised money from Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:34 Luis von Ahn And at some point, actually, um, Google, in fact, bought it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:46 Luis von Ahn The idea was like, tried to think what the other person was thinking, to the very amazing name of the Google Image Labeler, um, which is much less interesting.
- ▶ 21:50 Luis von Ahn Google had announced a really, um, at the time it seemed kind of insane, an ambitious project that we're going to take all of the world's books, everything that's ever been written, it's a hundred million books ever written, and we're… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 53:17 Luis von Ahn And at some point, um, we raised money from Google, uh, capital G is one of their investment arms.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 58:18 Luis von Ahn Oh, we, you know, we use Google ads.
- ▶ 1:01:39 Luis von Ahn You know, Google, for example, employs software engineers here in the United States whose English level is B-two.
Framing the future of eyecare with Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa of Warby Parker
- ▶ 16:13 Dave Gilboa There are certainly real costs that are associated with opening stores from paying rent and building out the stores and hiring teams, but the costs of operating an e-commerce business have also increased dramatically over the 13 years… 2 times in the scene
Briogeo Hair Care: Nancy Twine (2020)
- ▶ 28:26 Nancy Twine So I did what I always do, which is I consulted my friend Google, and, um, I Googled how to create a business plan, and I stumbled upon a website that offered a service where they would partner with you to understand your vision and then… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:23 Nancy Twine So I did some Google searching, and I found out her full name and who she was, and there was this website.
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…
Sir Kensington's: Scott Norton and Mark Ramadan
- ▶ 17:24 Scott Norton Googling and looking for cookbook recipes for what's in ketchup, and then creating variations of those ketchups.
- ▶ 21:56 Scott Norton You know, we basically, again, started like Googling, and we found a glass manufacturer in Springfield, Massachusetts, probably a 150 miles away.
Herschel Supply Co.: Jamie and Lyndon Cormack
- ▶ 29:23 Lyndon Cormack So we, we, uh, we literally turned to Google and started to Google things like how to make backpacks, how to start a backpack factory, where to make backpacks, and we took our, our little PDF on the same email, and we sent it to, like,…
Unlocking the renewable energy revolution with Ramya Swaminathan of Malta Inc.
Yasso: Amanda Klane and Drew Harrington
- ▶ 9:37 Drew Harrington So we had an engineer develop it in Texas, and in those days we used a combination of Google and Alibaba to identify a manufacturer in Shanghai, China that could produce it for us.
- ▶ 27:40 Amanda Klane No, we were like, Google, how do we find ice cream food scientists?
- ▶ 28:53 Amanda Klane And Google was our best friend back then. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:28 Amanda Klane And so, you know, through people we knew in the industry, and then Google, we found those, and we started just reaching out to them. 2 times in the scene
Threading the future of circular fashion with Peter Majeranowski of Circ
- ▶ 12:37 Peter Majeranowski And then we started immediately researching thanks to Google and other resources and saw that it was a really big problem.
Kinko’s: Paul Orfalea
- ▶ 15:10 Paul Orfalea Google, Xerox, Kodak.
Solo Stove: Spencer and Jeff Jan
- ▶ 7:18 Spencer Jan And step-by-step kind of going through the whole concept of blogging and making money off of AdSense and clicks and traffic and, and affiliate marketing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:34 Guy Raz The, the gardening business and the mattresses, you do AdSense, you buy, you do search engine optimization, the same playbook.
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.
- ▶ 2:14 Joe Hollier And that, uh, if a designer could make the vision of such a product seem real, that would entice investors or developers and engineers that could help bring that to life, because that's something Google kind of was doing internally. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:02 Guy Raz So you guys are in this incubator program for, for Google.
- ▶ 28:31 Joe Hollier We do a lot of projects and initiatives, uh, but what we don't do is spend money on Facebook meta platforms or Google, you know, ads.
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…
- ▶ 37:11 Chris Urmson So I remember back when I was at Google, you know, the first time we had a crash, it made national news.
Grindr: Joel Simkhai
- ▶ 13:59 Joel Simkhai Um, this was, again, before any, uh, Apple Maps or Google Maps.
- ▶ 40:59 Joel Simkhai Um, and that was a very, very popular feature, uh, and to, you know, that was, uh, in our private space, and that was in compliance with Apple and Google's guidelines, and, and that's what people did.
- ▶ 41:27 Joel Simkhai But, you know, revenue did come in, uh, maybe 2010, we probably maybe did a few million dollars in revenue, so, but it was, you know, break even, and trying to grow the team, and pay for the servers, and, you know, those were our two big… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:52 Joel Simkhai Google App Engine was the, our hosting provider, was the, uh, Google, uh,
The Lip Bar (TLB): Melissa Butler (2020)
- ▶ 24:37 Melissa Butler Um, I probably Google how to make lipstick, and there wasn't that much out there at the time, but I just started experimenting, and I probably made, I don't know, a thousand batches of lipstick.
Dutch Bros. Coffee: Travis Boersma
- ▶ 14:42 Travis Boersma We didn't have Google Maps or anything like that.
Spikeball: Chris Ruder
- ▶ 12:59 Guy Raz So, so, I mean, when, when you really start to look into this, I would, I would imagine that the first thing you would have done would be to go to Google and, and type in Spikeball, like, you know, or, or owner, something like that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:21 Chris Ruder Like, I remember Googling how to write a business plan, and I found a, a format, and it was like, I don't know, a twenty-page document or something, and you could just basically start filling in the blanks.
- ▶ 38:49 Chris Ruder I asked the question, how'd you hear about it, and she said something along the lines of, oh yeah, I work with Young Life, and um, it's becoming very popular with our kids, and so I googled Young Life, and yeah, like, I think there's like…
Harry’s Razors: Andy Katz-Mayfield and Jeff Raider
- ▶ 20:43 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, Jeff and Andy use Google Translate to partner with a razor factory in Germany and come up with the name Harry's because, well, it's friendly.
- ▶ 25:59 Jeff Raider And so I literally just like a Google, you know, look them up online
- ▶ 31:52 Jeff Raider Um, in the early kind of days, they would, we'd be emailing with them, they would email to each other in German, and then we would obviously look at the, all this German back and forth between them and, you know, put it into Google…
Tapping the heat beneath your feet with Kathy Hannun of Dandelion Energy
Cultivating a creative community with Tina Roth-Eisenberg of CreativeMornings
- ▶ 15:56 Tina Roth-Eisenberg The first few years, we were hosted at agencies, design studios, or even within six months, we were hosted at Google, which really, to me, was an indicator, okay, there's something happening here, if Google invites us in. 2 times in the scene
Mielle Organics: Monique Rodriguez
- ▶ 16:32 Monique Rodriguez So I started Googling, like, you know, what are the steps that I need to take to create a nursing agency?
HIBT Lab! Ursa Major: Joe Laurienti
Halo Top Ice Cream: Justin Woolverton
- ▶ 18:31 Justin Woolverton Literally, what I did the next day was Google ice cream factories near me to figure out where I could go make it on professional equipment.
- ▶ 19:32 Guy Raz He Googles ice cream factories near me to find places that could make his new product.
- ▶ 47:16 Justin Woolverton That's what made it so funny, is I got a Google alert for Halo Top, realized GQ had written about it, and I opened the article,
HIBT Lab! New Culture: Matt Gibson and Inja Radman
- ▶ 4:17 Inja Radman I had to Google it, and it just was different.
Twilio: Jeff Lawson
- ▶ 7:11 Jeff Lawson Google was available.
- ▶ 10:17 Guy Raz It's eventually bought by Google, and I guess he told him about Versity, and Kevin O'Connor liked the idea,
- ▶ 36:55 Jeff Lawson The same infrastructure that the giants, that the Amazons and Googles of the world are using to build their business now is available to everybody.
HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole
- ▶ 18:08 Pinky Cole So I'd be on Google all night.
Xero Shoes: Steven Sashen and Lena Phoenix
- ▶ 38:04 Lena Phoenix Um, and I grumbled and I was like, okay, well, um, and at that point in time, Google was prioritizing video content for SEO.
Politico & Axios: Jim VandeHei
- ▶ 24:14 Jim VandeHei Google bought YouTube, and it was like this aha moment for reasons I can't fully explain of, I remember going up to John Harris, who's my editor, and looking around the newsroom and thinking about what was happening with cable TV and the…
HIBT Lab! Boom Supersonic: Blake Scholl
- ▶ 2:37 Blake Scholl It was, think of it as Yelp plus Google Maps plus Foursquare on a Motorola Razr in 2006.
- ▶ 5:55 Guy Raz I think at one point, like Google, maybe I'd offered to buy Groupon, which they did not accept.
- ▶ 13:05 Blake Scholl We've optimized like, uh, you know, Google a picture of Boeing's first airliner, the seven Oh seven.
The Ringer: Bill Simmons
- ▶ 1:04:19 Bill Simmons How do we do SEO with Google?
- ▶ 1:12:10 Bill Simmons God forbid I was smart enough to Google her, 2 times in the scene
Chomps: Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali
- ▶ 23:20 Pete Maldonado And essentially what he talks about is establishing like proof of concept and using free tools like Google trends and then taking out some really cheap, back then they were really cheap Facebook ads to, to see if you could get anybody to…
- ▶ 32:24 Rashid Ali We started doing Facebook ads and a little bit of the paid search like Google ads.
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
- ▶ 8:01 Dave Ferguson What I had seen as my life's work, ah, starting out my, my career in, in academia and, and beyond, and so I was drawn back to robotics and, and ended up coming back out to work with some of my friends, ah, that I had known from CMU that… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:47 Dave Ferguson Uh, he was working on Google maps and he got pulled into, uh,
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 2:19 Guy Raz Now just two months before that cover came out, Google acquired YouTube for about 1.7 billion dollars.
- ▶ 23:25 Hank and John Green And the only thing I could do is kind of go home and search Google for any solutions that were being proposed.
- ▶ 23:46 Guy Raz All right, so, 2006, this is a pivotal year in what we now call the creator economy, because that was the year, I think, that YouTube was bought by Google.