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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Google comes up
Advice Line with Steve Case of AOL
- ▶ 31:50 Jason Levi So, would have to go sit at the computer, or look at my phone, and I'd have to google image search for a reasonable picture of the instrument, and then try to find a kid-friendly YouTube video to show someone playing it, or how it works.
Advice Line with Norma Kamali of Norma Kamali
- ▶ 23:06 Bob Wolkoff So my question is that, so people love, they crave our soup after they try us, and we have a 4.99 star rating on Google, but there is a resistance to getting not the first adopters, but people that when they think of going to lunch, they…
Advice Line with Chris Ruder of Spikeball
- ▶ 8:10 Jimmy Davidson So after I went and Googled, what does private sector mean?
- ▶ 20:24 Cindy Chin Smith I worked at Google for a couple years and then startups in fintech since then.
Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt
- ▶ 19:40 Bill Shufelt Um, so I was using a couple softwares, uh, one my wife recommended from her MBA program, and then Google used to have this amazing Google surveys program where you could pay, like, a penny a survey response or something.
- ▶ 19:40 Bill Shufelt Um, so I was using a couple softwares, uh, one my wife recommended from her MBA program, and then Google used to have this amazing Google surveys program where you could pay, like, a penny a survey response or something.
Boll & Branch: Scott and Missy Tannen
- ▶ 18:00 Scott Tannen Cause that's what happened is I, I Googled, you know, like suppliers and I, I live in New Jersey and fortunately they're all here.
- ▶ 31:49 Missy Tannen and so I just Googled what are the parts of a cotton plant, and you know, there's a bowl, and that's the pod
- ▶ 47:59 Scott Tannen Well, my, my goal for 2015 was to turn on customer acquisition, and my initial thought was to do exactly what I had perceived Warby Parker and everybody else to be doing, and I had set out to do, which was to turn on the, you know, digital…
BARK: Matt Meeker
- ▶ 40:05 Matt Meeker They're usually copying the whole playbook, so taking to Google search or Facebook advertising, and it's easy enough to just lean on them and outspend them.
What It Really Takes To Build a Food Business: Part 1
- ▶ 23:04 Becca Milstein So that was going on on one side, and then on the other side, I was diving into the internet to try to find a cannery partner in either Portugal or Spain, and Googling in Spanish to see what we could come up with.
Viator: Rod Cuthbert
- ▶ 53:40 Rod Cuthbert In those days, pre-cloud, there was no Amazon or, or Google Cloud, many companies ran their web businesses
Advice Line: Growing Beyond Your Niche
- ▶ 5:50 Oney Colston Googling, and I just started taking the steps. 3 times in the scene
Paperless Post: James and Alexa Hirschfeld
- ▶ 37:28 James Hirschfeld You know, not having been product marketing managers at Facebook or Google or, you know, not having gone to Stanford Business School or, you know, we, we were coming at this really almost as like naives.
- ▶ 1:01:09 James Hirschfeld So we just got a Google alert one, I think it was Saturday night, um, and I think I was probably out at a party, and I got this Google alert, and I looked at it, and I thought, wow, this is pretty, pretty wild. 2 times in the scene
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
SmartSweets: Tara Bosch
- ▶ 29:06 Tara Bosch So I began Googling and LinkedIn-ing people who I really admired and just being really clear and being like, hey, really admire your journey.
Advice Line with Jeff Raider of Harry's
- ▶ 42:41 Jeff Raider And I think where the world is shifting a little bit today versus where we started is maybe it's not, you know, a banner ad on Google or something.
On athletic shoes: Olivier Bernhard and Caspar Coppetti
- ▶ 56:49 Guy Raz But then all of a sudden you realize that on, like for a Google search, you, you can, you type it on and you're not necessarily going to hit running shoes. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:16 Caspar Coppetti If you look at, for example, Google search data, there was a time before Roger and a time after.
Advice Line with Brett Schulman of CAVA
- ▶ 23:25 Sophia Bowden Um, you know, I, honestly, it was just Google, and it would bring me not a ton of companies that provided allergy accessories, and if there were, it was very piecemeal.
Advice Line with Mark Ramadan of Sir Kensington's
- ▶ 37:45 Beth Beneke Also during the pandemic, we saw a ton of growth because everybody, you know, that's when I started marketing on Facebook and Google, and everybody was stuck at home, and everyone needed something to keep the baby busy while they were… 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Sarah Kauss of S'well
- ▶ 7:19 Kiara Munzi I went to Google and saw that people were adding protein powder to the oatmeal.
Advice Line with Randy Goldberg of Bombas
- ▶ 14:12 Rifki Itzkowicz In the past, when I've done kind of, um, like, played around with paid digital ads and stuff like that on Google, what I generally found was that the, if I started from the modesty place, it worked better than starting from the plus-size…
Advice Line with Maureen Kelly of Tarte Cosmetics
- ▶ 10:27 Christina O'Brien Google and Facebook ads, like, kind of, where do we go next to scale this company? 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Tom Rinks of Sun Bum
- ▶ 5:08 Wendy Cushel If you Google hand scrub, you're not going to really come up with just a hand scrub.
Therabody: Jason Wersland
- ▶ 32:53 Jason Wersland And if you look now, if you Google 40 hertz, it will come up with the reset frequency.
Advice Line with Andrew Abraham of Orgain
- ▶ 10:34 Bryn Snyder And in D to C, we do meta Google ads, and then we also do giveaways and partnerships with other companies that
nutpods: Madeline Haydon
- ▶ 18:58 Madeline Haydon I was trying to raise 30,000 dollars because I had googled how much does it cost to do a commercial formula, and somewhere on some blog, some guy had said, you should be able to do a commercial formula for 10,000 dollars.
- ▶ 33:07 Madeline Haydon I only had what was available on Google, and so, you know, you could sometimes have just a snippet of an industry report, like Ibis, on coffee and coffee creamers, and I would just try and, like, reach through and see what fuzzy parts, you…
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
- ▶ 41:39 Ev Williams Biz came over to Odeo fairly early from Google, and so Jack and Biz were working on a thing.
- ▶ 1:01:19 Ev Williams Um, so there's famous cases, like, YouTube sold to Google. 3 times in the scene
Advice Line with Pete Maldonado of Chomps
- ▶ 35:56 Jake Meyer We've tried Google ads.
Advice Line with Fawn Weaver of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey
- ▶ 24:06 Joanne Bang I take orders from Google Forms or Instagram direct messages, and I've been doing this since 2014.
- ▶ 24:15 Guy Raz So, alright, so right now you're getting most of your orders through, like, Instagram and Google, just direct messages, so you don't have a, I don't think you have a website, right? 3 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 18:06 Shane Legg We, at Google, had invented an extremely powerful algorithm called Transformer. 4 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.
- ▶ 34:10 Shane Legg Um, I lead the AGI safety group here at DeepMind for many years. 2 times in the scene
Mythical: Rhett and Link
“Beaming” people anywhere in the world with David Nussbaum of Proto
Achieving greater things with Adam Grant
- ▶ 28:14 Adam Grant If, if you're that much of a genius, we want to lock you up for life and throw away the key before you jump ship to Apple or Google or, or whoever else.
Weee!: Larry Liu
AI that can be your second brain with Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri of Humane
- ▶ 32:05 Guy Raz And where is, I mean, we, you know, Google has Gemini, and obviously there's ChatGPT, and there's other
- ▶ 33:54 Bethany Bongiorno So you have your own, think of it like your own Google homepage that you go to.
- ▶ 34:59 Guy Raz Um, I guess part of me is just worried about the security side of that, but we already do store a lot of our memories like Google Cloud.
Primal Kitchen: Mark Sisson
Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021)
- ▶ 1:03:13 Fawn Weaver Now they're Googling to find out why is this brand sold out?
The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 2
- ▶ 7:09 Tristan Harris You know, Apple and Google could start working on an interoperable standard saying that we're going to verify and make sure that when there's a phone call, there's a real handshake, that there's a new secure encrypted handshake.
Poshmark: Manish Chandra
- ▶ 19:46 Manish Chandra And Google AdSense was just starting to
- ▶ 1:03:11 Manish Chandra Think of them as Google and Shopify of, of Korea, but sort of they're into many other businesses.
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
- ▶ 12:13 Tristan Harris I met with the Chrome design team. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:08 Tristan Harris Remember that the stated mission statement of OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind from the very beginning, those three companies, 2 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
- ▶ 25:26 Tristan Harris And, you know, there's AI when Siri mispronounces your mom's name, and there's AI when Google Maps gets the directions wrong, or mispronounces a street address.
Sonos: John MacFarlane
- ▶ 1:36 Guy Raz But I always figured it was just a matter of time before Google or Amazon or Apple or Samsung or any other tech giant
- ▶ 41:35 John MacFarlane While they did fill the home with music, they just, you know, it was usually the B or C team, um, TVs were much more popular, home theater receivers, uh, so they were just kind of on autopilot, and what we were worried about is that Apple,…
- ▶ 45:20 John MacFarlane Well, at that time, I thought that was a probably bad idea because Amazon, Google, and Apple with Siri were clearly running that down hard. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:09 Guy Raz You know, the Google speaker and the Amazon speaker and the Apple speaker.
Magic Spoon & Exo: Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz
- ▶ 12:36 Greg Sewitz Um, because we googled online, how do we, you know, what happens trying to feed crickets to your lizards, and I guess it is common to put them in the freezer, because they're cold-blooded, they essentially go to sleep, and then you can…
- ▶ 21:05 Greg Sewitz Yeah, so from Googling, you know, energy bar, nutrition bar, protein bar manufacturers, we ended up finding a place actually in, in New York State that was willing to take us on.
Drunk Elephant: Tiffany Masterson
- ▶ 15:55 Tiffany Masterson Even though I don't know, I'm going to be on, on Google, you know, and I love to help people so much that that's what I was trying to do with people's skin.
- ▶ 43:59 Tiffany Masterson I went home, I googled it, and a video came up of animals in South Africa eating marula fruit off the ground, fermented, and
- ▶ 1:16:21 Tiffany Masterson Yeah, and after I launched Drunk Elephant, I got a Google alert that said, uh,
Liquid Death: Mike Cessario
- ▶ 49:28 Mike Cessario So then I'm like, okay, I'm going to start Google searching outside of the US. 2 times in the scene
Sharing the 2023 HIBT Lab Highlight Reel
- ▶ 3:36 Pinky Cole So I'd be on Google all night.