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41 statements across 20 episodes · 7 bullish · 12 bearish · 21 people on the record · first statement Jul 13, 2023 by Noah Desai Weiss · said 425 times in 61 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Brett Berson (97), Jack Krawczyk (44), Sam Schillace (28), Dan Siroker (14), Qasar Younis (13), Cameron Adams (13), Todd Jackson (10), Noah Desai Weiss (10)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 35 mentions in 8 episodes 4 per episode
- How Gamma pulled off their AI pivot | Jon Noronha (Co-founder and CPO of Gamma)
- Executive Function: Build systems that can decide without you | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (COO, Vercel)
- Playing it safe with marketing is the riskiest thing you can do | Sheila Joglekar Vashee (Figma CMO)
- How to build a company when you’re not an optimist | Jay Kreps (Co-founder and CEO, Confluent)
- AI killed the product roadmap | Diya Jolly (CPO & CTO of Xero)
- The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)
- Why old-school sales work still wins in the AI era | Graham Moreno (Head of GTM, Parallel)
- Snowflake’s first sales hire on scaling from $0 to $3.5B | Chris Degnan (Former CRO, Snowflake)
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 103 mentions in 21 episodes 5 per episode
- From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
- How Canva leveraged unconventional growth levers to grow to $42B | Cameron Adams (Co-founder & CPO)
- Inside the ex-YC partner’s $15B self driving car company | Qasar Younis
- The pivot that paid off: How fal found explosive growth | Gorkem Yurtseven (Co-founder and CTO)
- Scrappy tactics and a huge post-COVID pivot | Adam Guild (Co-founder and CEO of Owner)
- How a weekend hack became a multimillion-dollar AI startup | Adit Abraham (CEO at Reducto)
- Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product building | Karri Saarinen (Co-founder & CEO)
- From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The story of Persona | Rick Song (Co-founder and CEO)
- 13 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 114 mentions in 18 episodes 6 per episode
- Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
- The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
- How to find & pull startup growth levers | Matt Lerner (Founder of SYSTM, Author of Growth Levers)
- How to build and scale winning marketplaces | Casey Winters (Eventbrite, Pinterest, Grubhub)
- How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO)
- Inside Figma’s early days: How to build a world-class sales org | Kyle Parrish (VP of Sales)
- The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oliver Jay (Asana)
- Building products that delight customers | Adam Nash (Daffy, Wealthfront, LinkedIn, eBay, Apple)
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 173 mentions in 14 episodes 12 per episode
- The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI | Jack Krawczyk (Google)
- AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
- Lessons from Slack on decision making, product-led growth, and taking big swings | Noah Desai Weiss
- How to leverage intuition, customer support, and raw effort | Colin Zima (Omni & Looker)
- The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
- How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
- Contrarian takes on growth, hiring, and fundraising | Wade Foster (Co-founder & CEO at Zapier)
- A guide to building product in a post-LLM world | Ryan Glasgow and Kevin Mandich from Sprig
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
Everything said about Google, oldest first
Jul 13, 2023
Weiss outlines Google's 70-20-10 product portfolio allocation framework
“When I was at Google, they used to have this model they called seventy-twenty-ten, and I think they kind of classified as, you know, 70% should be, that first category you said, like, low-hanging fruit, obvious wins, incremental. 20% should be kind of extendin…”
Jul 13, 2023 negative
Weiss: Google was notorious for demoralizing eleventh-hour launch cancellations
“Or the absolute worst thing, and this happened at Google all the time, they were notorious for this, is like launch, Readiness review something or other. And you did all this work. You maybe worked for years as a team. And it's like, finally, you have one of t…”
Aug 17, 2023 negative
Elliott-McCrea: Google hires often struggle elsewhere because its internal systems don't replicate
“I think the canonical example of this is Google, by the way. I mean, I think that
Sort of in industry. Now we've kind of learned you hire people out of Google and they show up and they don't know how to operate because they've been such a determined high funct…”
Aug 17, 2023 negative
Sep 14, 2023 negative
Siroker: Google culture prioritizes technical sophistication over solving customer problems
“At Google, you know, they value sophistication of the technology more than they value solving a customer problem. And so that was a cultural thing that started from the early days that served us well, served Google well for certain products like search and pro…”
Sep 14, 2023 negative
Siroker: Google's 'Googliness' Was Poorly Defined and Occasionally Weaponized
“Google has this, Sense of Googliness that you had to assess candidates by, but it always frustrated me that there was no clear definition of what Googliness meant, what it meant to be Googly. And I actually found that it tended to, on occasion, become weaponiz…”
Oct 12, 2023
Oct 12, 2023 positive
Zima: Looker's 6% spend on support drove 15-20% lift across metrics
“Even post Google, I wrote up a case study that said Google should retain Looker support because this six percent that we spend on support as a percentage of revenue is worth 15 or 20% in terms of, you know, like growth, retention, every kind of metric that we …”
Nov 16, 2023 negative
New engineering leaders fail by assuming prior company context transfers directly
“The number one way that I see new engineering leaders struggle when they come to a company is they just assume the context from their previous company applies as is.
And if you've got new leaders who come in and really make a mess of things,
It's always becaus…”
Nov 30, 2023 neutral
Nov 30, 2023 neutral
Google initially delayed streaming Bard responses to complete real-time copyright checks
“One of the things that we started to see in some of these outputs as you start to kind of stream them out is, well, even though it was a function of probability and not regurgitation of copyrighted material, you would get a response, and then at the end of the…”
Nov 30, 2023 neutral
Nov 30, 2023 neutral
Google initially experimented with integrating Meena and LaMDA into Assistant
“When I first got to Google in 2020, We were experimenting with a technology that was then called MENA, one of the first language models that was out available in the market. MENA became Lambda, and what we were experimenting with was, how do we get this very c…”
Nov 30, 2023 neutral
Google initially delayed real-time streaming in Bard to enable content filtering
“Like today, before I came here, we just talked about Bard being able to respond in real time. Other language models have been able to do that, but we have elected to present results in piecemeal, because it allows us to do a certain amount of filtering.”
Nov 30, 2023 neutral
Google delayed Bard's coding capabilities because the initial version lacked quality
“We knew that code, for example, was something that people were using language models for, but we didn't think it was good enough, and so at some point we made the decision to say, look, code's not ready, so code launched a couple weeks after we launched”
Nov 30, 2023 neutral
Nov 30, 2023
Asking 'why not today' forces prioritization without creating interpersonal conflict
“And early on, we started saying things like, why tomorrow, why not today? Because what that ends up forcing isn't this, like, uncomfortable clash of, like, how dare you make it make something I'm asking for not a priority. It's, hey, share your priorities. Lik…”
Nov 30, 2023 positive
Nov 30, 2023
Dec 21, 2023 neutral
Jan 11, 2024 negative
Parrish: Founders overcomplicate sales hiring by chasing big-name company resumes
“I think a lot of founders overcomplicate things, trying to think, think of someone that worked at a big name company, say Google, Salesforce, whatever it may be, and not really someone who has the right experience, whether it's working in the industry and kind…”
Jan 25, 2024 negative
Feb 15, 2024 bullish
May 30, 2024 neutral
Winters: Low-frequency marketplaces typically remain fully reliant on Google SEO
“And I think that's normally what a low frequency marketplace looks is you're just grinding on SEO and conversion all day, every day. And there isn't really that opportunity to build that non-transactional product like Zillow has to create engagement. So essent…”
Jun 6, 2024
Jun 6, 2024 neutral
Jun 6, 2024 negative
Schillace: Google Docs has become a complicated, bloated version of Microsoft Office
“To be honest, like, I'm a little bit sad at the state of Gdocs these days because I think they're losing sight of the idea that, you know, they're kind of turning it into Office and like making it very complicated to use again. And I find lots of things broken…”
Jun 6, 2024 neutral
Jun 6, 2024 neutral
Schillace: Microsoft cloud tools must preserve desktop compatibility, unlike Google Docs
“They're trying to keep the cloud very strongly competitive roundtrip, or very strongly compatible, you know, roundtrip compatible with the desktop. That's a design point Google does not care about, but Microsoft does care about.”
Sep 26, 2024 negative
Early-stage startups cannot compete against incumbents on Meta and Google ads
“Ads, you know, let's just be specific. We're talking about Meta and Google. Those are the main ways you buy, and they're sold at auction, which means ultimately they're going to go to the people who can pay the most, which means the most well-funded companies,…”
Mar 27, 2025 positive
Apr 29, 2025
Abraham: Reducto operates fully in person without daily one-on-ones or long write-ups
“We don't do daily one-on-ones. We don't have sort of like extensive write-ups for the work that we're doing for the sake of showing that it's a lot of work. The way that we approach product building is we have a channel on Slack called Daily Updates where ever…”
Aug 1, 2025 positive
Aug 1, 2025
Younis: Startups Are Not Meritocratic; Connected Founders Perform Better
“The other uncomfortable truths are like the rule is the mostly the highly educated, connected founders do better than the not highly educated, connected founders. Like the top, like people, I think we want to have this feeling that it's egalitarian and or it's…”
Aug 1, 2025 negative
Aug 1, 2025 neutral
Aug 28, 2025 positive
Aug 28, 2025
Oct 23, 2025
Stauch: Serval's demo only clicks when showing the workflow builder
“The demo can be kind of broken up into everything that comes before showing the workflow builder and then everything that comes after, because before you show the workflow builder, people are bored and everything you show them, they think they've seen before. …”
Dec 10, 2025 negative
Jul 24, 2026 positive
Noronha: Gamma mixes multi-provider models while incumbents are tied to in-house models
“We're also able to combine different models from different providers in a way that some of our competitors structurally aren't. They're kind of tied into their own House models, and so we get to directly test, you know, particularly in the world of image model…”