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What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success
- ▶ 55:42 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
The Mindset Behind Building a Great Little Business | Brad Jacobs
- ▶ 1:32:34 Brad Jacobs So you look at, at Google, at Yahoo, at Netscape, at Sun Micros, all these companies that he invested relatively small amounts of money in and ended up being worth like ten billion bucks.
Excellence Is the Capacity to Take Pain
- ▶ 2:15 Kaz Nejatian Send me a Google Doc that was going to be my announcement, that this guy's going to become the CEO of the company.
- ▶ 19:00 Kaz Nejatian Same with Amazon, same with Google, because before these things existed, everyone thought the market was smaller because there was so much friction in the market.
- ▶ 28:48 Kaz Nejatian Google does not make money from you searching for things. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:52 Kaz Nejatian Google's strategy was not meaningfully different than the other 25 search engines.
- ▶ 42:46 Kaz Nejatian Like, this is like, uh, Google famously A-B tested some, like, 400 different shades of blue.
Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 12:35 Bill Gurley For, for restaurants and stuff, I've, I've been using Gemini just because it has all the Google review data, and you can, you know, you, you don't just ask it,
- ▶ 21:52 Bill Gurley There are much better people to talk about this than me, but there's a, people point to this famous game that Google AlphaGo, where Google implemented, and the bot eventually came up with a move that was shocking to all humans, and that, I… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:43 Bill Gurley In an ecosystem, and then they've been able to prove that they can grow, and that that growth might be a function of their size already, or their footprint, or their users, and that would include everyone from Google to Amazon to Meta,…
You Don’t Need To Innovate To Be Successful | FarmVille Creator
- ▶ 35:26 Mark Pincus And that was search before Google, you know, Google was the 56th search engine. 4 times in the scene
Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions | Winston Weinberg
- ▶ 0:12 Shane Parrish I want to double click on this massive, 200 page, 400 page Google document that you have.
- ▶ 7:26 Shane Parrish If you were to create a Google document of your principles for decision-making, what would be in it?
- ▶ 9:38 Winston Weinberg So he was one of the first folks at the, at Google brain. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:23 Winston Weinberg What I like to do a lot is I go through, like, a Google Doc, and I do, like, a live editing process, um, 2 times in the scene
Ai Goes Parabolic | OpenAI Co-Founder Greg Brockman
- ▶ 1:51 Greg Brockman Because you think about just the degree to which DeepMind had all the researchers, all the capital, all the data. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:14 Greg Brockman Dario and Chris ended up deciding to go to Google Brain, and so it was really just, you know, Ilya, me, and, you know, John starting to be maybe a few others.
- ▶ 20:32 Greg Brockman So many people were trying to sign the petition at once, it actually crashed Google Docs.
- ▶ 24:59 Shane Parrish If I were to say, like, open a Google document, write out sort of what you learned about yourself on one page from this whole starting to Sam getting out of state, to you quitting, to inspiring all this loyalty to the time off and then…
The Magic of Thinking Big | XPO CEO Mario Harik
- ▶ 1:02:35 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31:35 Mario Harik You look at today where the latest Google TPUs and where the Nvidia chipsets are at, we're talking five petaflops.
- ▶ 1:31:35 Mario Harik You look at today where the latest Google TPUs and where the Nvidia chipsets are at, we're talking five petaflops.
Alpha School: AI and The Future of Education | Joe Liemandt
- ▶ 57:34 Google Chrome This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38:37 Google Chrome This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38:39 Google Chrome You think you know a browser, but Gemini and Chrome? 2 times in the scene
Harrison McCain: The Potato Farmer who Went Big
Beating the Market: Connor Teskey, CEO Brookfield Asset Management
- ▶ 1:18:25 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
An Unlikely Empire | J.W. Marriott
The Near Death Experience of RobinHood | Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder
- ▶ 59:25 Vlad Tenev Google, obviously, very, very strong model in general reasoning. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:28 Vlad Tenev And they said this is a existential threat to Google search. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30:17 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
The Obsession That Built Nike | Phil Knight
The $2 Trillion Mind | Nicolai Tangen
- ▶ 47:49 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power
- ▶ 33:59 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:27 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:23 Michael Ovitz To Google and find out how to get around paying for a sporting event with very simple instructions.
Ray Kroc : How McDonald’s Took Over America
Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking | Peter D. Kaufman [Outliers]
- ▶ 1:38 Shane Parrish The complete transcript and audio are reproduced at fs.blog with the written permission of Peter, so you can find a link in the description for this episode, or just Google the multidisciplinary approach to thinking.
- ▶ 10:14 Google Chrome This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:50 Google Chrome This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
How to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear
- ▶ 27:31 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:38 James Clear I will go back through and take photos of each of those and highlight the photo, uh, on my iPhone and just copy and paste it into, uh, like an Evernote file or, you know, Google doc or wherever I'm storing that stuff at.
- ▶ 1:08:04 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
The Outlier Playbook: The Patterns Behind Enduring Success
- ▶ 31:24 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
Be Your Best in 2026: The Most Important Lessons from The Knowledge Project (2025)
- ▶ 49:52 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
Bernie Marcus: The Story of Home Depot
- ▶ 50:08 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 3:09 Rory Sutherland If you think about it, nobody clicks the I'm feeling lucky button on Google.
Mary Kay Ash: The Greatest Salesperson In History [Outliers]
- ▶ 18:33 Google Chrome This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:17 Google Chrome This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 5 times in the scene
7 Principles of Inner Excellence to Stay Calm Under Fire | Jim Murphy
- ▶ 51:47 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgment [Outliers]
Panera Founder Ron Shaich
- ▶ 1:15:58 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple [Outliers]
- ▶ 1:35 Shane Parrish The place that would birth Apple and Google was still called Santa Clara Valley.
- ▶ 18:41 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:47 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
Jim Clayton: Turning Competitors’ Mistakes Into $1.7B [Outliers]
- ▶ 44:26 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
Building Great Businesses | Tracy Britt Cool
- ▶ 53:03 Tracy Britt Cool Google or others, they had network effect and these other dynamics that drove the moat, and so you didn't have capital.
- ▶ 59:57 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:00 unnamed speaker You think you know a browser, but Gemini and Chrome? 2 times in the scene
Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers]
- ▶ 22:40 Google Chrome This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
Barry Diller: Building IAC
- ▶ 1:00 Barry Diller Google, over the years, was consistently, as it monopoly grew, was squeezing the people who kind of lived on, as a surf on its, ah, land.
- ▶ 38:48 Barry Diller Well, to a, to a degree, for sure, the internet world, I think that everybody participated in, up until, still true to some degree today, was so dominated by Google. 4 times in the scene
Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods [Outliers]
How To Build A Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- ▶ 38:08 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38:56 Lulu Cheng Meservey That pitch is insane, and it works, and so studying why it works and what it takes to do that, I think, is very instructive, because for a startup, you're saying, okay, we're going to take on Google, and we're going to be the next Google,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:45:38 Lulu Cheng Meservey We're going to beat Google.
Fred Smith: The Story of FedEx [Outliers]
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 0:33 Benedict Evans The very high level threat to Google is that you have this moment of discontinuity in which everybody resets their priors that reconsiders their defaults. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:10 Benedict Evans I'm pretty sure people thought Microsoft had an advantage on the internet, and Google and, um, Meta had an advantage on mobile, and everyone thought IBM was going to win PCs. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:47 Benedict Evans I think the, the, the, the obvious Google threat right now is that, um, Google shows you a bunch of links and results and ideas, and those could now be solved in a different way. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:13 Benedict Evans Which is you need such an enormous amount of generalized text that the amount that Google has or that Meta has is not actually enough to move, to be a kind of a fundamental difference in what you can train with. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:57 Benedict Evans Same in Google Trends.
- ▶ 29:07 Benedict Evans It's the Google.
- ▶ 30:47 Benedict Evans So what you have with Google Search, that Google has all the feedback from how people use it that makes the search engine better. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:47 Benedict Evans So what you have with Google Search, that Google has all the feedback from how people use it that makes the search engine better.
- ▶ 38:56 Shane Parrish My kids don't use Google anymore. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:37 Benedict Evans Like, this was a technology that had been kind of floating around before ChatGPT, 3.5, and everyone kind of saw that it didn't work very well, and then ChatGPT works, well, no, actually it works well enough, and then there's this explosion… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:43 Benedict Evans The question for Apple is how much does, would integrating an LLM into the operating system change the experience of what it is, potentially shifting the competitor balance with, with, with, with Pixel, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:02 Benedict Evans There's another axis here, which is what happens to Google search?
- ▶ 1:06:04 Benedict Evans Even half the cool, sexy Google stuff is in the Google app on the iPhone. 4 times in the scene
The Science of Lasting Love with Dr. Sue Johnson
Sol Price: The Retail Legend Who Taught Sam Walton, Jim Sinegal, and Jeff Bezos [Outliers]
- ▶ 9:01 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
- ▶ 1:29:06 Ryan Petersen If you Google Munger, worldly wisdom, you'll find it.
Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
Les Schwab: Why Real Ownership Outperforms Experience, Capital, and Credentials [Outliers]
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