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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]
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year
- ▶ 25:27 Harley Finkelstein When you look at other companies, um, I've sort of poked on Google a little bit on this only because I know a few people there that, that are, that, that are like this, but you do see much more well-rounded executives and more well-rounded…
- ▶ 34:33 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:06 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 14:14 Google Chrome This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:45 Google Chrome This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 5 times in the scene
Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi: Lessons from the Top
Anna Wintour: Vogue [Outliers]
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment
- ▶ 16:57 Google Chrome This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:59 Google Chrome You think you know a browser, but Gemini and Chrome? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:38 Google Chrome This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
Harvey Firestone: Men and Rubber [Outliers]
Bill Belichick: 8x Super Bowl Champion on Winning, Leadership, and Discipline
Andy Grove: Only The Paranoid Survive [Outliers]
- ▶ 13:07 Google Chrome This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:23 Google Chrome This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:26 Google Chrome You think you know a browser, but Gemini and Chrome? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:54 Shane Parrish As I was researching the whole transition from memory to semiconductors with Intel, you know, the parallels between what Google's going through right now just stuck out so much. 3 times in the scene
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
- ▶ 10:59 Elad Gil That's the common complaint I hear in Europe for Google start companies there is,
- ▶ 11:50 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:08 Elad Gil And so, um, there's this paper in 2017 that came out of Google called the Transformer, uh, Architecture. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:46 Elad Gil We'll see fewer, what are known as foundation model companies, the people building the open AIs or Anthropics or some of the Google core technologies.
- ▶ 33:48 Elad Gil And then if you look at a lot of the new reasoning stuff that OpenAI and others have been working on, Google's been working on some stuff here as well. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:44 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:03 Elad Gil And the biggest funders of all the open source browsers are Apple and Google with WebKit. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:06 Elad Gil That's probably pretty different than if you looked at, you know, how Oracle's been run over time versus Microsoft over time versus Google over time versus whoever. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:51 Elad Gil Like, the average Google engineer is not gonna be this insanely driven, hyper, you know, hyper drive person anymore.
- ▶ 1:27:49 Elad Gil Yeah, so, um, Android all happened in a unique moment in time where Google had just shut down Maven, and defense had suddenly become very unpopular in Silicon Valley, and people were making arguments that ethically you shouldn't support…
Rose Blumkin: Women of Berkshire Hathaway [Outliers]
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
- ▶ 0:16 Garry Tan You know, sometimes I sit there and I run into a bug, whether it's a Google product or an Apple product or, you know, Facebook or whatever.
- ▶ 6:10 Garry Tan When people realized they could start a startup, they went on Google, and they searched, and they found Paul's essays, and then through his essays, he, they found Y Combinator.
- ▶ 10:30 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:12 Garry Tan You know, one of the things I feel like I learned from Paul Graham interviewing alongside him so many years was that sometimes I'd go through and this person would come in, they had an incredible resume, you know, they're like had a PhD or…
- ▶ 52:42 Garry Tan You know, I mean, sometimes I sit there and I run into a bug into in, you know, whether it's a Google product or an Apple product or, you know, Facebook or whatever.
- ▶ 55:14 Garry Tan You know, basically there's a new Google style, um, sort of oligopoly that's emerging around, like, who provides the AI models, but because, um, it won't be, it probably won't be a monopoly, that's probably the best thing for, uh, the…
- ▶ 1:01:32 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:22 Garry Tan You know, Google probably could have done what Airbnb did, but it didn't because Google's Google, right?
- ▶ 1:12:33 Garry Tan Uh, and then I think, um, uh, a cooler head prevailed in that, you know, uh, the rebuttal was someone next went to Google, entered the same thing, and got exactly the same response.
- ▶ 1:22:38 Shane Parrish They all grew up in the world where, you know, Google became a thing after they were already adults, and it strikes me that there's a difference, you know, the pace of technology improvement versus the pace of law, but also, or regulation,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:41:54 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
Henry Singleton: The Greatest Capital Allocator in History [Outliers]
- ▶ 10:56 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:11 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:55 Shane Parrish For a complete list of episodes, show notes, transcripts, and more, go to fs.blog slash podcast, or just Google The Knowledge Project.
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 1:44 Shane Parrish The mastermind behind Google Maps and the former chief technology officer at Facebook, Brett reveals the brutal truths about leadership, AI, and what it really takes to build something that endures long after you've reached the top.
- ▶ 9:34 Bret Taylor This team applied to our sales channel or via Google acquisition.
- ▶ 14:58 unnamed speaker This episode is brought to you by Google Chrome. 4 times in the scene
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