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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Google comes up
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