Gemini
includes Gemini 3, Gemini 1.5, Gemini CLI, Gemini Flash, Gemini Three
9 statements across 8 episodes · 4 bullish · 4 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Sep 18, 2022 by Jason Shah · said 56 times in 23 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Lenny Rachitsky (15), Zevi Arnovitz (5), Maor Shlomo (5), Dan Shipper (4), Brian Balfour (3), Tamar Yehoshua (2), Raiza Martin (2), Rahul Vohra (2)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 14 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
- How a Meta PM ships products without ever writing code | Zevi Arnovitz
- The surprising advice from a founder who built 2 unicorns | Jason Cohen (WP Engine)
- Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
- How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks | Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 36 mentions in 15 episodes 2 per episode
- Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour
- Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
- The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
- The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
- “I deliberately understaff every project” | Leadership lessons from Rippling’s $16B journey
- Why securing AI is harder than anyone expected and guardrails are failing | HackAPrompt CEO
- I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson
- Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- Behind the product: NotebookLM | Raiza Martin (Senior Product Manager, AI @ Google Labs)
- Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua
- How marketplaces win: Liquidity, growth levers, quality, more | Benjamin Lauzier (Lyft, Thumbtack)
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
Everything said about Gemini, oldest first
Sep 18, 2022 positive
Shah: Uniswap, Gemini, and OpenSea are hiring Big Tech product managers
“Specifically Uniswap just made a big hire out of Meta. I saw that Gemini also did the same. We're seeing OpenSea hire a lot of talent along these lines too, even through the ups and downs that Their business has seen. So, and at all levels, whether it's kind o…”
Jan 11, 2024 negative
Apr 13, 2025 bullish
Rauch: JavaScript and React are the universal lingua franca for web AI
“JavaScript is almost, in my mind has always been almost like the English of programming languages. It's a language that if you learn it, you reach billions of devices. So it's not a coincidence that when you ask ChatGPT or Anthropic or Gemini to build you a we…”
Jul 6, 2025 positive
Shlomo: Claude excels at UI while Gemini is better for complex algorithms
“Claude for example, does a really nice job with first the initial prompt, like writing the app from scratch. Then everything that has to do with UI is just fantastic. Like design is great. But then for example, Gemini is really good when you get to a very comp…”
Jul 17, 2025 bullish
Aug 17, 2025 bearish
Balfour: Much of Google Gemini's MAU comes from accidental flyby user clicks
“If we could take a look inside their metrics, I think what we would see is a bunch of flyby users. In their mouths. Like they're kind of sprinkling the Gemini bucket everywhere. And I'm, I've like literally clicked on it accidentally multiple times. And so my …”
Aug 17, 2025 neutral
Balfour: AI chat platforms are currently in Step 0 of their lifecycle
“And I think we could all agree that we are in that Mode. You know, right now we've got open AI battling with Claude, battling with Gemini in Google with whatever meta comes out with their new team, you know, so on and so forth. Like, and there's huge amounts o…”
Nov 9, 2025 negative