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How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
- ▶ 25:44 Roman Ugarte And the PDF doesn't exist on Google Scholar.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
- ▶ 1:52 Lenny Rachitsky He founded a company called Social Deck, which he sold to Google, and then ended up leading a number of efforts within Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:57 Anish Acharya And you see this with, of course, sophisticated companies like Google, but even a company like Kavak, where they sell, you know, used cars in Mexico, they've got this concept of a Jedi Academy where they're teaching everybody at the… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:07 Anish Acharya So for me, it's easier to think of a new feature to add to my DJ streaming app or, um, you know, my sort of Google reader for X that I use than it is to kind of find a part of my life to automate.
- ▶ 32:52 Anish Acharya And then the Instagram person is like, oh, this is like a better Google search.
- ▶ 34:22 Anish Acharya You know, the idea those a thousand Google committees who would roll in their graves at the idea that they're going to release a model that's disagreeable, or God forbid, it should be like sexually suggestive or, but guess what?
- ▶ 50:46 Lenny Rachitsky I have a guest post coming together from, uh, someone at Google that works on a lot of their lab stuff.
- ▶ 1:02:21 Lenny Rachitsky And every time you go search Google, I guess, do you think, do you feel like that? 2 times in the scene
How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks | Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan
- ▶ 13:03 Brian Halligan Like we hired so many people from Salesforce and Google, Microsoft, like a hundred percent, you know, attrition rate on all those folks.
- ▶ 15:08 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, kind of what I'm taking away here is people see all these fancy logos, amazing person, VP, this, that, Salesforce, Amazon, Google, whatever.
- ▶ 28:48 Brian Halligan Like when we started HubSpot, if I think of the way the funnel worked, you want to get found in Google, someone clicks on a blue link, they land on your website, they go down the rabbit hole, they clicked on contact sales.
- ▶ 33:48 Brian Halligan Instead of Google, you got to get found in, in, in these.
- ▶ 38:30 Brian Halligan Okay, I completely stole this from Ruth Porat, the CEO, the CFO of Google.
OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
- ▶ 58:09 Sherwin Wu Every startup that I've seen that is kind of fizzled out is not because open AI or, you know, big lab or Google or something has, has come to squash them.
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job)
- ▶ 10:39 Lazar Yovanovich Can build Chrome extensions, right? 2 times in the scene
A child psychologist’s guide to working with difficult adults | Dr. Becky Kennedy
- ▶ 32:01 Dr. Becky Kennedy Like, so if you Google good inside potty, like
Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet
- ▶ 1:12:46 Marc Andreessen Um, and then there were, and then, you know, there were five, you know, now, now you've got, you know, in the game, you know, fully in the game, you've got Google
The surprising advice from a founder who built 2 unicorns | Jason Cohen (WP Engine)
- ▶ 1:03 Jason Cohen Just adding one little feature and then hoping we can flog AdWords is not going to work.
- ▶ 15:09 Jason Cohen AdWords delivers the same number of leads and, you know, SEO delivers the same, like it does not care how big you are, these, these, these efforts.
- ▶ 42:39 Jason Cohen And the idea is that it halves the cost of your AdWords because it makes it so efficient. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:03 Jason Cohen We were, what we tend to do is flog the people doing AdWords, get more, flog the SEO people, get more searches, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:33:50 Jason Cohen I'd say you just give it to it and give a chart to it and say, like, make this into a table that I can paste, like literally say that I can paste into Google Sheets and it will do in a way that literally you can copy and it will actually… 2 times in the scene
How a Meta PM ships products without ever writing code | Zevi Arnovitz
- ▶ 17:54 Zevi Arnovitz And basically what happens behind the scenes is we send the information the user uploaded along with the system prompt and any other, um, augmentations the users decided to, uh, Gemini
- ▶ 33:54 Zevi Arnovitz It does an amazing job at basically taking all the complex guesswork out of building product and just allows you to just, you know, go with the vibes and build, but it will do sign in with Google for you and it will do a database, but then… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:16 Zevi Arnovitz This might be just my experience, but when I'm using Gemini within anti-gravity, which is, uh, Google's new competitor to cursor.
- ▶ 1:12:19 Zevi Arnovitz He'd say, oh, the import tax has gone up and I'll just search Google, like import tax Israel and like start reading
How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook
- ▶ 8:46 Sam Lessin It is true that if you bring manna from heaven, right, like you invent something that is literally the next Google or whatever out of pure thought,
- ▶ 1:22:33 Sam Lessin No, but I will say that I have hanging in my gym, which I love from the Facebook hackathon after the launch of Google plus, this is going way back in history.
- ▶ 1:22:48 Sam Lessin And it was just like this great moment in work time when it was like, okay, game on, like Google's coming for us.
Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google & Amazon
- ▶ 1:33 Lenny Rachitsky Kuriti works on Codex at OpenAI and has spent the last decade building AI and ML infrastructure at Google and at Kumo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:22 Lenny Rachitsky I just saw Demis from DeepMind AI, Google, whatever they call the whole org, uh, talking about this, where he's thinks that's going to be a big part of where they're going, combining the image model work, the LLM, and also their world… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:22 Lenny Rachitsky I just saw Demis from DeepMind AI, Google, whatever they call the whole org, uh, talking about this, where he's thinks that's going to be a big part of where they're going, combining the image model work, the LLM, and also their world…
“I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
- ▶ 0:00 Lenny Rachitsky You've worked with many very high performing founder CEOs, Zuck, Sheryl Sandberg, Larry and Sergey Google, Brett Taylor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10 Lenny Rachitsky Molly was an early employee at Google, also at Facebook, where she worked closely with Zuck on building the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
- ▶ 6:04 Molly Graham I actually started at Google the week 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:47 Molly Graham So this definitely started in my experience at Google.
- ▶ 37:53 Molly Graham Somebody once told me they re, I'm sure this is faster now, but they rewrote the entire code base of Google every eight years, which means that like, if you're not learning, if you're not evolving,
- ▶ 47:44 Molly Graham You know, it's obviously been a really helpful framework for Google and others, and a lot of times when I show up inside a company, or I'm talking to a leader, and I'm like, you know, what are your goals?
- ▶ 1:11:01 Lenny Rachitsky You worked really closely with Zuck, with Sheryl Sandberg, with Larry and Sergey Google, with Brett Taylor, who I just like, just like you try to read his resume. 3 times in the scene
We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
- ▶ 1:18:30 Jason Lemkin Not, not just at the startups, at the Google clouds, at everywhere, the Azure, they're, they're hiring so many humans that net net, it's a positive for the profession, but not for the way we've done it in the past.
“I deliberately understaff every project” | Leadership lessons from Rippling’s $16B journey
- ▶ 2:48 unnamed speaker This podcast is sponsored by Google.
- ▶ 2:51 unnamed speaker Hey folks, I'm Amar, product and design lead at Google DeepMind.
- ▶ 56:21 Matt McGinnis It is dominated by Google and Microsoft.
- ▶ 1:19:47 Matt McGinnis It's like, if you're selling the shovels, like open AI and, and Google with Gemini, you can make money.
- ▶ 1:24:53 Matt McGinnis I do turn to, um, to AI, ChatGPT and Gemini, where I, I take like a really 2 times in the scene
Why securing AI is harder than anyone expected and guardrails are failing | HackAPrompt CEO
- ▶ 29:12 Sander Schulhoff So, and the other kind of silly thing is that the, when, when you build like an automated red teaming system, you often test it on, uh, open AI models, anthropic models, Google models.
- ▶ 33:26 Sander Schulhoff Uh, and so we actually, we just released a major research paper on this alongside, uh, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic that took a, a bunch of, uh, adaptive attacks.
- ▶ 36:57 Sander Schulhoff Are working at frontier labs like OpenAI, Google, Anthropic.
- ▶ 1:05:13 Sander Schulhoff Um, unless you use a technique like camel and basically, uh, so camel's out of Google and basically what camel says is, Hey, depending on what the user wants, we might be able to restrict the possible actions of the agent ahead of time.
The new AI growth playbook for 2026 | How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year
- ▶ 29:56 Elena Verna Go on Google.
- ▶ 57:56 Elena Verna And we're not, we're not competing on AdWords or like in paid Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:56 Elena Verna And we're not, we're not competing on AdWords or like in paid Google.
- ▶ 1:09:04 Lenny Rachitsky Should I just go work at Google? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:43 Elena Verna I don't think anybody has work-life balance, regardless of what company that they work at, even at Google or like Microsoft or any of the others, I think everybody's freaking out and running as fast as they can.
Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- ▶ 58:15 Lenny Rachitsky I tweeted actually that I tried Atlas and then I, I don't love the AI only, uh, search experience as just like, I just want Google sometimes or whatever, like just waiting for AI to give me an answer.
The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
- ▶ 12:24 Edwin Chen And so in a very similar way to how Google search, like when Google search is trying to determine what is a good webpage, there's almost two aspects of it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:03 Lenny Rachitsky You have this hot take that a lot of these labs are kind of pushing AGI in the wrong direction, uh, and this is based on your work at Twitter and Google and Facebook.
- ▶ 50:17 Edwin Chen It's almost like in the same way that when Google builds a search engine, it's very, very different from how Facebook would build a search engine, which is very, very different from how Apple would build a search engine.
- ▶ 53:48 Edwin Chen And then I became a researcher at Google and Facebook and Twitter, and I just kept running into the same problem over and over again.
- ▶ 1:01:26 Edwin Chen And I was actually always a huge fan of DeepMind because they were this amazing research company that got bought and still managed to keep on doing amazing science.
What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (Vercel, Stripe, Google)
- ▶ 8:48 Lenny Rachitsky You've done this for a long time at Google, at Stripe, you built the first sales team, now you're doing that oversell.
- ▶ 1:03:40 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser So Google publishes a crux score, which is basically they have a bunch of data in Chrome,
Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 11:40 Stewart Butterfield But, okay, so most people have the Gmail calendar app on their phone. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:02 Stewart Butterfield This is an app that's used by at least hundreds of millions of people, presumably every single Google employee.
- ▶ 13:59 Stewart Butterfield Uh, it's crazy because no one's going to switch to Gmail or to, to G Suite, Google Calendar from Outlook Exchange because the time zone picker is good.
- ▶ 39:50 Stewart Butterfield Um, I'm gonna pick on Google again, just because it is, I feel like I'm Donald Trump here, but I'm gonna interrupt myself again with a story. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:47 Stewart Butterfield But you know that to, to like put the feature flags in, to ship new versions of the product, to put the instrumentation in, to have it, all the API calls, to record every action that people take, to, to do all the analytics, to create the…
- ▶ 1:26:45 Stewart Butterfield Later deleted their account, and so I have no idea who it was and who to credit for this, but what I had posted was, and this is a long time ago when restaurant websites have gotten better, and it doesn't really matter because Google Local…
The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li
- ▶ 2:02 Lenny Rachitsky She was chief AI scientist at Google Cloud, which is where some of the biggest early technology breakthroughs emerged from.
- ▶ 29:00 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, Demis had this really interesting interview recently from DeepMind slash Google, where someone asked him just like, what do you think?
- ▶ 29:00 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, Demis had this really interesting interview recently from DeepMind slash Google, where someone asked him just like, what do you think?
- ▶ 30:21 Lenny Rachitsky I know Google's working on this stuff. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:32 Dr. Fei-Fei Li And then I, you know, um, founded Google Cloud AI, and then I founded an institute at Stanford, but those are different beasts. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:54 Dr. Fei-Fei Li And then going to Google was similar.
- ▶ 1:10:51 Dr. Fei-Fei Li Back in 2018, I was actually finishing my last, last sabbatical at Google. 3 times in the scene
“Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (co-founder)
- ▶ 21:00 Grant Lee I was advising early stage startups and the sort of medium I was using was Google slides. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:39 Lenny Rachitsky I imagine you do some ads at this point in Facebook and Google and things like that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:12 Grant Lee And the default tool today is going into like a PowerPoint or Google slides where
- ▶ 1:32:06 Lenny Rachitsky We have the head of ChatGPT on the podcast and he shared the way they picked ChatGPT's prices, the Van Westendorp survey that they ran in Google Forms.
From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo
- ▶ 0:19 Lenny Rachitsky I also just saw a stat Google let go of so many of their middle managers.
- ▶ 14:28 Lenny Rachitsky I also just saw a stat that Google
- ▶ 30:38 Julie Zhuo Used to be, let's say in the Google world, right?
- ▶ 30:42 Julie Zhuo If you click the shopping tab, I know you're interested in maps. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:46 Julie Zhuo If you click the maps tab, we can measure clicks today.
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody
- ▶ 3:38 Lenny Rachitsky Warrant's product is based on a groundbreaking authorization system called Zanzibar, which was originally designed for Google to power Google Docs and YouTube.
- ▶ 3:38 Lenny Rachitsky Warrant's product is based on a groundbreaking authorization system called Zanzibar, which was originally designed for Google to power Google Docs and YouTube.
- ▶ 47:53 Brendan Foody Meta or Google, they have these incredible, intense early stage cultures of people just moving heaven and earth and doing whatever it takes to push the frontier of model capabilities.
The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
- ▶ 0:13 Ethan Smith At Google, they would win if their blue link showed up first, but that's not the case in the LM, because the LM is summarizing many citations, and so you need to get mentioned as many times as possible. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15 Lenny Rachitsky Everyone used to go to Google anytime they had a question or were looking for a product or doing research. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:42 Ethan Smith And, uh, that was probably the biggest shift, which is Google introduced a bunch of algorithms, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:46 Ethan Smith Panda and, and similar things to prevent you from doing spam.
- ▶ 9:24 Ethan Smith So it's not a long-term robust strategy to create spam, just like it wasn't a long-term robust strategy to create spam on Google. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:09 Ethan Smith So the average number of words, I think perplexity said this, or somebody else said it was around 25 words versus Google words, around six words. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:57 Ethan Smith Same with Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:42 Ethan Smith So in Google search, if I have a landing page about website builders, the more that my page answers all of the subtopic follow-up questions, the more I have to show up in Google search. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:01 Lenny Rachitsky As you talk, I think about, like, if you go to Google, no offense, Mr. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:54 Ethan Smith There's perplexity, there's Gemini, there's Chatshubiti, there's MetAI.
- ▶ 36:13 Lenny Rachitsky Is like Google equivalent now to ChatGPT? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:17 Ethan Smith So commerce actually now has more clickable cards like you would in a Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:20 Lenny Rachitsky Just coming back to this idea that like people are coming to ChatGPT, Collage, Gemini, looking for an answer.
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