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Bilton Uses NotebookLM to Parse Millions of Words for Research
“What's been interesting is I have this new project that we're doing,
And we've been using LLM, Google LLM's notebook.
And so now we stuff millions of words into these things and I can just query it.
Whereas before we had to build like Excel spreadsheets and da…”
Shaan Puri: 165 University Avenue housed Logitech, PayPal, Google, and Danger
“What you're looking at is one six five University Avenue, also known as the Lucky Office, also known as the Karma Building. You might recognize a little better here when you see one of the companies that was started here. So Google was started here. Before Goo…”
Puri: Jeff Bezos invested $250K early in Google
“Bezos invested 250 K pretty early in Google as well, which is kind of wild.”
Puri: David Cheriton invested $100k to $150k in Google's angel round
“He also writes a check in the same round. Again, like a hundred, 150,000 dollars.”
Bechtolsheim wrote Google's first $100k check before incorporation
“He writes them a check for a 100,000 dollars and he writes it out to Google Inc. And they're like, Google they're like, Hey we haven't even incorporated the company yet. And he goes, it doesn't matter.”
Puri: Google increased Maps API costs 14x to $14 per thousand calls
“So Google increased their Maps API costs, 14 X. So it went from a dollar to 14 dollars per thousand API calls.”
Puri: Sergey Brin made an impromptu appearance at a Bay Area hackathon
“During the hackathon, this guy walks in with this cool-looking jacket and, like, disheveled hair like he's been in, like, a cryogenic freezing tube for the last 10 years, and it's Sergey Brin, it's the founder of Google, just showing up at the hackathon, and h…”
Cody Ko's 'I'd Cap That' Hit Number One with Zero Marketing
“It was the number one app in the app store. Above like eBay and Google, and it was number one, and I paid zero dollars for marketing.”
Saville Paid for Senior College Year via Misspelled Poker Domain SEO
“Literally my last year of college, it was like paid for. I was basically like parents, like I've got this, you know, I've got room board, you know, the education because I'm making Free money basically online.”
SEO aggregators make millions selling senior living facility leads for $200 each
“Dude, I knew a guy who owned one of those search engines, and he was making a couple million bucks a year, and basically he would come up on top on Google, and then sell the lead for 200 dollars to your guy, and he would buy that lead, and then hopefully close…”
Parr: Coinbase's Chief Product Officer held a $600M stake at IPO
“This one dude left Google in order to become Coinbase's chief product officer. And when it went public, his stake was worth six hundred million dollars.”
Balaji: Print media revenue plunged from $65B to $17B post-2008
“After the financial crisis, print media dropped the revenue from like something like sixty five billion down to like seventeen billion while Google and Facebook were just going vertical like this.”
Parr: Kaggle Raised $12M Before Google Acquisition and Hosted 19M Engineers
“There's this thing called Kaggle, Kaggle competitions, where it was a startup that raised twelve million dollars. It was eventually bought by Google. According to their website, they've had nineteen million engineers compete in their competitions.”