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86 statements across 47 episodes · 38 bullish · 22 bearish · 39 people on the record · first statement Apr 25, 2023 by Sridhar Ramaswamy · said 697 times in 126 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Elad Gil (218), Sarah Guo (105), Sridhar Ramaswamy (30), Matthew Prince (27), Mustafa Suleyman (19), Dylan Patel (15), Oriol Vinyals (13), Emad Mostaque (10)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 59 mentions in 17 episodes 3 per episode
- AI for Atoms: How Periodic Labs is Revolutionizing Materials Engineering with Co-Founder Liam Fedus
- Chasing Trillion-Dollar Companies, Founder Ambition, Token Budgets, & Regulatory Capture
- Rethinking Legacy Data Infrastructure with Eon Co-Founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein
- The AI Code Slop: Risk or Opportunity?
- Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang
- Redefining Chip Architecture with Arm CEO Rene Haas
- Building an Autonomous Enterprise for Real-World Services with Netic Founder Melisa Tokmak
- Coinbase’s Everything Exchange: Agentic Finance, Stablecoins & Tokenization with CEO Brian Armstrong
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 205 mentions in 37 episodes 6 per episode
- No Priors Ep. 126 | With Cloudfare CEO Matthew Prince
- No Priors Ep. 139 | With Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy
- No Priors Ep. 127 | With SemiAnalysis Founder and CEO Dylan Patel
- No Priors Ep. 115 | With Glean Founder and CEO Arvind Jain
- No Priors | With Palo Alto Networks CEO & Former Chief Business Officer of Google Nikesh Arora
- No Priors Ep. 137 | With Warp Co-Founder & CEO Zach Lloyd
- No Priors Ep. 120 | With Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Matej Balog
- No Priors Ep. 124 | With SurgeAI Founder and CEO Edwin Chen
- 29 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 158 mentions in 34 episodes 5 per episode
- No Priors Ep. 74 | With Google DeepMind VP of Research Oriol Vinyals
- No Priors Ep. 54 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
- No Priors Ep. 77 | With Foundry CEO and Founder Jared Quincy Davis
- No Priors Ep. 81 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
- No Priors Ep. 65 | With Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang
- No Priors Ep. 49 | With Shopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates
- No Priors Ep. 82 | With CEO of Sierra Bret Taylor
- No Priors Ep. 87 | With Co-CEO of Waymo Dmitri Dolgov
- 26 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 275 mentions in 38 episodes 7 per episode
- No Priors Ep. 37 | With Kawal Gandhi
- No Priors Ep. 8 | With Neeva’s Sridhar Ramaswamy
- No Priors Ep. 16 | With Mustafa Suleyman, Founder of DeepMind and Inflection
- No Priors Ep. 9 | With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
- No Priors Ep. 18 | With Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft
- No Priors Ep. 17 | With Karan Singhal
- No Priors Ep. 12 | With Noam Shazeer
- No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
- 30 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
Everything said about Google, oldest first
Apr 25, 2023
Ramaswamy: Google Featured Snippets Never Passed 7 Percent Coverage
“Things like featured snippets were never deployable at scale. The technology simply was not there. Even if Google put the full might of its mighty machine against the problem, the coverage never really extended beyond like five, six, seven percent, and it woul…”
Apr 25, 2023 bullish
Apr 25, 2023 negative
Apr 25, 2023 neutral
Apr 25, 2023
Apr 25, 2023 positive
Ramaswamy: Flash Let Neeva Solve Index Replacement Faster Than Google
“Asim, for example was just brilliant at engineering a system that ran completely on Flash in which we could do things like super rapid iteration, replace the entire index or the space of two days or put in arbitrary amounts of information for experimentation i…”
Apr 25, 2023 neutral
Apr 25, 2023 neutral
Apr 25, 2023 positive
Apr 25, 2023 bearish
Apr 25, 2023 bearish
Apr 25, 2023 bearish
Apr 25, 2023 neutral
Apr 25, 2023 positive
Daniel de Freitas Built Google's Meena as a Scrappy 20% Project
“Like he started the thing as like a 20% project where like people are encouraged to spend 20% of their time, like doing whatever they want. So and then he just, like, recruited, like, an army of, like, 20% helpers who were, like, ignoring their day jobs and, l…”
Apr 27, 2023 neutral
Gil: AI value capture will likely be 80% incumbents, 20% startups
“And it feels like in this wave, it's probably eighty-twenty again, right? It's probably, Google will probably become a player, right? OpenAI is closely aligned with Microsoft. And then, you know Salesforce with AI is probably Salesforce, right? It probably isn…”
May 3, 2023 bullish
May 4, 2023 positive
May 11, 2023 bearish
May 11, 2023 negative
Google inadvertently degraded internet content by optimizing for ads and SEO
“The problem with what Google has sort of, I guess, in a way accidentally done to the internet is that it has basically. Shaped content production in a way that optimizes for ads. And everything is now SEO'd to within an inch of its life.”
May 11, 2023 neutral
Suleyman and others aggressively pushed Google to launch LLMs in 2021
“While I was there, sort of in the last year in twenty-twenty-one, I tried pretty hard to get things launched at Google. We were all kind of banging on the table, being like, come on, this is the future, and you know obviously David Luan from Adept was also in …”
May 11, 2023 negative
Google search is an appallingly painful conversation mediated by blue links
“Conversation is the future interface. And Google is already a conversation. It's just an appallingly painful one, right? You say something to Google, it gives you an answer in 10 blue links. You say something about those 10 blue links by clicking on it. You, i…”
May 18, 2023 positive
Singhal: Medical AI is an ideal testbed for safety and alignment
“I think there's a good chance that this setting, this medical setting for example, medical question answering,
Or maybe more broadly, I think ends up being a better scenario to study concerns about technical safety and to mitigate concerns like misaligned with…”
May 18, 2023
May 18, 2023 neutral
May 18, 2023
Singhal: Med-PaLM and Med-PaLM 2 were trained without patient health information
“Like for example, MedPOM and MedPOM-II are trained without any patient health information. They, they're just kind of taking all the knowledge of POM and POM-II and then just kind of Aligning them and making them behave in a certain way.”
May 24, 2023 positive
Scott is not worried about major AI competitors behaving unsafely
“The thing that I will say is we fiercely compete with a whole bunch of these folks. But, like, one of the things that I don't do is, like, look at any of those companies that you just named and, like, worry that they're going to do something that like, is, lik…”
May 24, 2023 negative
Scott: Early Google hiring lacked direction, leading engineers to zero-impact projects
“We were hiring these brilliant, brilliant people at the time, and the way that we did hiring was kind of crazy. It's like, all right, well, if you're smart, just come work here. And like, we have no idea like what exactly it is you're going to do. And you like…”
May 24, 2023 positive
Kevin Scott: OpenAI's size and energy resemble early Google
“When I go sit In OpenAI, it really reminds me of early Google days, and it's about the same size Google was when I joined, and so, like, I couldn't figure it out for a while, and I was like, wow, this is, like, really giving me, like, you know, early Google no…”
May 24, 2023 positive
Jul 20, 2023 neutral
Gil: Infrastructure Costs Drove YouTube's Early Acquisition by Google
“One of the reasons YouTube sold was the infrastructure point you made earlier, where just dealing with that huge amount of streaming and the costs associated with it and everything else, even in the prior generation of just, you know, can we host and stream th…”
Aug 3, 2023
Aug 17, 2023 positive
Khan: Internalized knowledge and mathematical fluency matter more in the AI era
“The more that you have rapid access to knowledge in your head, the more that you are fluent with your mathematics, that you have information and concepts at the tip of your fingers, these tools will accelerate you more than anyone else. And the kid that has to…”
Sep 14, 2023 negative
Oct 5, 2023 positive
Oct 5, 2023 positive
Gil: Google paper shows AI feedback matches human feedback in specific cases
“Google just came out with a really interesting paper on that, where, you know, they showed that you can have an AI similarly provide feedback to whether the AI itself is generating good output. And for certain use cases, that works as well as people.”
Oct 12, 2023 negative
Halligan: Mass AI content creation won't work for LLM discovery
“One of the things that's not going to work is using AI to just create tons of content. I think Sam Altman and all the people building the other models are going to look at similar signals to Google. They're going to say how many links are into the site with th…”
Oct 19, 2023 positive
Oct 26, 2023 neutral
Noon: Cybersecurity incumbents acquire startups because early-stage efficacy is unpredictable
“There's a, you know, like a truism that all cybersecurity products are just, you know, complex insurance policies or whatever, right? But the point is like that, that mushiness exists. And so what has resulted in, in, in the free market here is these incredibl…”
Oct 26, 2023 negative
Jan 31, 2024 neutral
Guo: Specialized AI will fracture search from a single unified market
“We're at this very, I think, special moment where the technology and perhaps the like user behavior, the expectation, if we take out like slices of it, where the expectation is very different and get people to think about pieces of search Because it's not at a…”
Jan 31, 2024 neutral
Coates: Perplexity sits exactly between ChatGPT's interface and Google's search
“The sort of the triangle of like perplexity, Google, ChatGPT of like, it's basically like LLM native search and like ChatGPT really good at the LLM interface thing, not amazing at search yet. Google amazing at search, not really figured out the LLM thing yet. …”
Jan 31, 2024 negative
Mar 7, 2024 neutral
Mar 7, 2024 bullish
Gil: Longer context windows will prove more important than expected for biology
“I think for certain application areas, like biology, longer context windows actually seem to be quite important. And so, for example, if you're doing a protein folding model and you have a short context window, you're often actually not encapsulating much of t…”
Mar 7, 2024 positive
Guo: Google's unreleased internal multimodal and function-calling capabilities are highly impressive
“Gemini is a very impressive model. I think the capabilities that they have internally that they haven't released yet around additional, like, function calling and multimodality are also really, really impressive”
Mar 7, 2024 bullish
Gil: Competitive pressure has reignited Google's will to make major AI strides
“And so really, I think the thing that was lacking until recently was the will. And it seems like now, because of the competitive dynamic, the will has been reborn, right? And so it really feels to me like they are gonna make really big strides going forward.”
May 22, 2024 negative
Alexandr Wang: Multimodality is a lateral move; the industry needs smarter models.
“So, you know, we got multi-modality capability.
That's exciting.
It's more of a lateral expansion of the models, and the industry needs smarter models.
We need GPT-V, or we need Gemini-II, or whatever that, those models are going to be.
and so to me it was, y…”
Aug 1, 2024 positive
Vinyals: Gemini Reasons Over Entire Books Rather Than Compressing to Single Vectors
“The problem with, of course, retrieval based methods is they tend to simplify things to say, hey, like this whole book is just a single vector. Whereas if you just upload a whole book into Gemini and ask questions, it can really reason about every single word,…”
Aug 29, 2024 negative
Garman says Google and Microsoft forced new app paradigms in early cloud
“I think if you look at some of those others like Google and later Microsoft they kind of went at this space for first, we were the first ones out there that had anything like this, but even soon after that, I think they went after the space, like that was goin…”
Sep 19, 2024 bullish
Oct 17, 2024 bullish
Oct 17, 2024 positive
Oct 24, 2024 positive
Google's self-driving project pivoted from ADAS to full autonomy in 2013
“And actually our first product that we thought was going to be viable was, you know, what nowadays you would call kind of an advanced driver system, right? And we had some expectations of, you know, a small number of years that it would take for us to get ther…”
Dec 6, 2024 neutral
Simons: System prompts are not a moat, like viewing source on Google
“It's not going to be, you know, the system prompt kind of a, you know, for those who have done web development, it's kind of like view sourcing on a webpage. Like you can go to google.com, you can view source. No one so far has kind of done that and built anot…”
Mar 20, 2025 negative
Apr 10, 2025
Gil: Google's Med-PaLM 2 outperformed individual physicians in panel evaluations
“Where MedPalm II, where the output of the model was better than the average physician. It was basically like a health model, the Google Belt, and they would use physician panels to rate Outputs of the model versus individual physicians, and the model did bette…”
Apr 10, 2025 neutral
Gil: Early Google hired well but fired poorly, unlike early Facebook
“Google was a good example of a organization that would always hire well, but couldn't fire well. It took them a really long time to clean people out. Years, like literally years. Facebook, on the other hand, was kind of known for a more mixed early talent pool…”
May 15, 2025 neutral
May 15, 2025
Glean Built Custom Enterprise Embeddings on Top of BERT
“We started with this BERT model that Google had put in open domain, which was trained on all of the internet's, you know, data and knowledge. And we would then take those models and then for every customer of ours, we'd actually build custom embeddings, you kn…”
May 15, 2025
Jain: Users adopted Glean search immediately but struggled with conversational Assistant
“Everybody has been trained over the last 20 years to actually type in, you know, one or two keywords, like Google has sort of taught us, you know, on what search can do. So with search, we never had a problem. Like, you know, we launched our product, we had, l…”
May 15, 2025 negative
Jain: Finding internal information inside Google was super hard
“Even at Google, like, it was a big joke, you know, always we had internally, like, you know, All of us were spending all of our time making it easy for people to find things, but not us internally at Google. It's super hard to find anything inside the company.”
Jun 5, 2025 positive
Jun 12, 2025 positive
Jun 26, 2025 bullish
Balog: AlphaEvolve improves Google data center efficiency, hardware design, and software
“So, so we show that AlphaEvolve can improve the efficiency of the data center. It can contribute to hardware design, and it can contribute to improving the efficiency of most important pieces of software that that are being run inside Google.”
Jun 26, 2025 positive
Balog: DeepMind benchmarked AlphaEvolve against heavily optimized Google infrastructure problems
“The problems we chose to apply Alpha Evolve to in the first instance both on the scientific side and the practical side, We deliberately chose problems which have been worked on for a very long time by the very best people. So on the, you know, on the scientif…”
Jun 26, 2025 positive
Balog: AlphaEvolve algorithms are already deployed in Google's infrastructure
“Alpha Evolve is an AI coding agent that is able to discover new algorithms that are able to make new discoveries on open scientific problems. And at the same time, those algorithms can be so practical that they are already deployed in keep Key parts of Google'…”
Jul 31, 2025 neutral
Aug 7, 2025 negative
Prince: AI companies fear Google most due to its privileged content access
“Why Google is so important is when you talk to all of the other AI companies, Google is the one company that they're the most afraid of. And that the reason that they're most afraid of them is because they think that they have privileged access to content in a…”
Aug 7, 2025 negative
Aug 7, 2025 negative
Aug 14, 2025 bearish
Aug 14, 2025 positive
Aug 14, 2025 bullish
Patel: AMD, Trainium, or TPUs will beat chip startups as NVIDIA alternatives
“I probably think that like AMD GPUs or Amazon's Tranium will be probably more likely to be a best second choice. For people or Google TPU, of course, but I think Google is just more interested in it for internal workloads. I just think that those will be much …”
Aug 21, 2025 positive
Ng: Startups gain an advantage over incumbents by building for a single persona
“So it turns out one advantage that startups have is while you are early, you can serve kind of one user profile. Today, you know, if you're, I don't know, like Google, right? Google serves such a diverse set of user personas, you really have to think about a l…”
Sep 5, 2025 bullish
Nadler: OpenEvidence is NEJM's largest traffic referrer after Google
“You know, I think we're one of the largest sources of referral traffic to the England Journal of Medicine after Google. The rankings, I don't know if they're number two or three or four, but we're one of the largest sources of referral traffic to our partner i…”
Oct 2, 2025 bullish
Arora: Only two or three companies worldwide have billion-user distribution
“There are two or three companies in the world which have distribution of the billions, and whether it's Facebook with all their properties, whether it's Apple with their properties, Google with their properties, so they have the distribution.”
Oct 31, 2025 neutral
Jain: Glean's largest customer holds over 1 billion internal documents
“One of our largest customers. They have more than one billion documents inside their company. Now hear this, you know, when Alain and I, you know, when we were working on search, At Google, you know, in 2004, the entire internet was actually one billion docume…”
Nov 6, 2025 negative
Ramaswamy: Why Google Failed in Shopping and Travel
“Google, for example, stopped that information. God knows I spent enough time trying to get into physical things like shopping or airline purchases or hotels. We didn't really succeed because we didn't have core competence really in some fundamental way beyond …”
Nov 6, 2025 positive
Nov 6, 2025 negative
Ramaswamy: Google's PageRank Ran Out of Juice by 2004
“The insight that powered Google was PageRank. It was a way of harnessing the power of the entire internet to figure out what was popular and what was not. But PageRank ran out of juice. Like in six years, like 2004 or five. And while Google never really liked …”
Dec 5, 2025 neutral
Feb 19, 2026 bullish
Gil: AI labs scaled from $1B to $10B revenue in one year
“ADP Took 20 something years to grow from a billion to ten billion in revenue. And then the next wave of companies like Adobe took about 20 years to go from one to 10. And then you fast forward in time and you have things like Salesforce or SAPs for an even mor…”
Aug 6, 2026 positive
Gil: Displaced Big Tech engineers will be absorbed by traditional enterprises
“So even if there is some displacement of engineers at some point in the future, I don't know when that is or if it happens, but if it does happen, there's lots and lots of homes for them. Because there's tons of enterprises that never had the capability set or…”
Aug 27, 2026 positive
Ehrlich says Google bought bankrupt Spirit Airlines' data for $10 million
“Google buy something from the bankrupt Spirit Airlines. They didn't buy airplanes. They bought the data. They bought the data for ten million dollars, because they think it's very important in that perspective, they're using it to train models.”
Sep 3, 2026 positive
Haas: Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Backed Arm's Physical Chip Strategy
“So whether it was Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, All people who build ARM-based server chips, they were all on board, and I think the ultimate proof point was when we announced the product last March, we had Jensen, we had Ronnie Boker, we had Amin, we had…”
Sep 10, 2026 positive
Armstrong: Coinbase contributed x402 to Linux Foundation with Google and AWS
“We're seeing a lot of agentic payment now flow over these new protocols, like x-for-o-two, which is one that we incubated at Coinbase that we actually put into the Linux foundation. So Google and Cloudflare and AWS, a bunch of people are working with us on tha…”