Google

also referred to as: alphabet

includes Google Gemini, Google DeepMind, Google Brain, Google Search, Google Cloud, Google Ads, Google Glass, Google Veo, Google Maps, Google Slides, Google X, Google AdSense and 9 more

29 statements across 22 episodes · 19 bullish · 3 bearish · 23 people on the record · first statement Mar 3, 2024 by Alex Kolicich · said 310 times in 95 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

Mentions by year, the whole family

brought up most by Molly O'Shea (56), Michael Barton (14), Tomasz Tunguz (13), Alex Kolicich (10), Richard Socher (9), Art Levy (9), Nikesh Arora (8), Mark Bhargava (7)

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2026 122 mentions in 41 episodes 3 per episode
2025 136 mentions in 40 episodes 3 per episode
2024 52 mentions in 14 episodes 4 per episode

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Everything said about Google, oldest first

Mar 3, 2024 positive
Opinion
Kolicich: Perplexity Synthesizes Information Better Than Google Does
“I think perplexity is actually a very good product that, you know, does a better job on synthesizing information than even Google does.”
Alex Kolicich Mar 3, 2024 ▶ 21:19 Alex Kolicich, 8VC: Exodus of Venture Capital, AI Predictions · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Mar 3, 2024 neutral
Insight
Kolicich: Google's Defining AI Feature Is Reaction Speed Over Initial Errors
“And so just the defining feature will be how quickly Google can react versus, you know, mistakes they made at the beginning.”
Alex Kolicich Mar 3, 2024 ▶ 43:19 Alex Kolicich, 8VC: Exodus of Venture Capital, AI Predictions · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Mar 29, 2024
Assertion Contradicted
Power: Stripe and Google capped annual team headcount growth at exactly 30%
“Patrick Carlson from Stripe and also Eric Schmidt at Google basically had a hard and fast rule that you could only scale teams 30% a year without damaging the culture of the org.”
Chris Power Mar 29, 2024 ▶ 44:58 Get Tesla Big | Chris Power, Hadrian · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jan 23, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Tunguz: The $250B annual search marketing market is up for grabs
“There's two hundred fifty billion in search engine marketing spend every year, and so all of that is now totally up for grabs.”
Tomasz Tunguz Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 13:59 Inside Theory Ventures: Tomasz Tunguz’s $688M Thesis on Go-To-Market Disruption · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jan 23, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Tunguz: Microsoft, Google, and Meta each deploying $70B–$80B CapEx in 2025
“You have like Microsoft and Google and Meta each deploying something like 70 to eighty billion in capital expenditure, just buying GPUs and building data centers in just next year.”
Tomasz Tunguz Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 8:14 Inside Theory Ventures: Tomasz Tunguz’s $688M Thesis on Go-To-Market Disruption · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 23, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Whop CTO prefers Google Gemini for coding due to fewer hallucinations
“I'm bullish on Gemini right now. I use it. I use it for a lot of my code right now, and I go back and forth, and it's really good at not being delirious. Like, at the end, it circles back to what you asked, which is beautiful. So I'm bullish on Gemini. That's …”
Jack Sharky May 23, 2025 ▶ 52:02 How Whop Is Making $1.2+ Billion For Creators · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 28, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Only 35% of Wander's bookings come from paid marketing channels
“About 35% of our bookings come from higher cost channels, so think like Google and Facebook. The rest are all lower cost. So SEO influencer marketing, word of mouth”
John Andrew May 28, 2025 ▶ 51:16 How Wander Raised Over $100M+ to Reinvent Luxury Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Aug 18, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2030
Amoruso predicts Sergey Brin will be the world's first trillionaire
“You know, Sergey Brin was just on the All In podcast and talking about, you know, he jumped back into Google and is kind of all in on AI and, you know, he's like one of the smartest people I know. So I would, my bet would be Sergey.”
Sophia Amoruso Aug 18, 2025 ▶ 50:31 Raising a Trust Fund With Marc Andreessen & Paris Hilton | Sophia Amoruso · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Aug 27, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Agrawal: The best of Google is ahead of them in AI
“I feel like the best of Google is ahead of them.”
Apoorv Agrawal Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 8:16 Understanding OpenAI’s $500B Valuation · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Aug 27, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Agrawal: OpenAI's Consumer Business Could Reach $200B in Annual Revenue
“We think over time, The number of users could go up to three to four billion users. We think on the monetization side, over time, it could go from 10 today to 60, 70 dollars per user per year, which is where Meta and Google and other large consumer platforms a…”
Apoorv Agrawal Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 5:10 Understanding OpenAI’s $500B Valuation · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 19, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bain and eBay management concluded Google posed no threat to commerce
“I remember sitting in a management meeting at eBay after we got acquired and right after we got acquired and they hired some consulting firms, Bain actually, to analyze the threat posed by Google to commerce. And their conclusion as a management team and with …”
Keith Rabois Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 21:18 Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 10, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
O'Shea: Turing Reaches $300M+ Revenue and $2.2B Valuation Profitably
“Three hundred million plus in revenue and profitable. Two hundred and twenty-five million in funding at a last valuation of 2.2 billion. A network of four million engineers and customers that include OpenAI, NVIDIA, Anthropoc, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Salesfor…”
Molly O'Shea Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 3:02 Inside The $2.2B AI Research Accelerator | Turing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 10, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Siddharth: Turing works with seven of the eight frontier AI labs
“We work with seven out of the eight Frontier Labs. We work with OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, anybody that's building a Frontier Foundation model, we are probably working with them already.”
Jonathan Siddharth Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 3:32 Inside The $2.2B AI Research Accelerator | Turing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 23, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Barton: Google and OpenAI Pay Reddit ~$50M Annually for Training Data
“I think it's ballpark, fifty million dollars. For Google, so Google pays Reddit, fifty million dollars a year to kind of, ah, have trained in the past on it, but B, have updated data, and, ah, ChatGPT does the same thing.”
Michael Barton Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 1:03:08 Inside Coatue: $70B Hedge Fund’s AI & Retail Strategy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Nov 24, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Clark: OpenAI will endure in the near term like Meta or Google
“I think the beauty is one, hopefully open AI is going to be an enduring technology. And so I'd be very surprised if in the near term we were talking about an after open AI, you know, is there an after meta or an after Google?”
Philip Clark Nov 24, 2025 ▶ 47:19 Inside Thrive Capital: Investing in OpenAI, Wiz, Cursor, Nudge, Physical Intelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Nov 24, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Clark: Thrive Capital is an investor in Isomorphic Labs
“There's isomorphic labs, Thrive is a very proud investor in which is alphabets, drug discovery And life sciences, AI portfolio.”
Philip Clark Nov 24, 2025 ▶ 56:42 Inside Thrive Capital: Investing in OpenAI, Wiz, Cursor, Nudge, Physical Intelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Dec 13, 2025 positive
Opinion
Michael: Tech worker opposition to defense contracting has dramatically shrunk
“I think those days are over and the number or percentage of people that will say that about a Palantir or Google or any one other company has shrunk so much that hopefully it doesn't matter.”
Emil Michael Dec 13, 2025 ▶ 25:10 Inside the Myths: Emil Michael on Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril & the Modern DoW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Dec 27, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Mignano: Earlier-stage AI startups should IPO to capture retail investor demand
“Maybe more AI companies should be going public because there's clearly a lot of demand for it. And if you're a public market, you know, if you're a public investor, a public market investor, a retail investor, you don't really have a lot of choices, right? You…”
Michael Mignano Dec 27, 2025 ▶ 43:54 Why Lightspeed Bet on xAI, Neuralink, Suno, Granola, & Pika | Michael Mignano · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jan 23, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ramaswamy: Google Ads Targeted 5% Quarterly RPM Growth
“For pretty much the entirety of my stay at, ah, Google, we took what's called an OKR, an objective, to increase RPM, which is how much revenue we made per thousand queries, by five percent every quarter. Every single quarter during my time there, we took that …”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Jan 23, 2026 ▶ 26:05 Snowflake vs Databricks: The AI Data War | CEO of $SNOW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jan 23, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
Ramaswamy: Google Search Ads scaled from $1.6B to $100B under his tenure
“Where a product that I was personally leading, search ads, went from a billion and a half, 1.6 billion dollars in revenue in oh three, the day I started as an engineer in that team, to making a hundred billion dollars the year that I left, 2018.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Jan 23, 2026 ▶ 24:42 Snowflake vs Databricks: The AI Data War | CEO of $SNOW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Mar 11, 2026 positive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Raanan: Sequoia held a 'how can we do better' meeting post-Google IPO
“A day after the Google IPO, which was back then the biggest financial event for Sequoia, there was a whole, all hands meeting at the office with the title of how can we do better?”
Gilly Raanan Mar 11, 2026 ▶ 1:28:58 Wiz: $6M Seed → $32B Exit | Inside the Biggest Cybersecurity Deal Ever · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Mar 13, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2031
Immerman: Larry Page will be the world's second trillionaire
“Would probably put my money today on Larry Page quarter trillion. Google, Google, or should say Alphabet has like woken up. They own, you know, close to a hundred percent of search. They own a hundred percent of deep mind. They own like mid teens percentage of…”
Alex Immerman Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 47:34 Inside a16z Growth: Waymo, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Revolut, Coinbase, Kalshi · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Mar 20, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Huffman: Reddit data has trained every major LLM, with or without permission
“Reddit's data has been used to train every large language model you've heard of, some with and others without our permission, which has, you know, been a situation to navigate but with our biggest partners, Google and OpenAI, you know, we do it on purpose, and…”
Steve Huffman Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 19:49 How Reddit Went From $12M to $2.2B + Cracked Social Media Monetization · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Apr 15, 2026
Assertion Supported
Happi: Hyperscalers plan $1 trillion in data center capex
“Like the, Google's of the world and so and so forth. They're planning on investing a trillion dollars in capex and data centers over the next couple of years.”
Hannan Happi Apr 15, 2026 ▶ 27:01 Inside the Factory Using Rocks & Sunlight to Fix AI's Power Problem | Exowatt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 15, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Rangwalla: Coatue favors Amazon and Google as hybrid shortage players
“I actually think Amazon and Google are an unusual camp, and those are the two companies that we really like because they are also a bit of a hybrid, in that Google has TPUs that they sell, and Amazon has talked about selling Tranium, or at least openly discuss…”
Jaimin Rangwalla May 15, 2026 ▶ 40:09 Chips, Gigawatts, AI, & Agents: Coatue's Public Markets Update | CIO Jaimin Rangwalla · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 15, 2026 bearish
Assertion Supported
Coatue: Most Mag Seven Stocks Underperformed Nasdaq, Three Down YTD
“Outside of Alphabet, so many of the Mac sevens have underperformed the Nasdaq by a lot. And in fact, three of them are down year to date.”
Coatue Investor Update May 15, 2026 ▶ 13:17 Chips, Gigawatts, AI, & Agents: Coatue's Public Markets Update | CIO Jaimin Rangwalla · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 10, 2026 positive
Insight
Banister: Google used its mobile game Ingress to crowdsource free mapping data
“Google ultimately is a mapping company, They're gathering points of information. They're getting these players to take pictures of it, categorize it, tell them exactly where it is, and to scan that, that, that information. It's basically like free mapping data…”
Cyan Banister Jul 10, 2026 ▶ 45:22 "Dig Through Your Couches. SpaceX Needs It." Cyan Banister on Luke Nosek's Pitch · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 13, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Feldman: Google TPU Co-Design with Gemini and DeepMind Is a Major Advantage
“One of the advantages Google has is that their TPU can be designed in collaboration with the team building Gemini or the team of DeepMind, and so they can inform their choices back and forth, and that's an enormously powerful thing that is surprisingly relativ…”
Andrew Feldman Jul 13, 2026 ▶ 17:18 Andrew Feldman on Building a Chip 58x Larger Than Nvidia's · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 19, 2026 positive
Insight
Agrawal: Enterprises must plan for multi-model routing over single-lab lock-in
“So if you're a CIO, if you're a CEO, if you're about to make a multi-million, billion-dollar decision of which lab to build your intelligence on, plan for the climate, not for the weather. What does that mean? That's multi-model routing. That's evals. That's t…”
Apoorv Agrawal Jul 19, 2026 ▶ 35:54 SemiAnalysis, Altimeter, Nebius, Glean.. 12 Hot Takes From Biggest Names in AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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