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Why Lightspeed Bet on xAI, Neuralink, Suno, Granola, & Pika | Michael Mignano · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 27, 2025 · 3 mentions

Inside the Myths: Emil Michael on Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril & the Modern DoW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 13, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 24:59 Emil Michael And Google bailed because their employees were like, no, you can't. 2 times in the scene

Inside General Catalyst’s $1.5B AI Roll-Up Machine · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 5, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 0:13 Mark Bhargava So as the models get better, whether it's OpenAI or Anthropic or Google or XAI or others, we really do think there'll be a lot of new companies that can be built on top of this technology.
  • ▶ 6:36 Mark Bhargava So as the models get better, whether it's OpenAI or Anthropic or Google or XAI or others, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:50 Mark Bhargava And of course, the hyperscalers like Amazon and Google and Microsoft.
  • ▶ 40:19 Mark Bhargava And honestly, an incumbent like Microsoft or Amazon or Google that has the distribution can just push the software. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:24 Mark Bhargava It can be part of your Google workplace or your prime subscription.

What Travis Kalanick Taught Bradley Tusk, & Why He Closed His VC Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 29, 2025 · 1 mention

Inside Thrive Capital: Investing in OpenAI, Wiz, Cursor, Nudge, Physical Intelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 24, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 7:48 Philip Clark So we moved all of our software workloads to the likes of AWS and GCP and Azure.
  • ▶ 8:24 Philip Clark Another sort of amazing success story in a very short amount of time, and, and Google announced acquisition of that company.
  • ▶ 47:23 Philip Clark 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?
  • ▶ 51:14 Philip Clark It turned out that if you invested in Google in 1999, in 2001, in 2004, in 2005, and you were a long-term investor at Google, you might have had some variability in returns. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 56:42 Philip Clark There's, uh, isomorphic labs, Thrive is a very proud investor in, uh, which is, uh, alphabets, drug discovery, uh,

How Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, & David Ulevitch Started a16z’s American Dynamism Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 18, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:25 David Ulevitch In 2018, Google had bailed out of Project Maven, and there was a big protest inside Google, and people decided they 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:32 David Ulevitch This is when, in 2018, Google had bailed out of Project Maven. 4 times in the scene

Sequoia’s Alfred Lin: Backing Founders Who Redefine Markets · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 30, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:26 Alfred Lin Make one be the company, you know, and for, for the cloud, there's AWS, there's GCP, there's Asher, because if I am Goldman Sachs, I want to be able to trade off and be able to use all of them.
  • ▶ 39:31 Alfred Lin Um, in three decades, it could be a hundred billion to a trillion, Apple, Google, NVIDIA.

Alfred Lin, Inside Sequoia: Launching $200M Seed Fund & $750M Venture Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 27, 2025 · 1 mention

Inside Coatue: $70B Hedge Fund’s AI & Retail Strategy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 23, 2025 · 14 mentions

  • ▶ 13:46 Michael Barton Google search, which, you know, grew, search, maybe people thought it was going to grow sub 10%. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:12 Michael Barton I go on Google and type in, you know, red shoes to go skateboarding in, and it would come up with a list of results.
  • ▶ 50:21 Michael Barton And then you've got Google, who basically is the labs plus the cursor, 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 59:45 Michael Barton If OpenAI wants to have a shopping assistant, right, all the reviews in the world are on Google. 7 times in the scene

Incubating Brain Co: Elad Gil’s AI Bet with Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 20, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:16 Elad Gil That was Google to some extent in search.
  • ▶ 8:52 Elad Gil They'd be working at OpenAI or they'd be working at Google or they'd be working at some of these great companies.

Elad Gil of Gil Capital, Gil & Co. & Enigma Global · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 17, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:55 Molly O'Shea So doing some deep research on you, you have had a very interesting, unexpected career, Google, Twitter, color genomics.
  • ▶ 30:57 Elad Gil They got offered, what was it, like a percent or two of Google at the time as, as they were raising their series A.
  • ▶ 34:32 Elad Gil Google's a giant market.

Inside The $2.2B AI Research Accelerator | Turing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 10, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:09 Molly O'Shea And customers that include OpenAI, NVIDIA, Anthropik, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Salesforce, Amazon, and I'm sure a lot more.
  • ▶ 3:13 Molly O'Shea A network of four million engineers and customers that include OpenAI, NVIDIA, Anthropoc, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Salesforce, Amazon, and I'm sure a lot more.
  • ▶ 3:37 Jonathan Siddharth Uh, 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.
  • ▶ 25:21 Jonathan Siddharth Uh, if you remember, uh, from the Alpha Zero days, uh, when DeepMind was teaching their Go playing algorithm, the first version of, um, uh, Google's, uh, AlphaGo system, uh, learned from expert humans, which was quite good.
  • ▶ 25:21 Jonathan Siddharth Uh, if you remember, uh, from the Alpha Zero days, uh, when DeepMind was teaching their Go playing algorithm, the first version of, um, uh, Google's, uh, AlphaGo system, uh, learned from expert humans, which was quite good.

CEOs of Epirus & Galvanick on the Future of Defense & Cybersecurity · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 5, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:07 Joshua Steinman I pulled some really fantastic folks out of Google and Uber and a few other like niche shops around town.

Vibe Coding, AI Valuations & the Supercycle | Navin Chaddha, Mayfield · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:17 Navin Chaddha Uh, you look at cloud providers, Google, Microsoft, AWS, they're all two, three, four trillion dollar companies.

Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 19, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 21:18 Keith Rabois But, um, 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. 4 times in the scene

Inside Klarna's IPO CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:28 Sebastian Siemiatkowski The information that's necessary for us to take care of Sephora in a great way and offer our services and upsell them on new ideas or whatever it might be, it's stuck in Salesforce, in some analytics dashboards, in Google Slides, in…

Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 10, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 0:11 Pete Shadbolt I really worry that leadership at Google or NVIDIA or whatever is completely misled about the impact of the technology and when it's going to come. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:31 Pete Shadbolt And, you know, Google has recently demonstrated
  • ▶ 12:18 Pete Shadbolt I worry that because of all of that hype and because it's a pretty involved, challenging field to understand, I really worry that like leadership at Google or Nvidia or whatever is 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:04:27 Molly O'Shea I had no idea, and then you showed me on, on Google Maps. 2 times in the scene

Ashlee Vance: Stories from Elon, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson & Priscilla Chan · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 8, 2025 · 1 mention

Meme Lord CEO Raises $22.5M Series A for Hello Patient · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 4, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:26 Alex Cohen If you go on Google, and you search for dentists, and you call, and they don't answer, you're probably calling the next one, and the next one, the next one, so someone picks up, says they take your insurance, offers you an appointment, and…
  • ▶ 8:58 Molly O'Shea You also got fired by Google. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:00 Alex Cohen So if you go on Google and you search for a dentist and you're looking for a new dentist, like, and you usually are yearly to get a cleaning or something like that.
  • ▶ 45:05 Alex Cohen I don't recommend just, like, googling and buying the first one that comes up.

Inside the $750B+ Thiel Fellowship · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Aug 29, 2025 · 2 mentions

Understanding OpenAI’s $500B Valuation · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Aug 27, 2025 · 9 mentions

Raising a Trust Fund With Marc Andreessen & Paris Hilton | Sophia Amoruso · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Aug 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:31 Sophia Amoruso 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, I know.

Rainmaker’s Secret AI Plan for Superintelligent Weather | Cloud Seeding · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Aug 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:27 Alex Levy So you remember AlphaFold, this, you know, amazing work from, from DeepMind, uh, in which they solve protein folding.

Nuclear Race to Power Superintelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Aug 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:49 Isaiah Taylor You have enough people that Google, you know, how large is nuclear waste, or how safe are nuclear reactors, and they start to actually read about it and understand it, and it doesn't last for that long.

Nat Friedman Leads $15M in Superintelligence Insurance Company | AIUC · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 23, 2025 · 2 mentions

Inside Hadrian's $260M Series C to Advance Manufacturing in America · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:35 Chris Power I mean, the number one thing that we did that was important was have software engineers get excited about automating manufacturing again, versus getting stuck at Google, you know, optimizing ad clicks or trading cat pictures on the…

Brex’s Road to IPO and The Golden Age of M&A · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 10, 2025 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 0:05 Art Levy Google, buy Wiz, thirty-two billion.
  • ▶ 16:47 Art Levy And so even in the last 12 months, we've seen Google by Wiz, thirty-two billion, but again, Google's market cap is two trillion. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:34 Art Levy And basically I think that what's happening now is the consolidators, the Googles, the metas, the, you know, open AI is rapidly becoming one of these companies is sort of saying, Hey, like,
  • ▶ 45:47 Art Levy So maybe you then figure out a way to talk to Google and, and open AI or something like that, or you hire a banker to run a process.
  • ▶ 47:26 Art Levy Because as soon as you get folks excited, it's a little bit like raising around, but at an extreme, as soon as people at the company, even if it's just your CFO knows and he sees dollar signs or she sees dollar signs because like Google
  • ▶ 1:28:27 Art Levy And how it takes away from Google's. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:32:21 Art Levy There was a lawsuit against a company called IO that, uh, or sorry, the company called IO that spun out of Google X is suing John Ives and, uh, uh, OpenAI, and that was a, uh, headphone company, like an earbud company.

Why a16z Bet $15 Million on THIS Controversial Startup · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 3, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 26:28 Brian Kim Think about how much input you give Google and how much input you give ChatGPT. 2 times in the scene

How Jack Altman Hit 100x Growth | Uncapped, AI, VC, Founders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 27, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 32:43 Molly O'Shea But it was launched, um, it was published, I think, around the same time as Google VO three, um, same kind of narrative. 2 times in the scene

Cluely Raises $15 Million From a16z | Roy Lee, Founder & CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 20, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 38:44 Roy Lee Whoever has the same thing that Google had when they put out Gmail and killed Yahoo Mail. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 38:48 Roy Lee Same thing that Google had when they put out search and they beat Bing.
  • ▶ 45:30 Molly O'Shea Like, VO just came out. 2 times in the scene

How Browserbase Raised $67.5M to Power AI Agents & Vibe Coders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 17, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 28:52 Molly O'Shea But I, I know your point on the deep fakes in the video, like I, the Google V-E-O, V-O, however you want to say it, three, is insane.
  • ▶ 51:46 Paul Klein I think the, the DeepMind lab has been doing a really fantastic job. 2 times in the scene

How Wander Raised Over $100M+ to Reinvent Luxury Travel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 28, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 51:16 John Andrew Yeah, so about 35% of our bookings come from higher cost channels, so think like Google and Facebook.
  • ▶ 59:21 John Andrew I was talking with someone about that idea of, like, Google is only 20, 25 years old.

How Altimeter's $10B AUM Fund Is Investing In Aerospace, Defense, & Hardtech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:41 Eric Crispin I, I enjoy it for like really basic question answers, kind of like basic Google search type of stuff, but if I'm like, like trying to understand something, or doing more research, or more like longer form questions, I do all that in…

Windsurf: The Making of a Billion-Dollar AI Company | Leigh Marie Braswell, Kleiner Perkins · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 2, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:34 Molly O'Shea Um, the firm has invested into Sun Microsystems, AOL, Intuit, Amazon, Google, Zynga, Looker, Slack, X, Spotify, Square, Brex, Plaid, Robinhood, Rippling, Glean, Figma, and many, many more.

Superpower Raises $30M Series A Led by Forerunner · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 22, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:50 Jacob Peters Um, people go to ChatGPT or Google or WebMD before they talk to, talk to their doctor.

Inside the $350M Pelosi Stock Tracker · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 18, 2025 · 1 mention

Arielle Zuckerberg, "The Rizz & Tiz" Winning Founder Recipe · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:23 Arielle Zuckerberg I actually, I saw an Instagram reel the other day, um, where it was kind of like the millennial and the Gen Zer talking about what tools they use, and the millennial was like, Google, and the Gen Zer was like, ChatGPT, and then it was…

How Kalshi Built a $2 Billion Prediction Market · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 28, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:58 Tarek Mansoor I mean, you know, I, I grew up in, I mean, I was born in California, I grew up in Lebanon, like, you know, the, the anecdote, like, two, two specific things that tell, I mean, maybe summarize how I grew up, like, one, I, I grew up till…

Taking on an $80 Billion Dollar Market with Gen Z | Dylan Diamond · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:12 Dylan Diamond And, uh, I think the reason my co-founder Max partnered up with me was he saw the early Google analytics data back in like 2019 from Staples and saw that

Inside Theory Ventures: Tomasz Tunguz’s $688M Thesis on Go-To-Market Disruption · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 23, 2025 · 16 mentions

  • ▶ 3:04 Tomasz Tunguz It means that Google search model is totally up for grabs.
  • ▶ 6:58 Molly O'Shea So we have Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Apple. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:45 Tomasz Tunguz There's a big push now to make the smaller models much more accurate, which they are like the five, five, four, five, four model from Microsoft and the Gemma models from Google are incredibly small, incredibly potent.
  • ▶ 13:03 Tomasz Tunguz I mean, Google has dominated search, right? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:10 Tomasz Tunguz And the, the search ads part of the business is by far the most profitable because they don't have to split the revenue with anyone like they would with content ads or AdSense or publisher network, I think they call it now. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:30 Tomasz Tunguz I mean, if you're working with AdWords, the way that I would build an ad for theory would be to create a list of keywords that might be relevant, that people might search for.
  • ▶ 26:35 Tomasz Tunguz I mean, I saw the power of data firsthand at Google. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:56 Tomasz Tunguz I was lucky to be on the board of a company called Looker that Google bought for a 2.7000000000, and we backed the 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:54 Tomasz Tunguz We worked together at Google a long time ago, and, um, we just stayed friends, and I've watched her career blossom, and as you mentioned, she was a Palantir.
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