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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Google comes up
Year of Tech in Review (ep25)
- ▶ 54:03 John Coogan It's been like two years since ChatGPG dropped, and you're like, I'm, that's on my to-do list, is like, figure out if I should use that instead of Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:30 John Coogan So Dworkesh was spending hours tinkering with a Gemini to Google's LLM to effectively
You are NOT a Lottery Ticket (Peter Thiel Breakdown)
- ▶ 16:35 unnamed speaker With, uh, Eric Schmidt over at Google saying, you are out of ideas.
- ▶ 21:09 unnamed speaker Peter realized that it'd be somewhat unscientific to do this analysis, but if you, if you looked backwards at all the companies, every time someone refused a billion dollar offer, eBay, Google, it had turned out to be right.
CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- ▶ 15:40 John Coogan I believe he was the, the, the guy who left Google, went to Uber, and then went to jail and got pardoned for stealing code from Waymo.
- ▶ 51:59 John Coogan This is why, you know, Google, former Google person was really great during the, during the, like the growth years of Google, because 4 times in the scene
Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- ▶ 58:14 John Coogan And judging by the accolades, like winning Google Play app of the year and APAC, they're off to a red hot start.
- ▶ 1:17:03 John Coogan He says, whoa, and he's quoting a post about Google's Willow quantum computer, and he says, it lends credence to the notion that quantum compute computation occurs in many parallel universes in line with the idea that we live in a… 4 times in the scene
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 11:51 John Coogan Like there's no, it's just like Google, you know, they don't have a landing page like here.
- ▶ 20:12 John Coogan On future tech darlings like Airbnb, Apple, Google, and Nvidia.
- ▶ 29:06 Jordi Hays Um, but then Sean immediately, I think went and, uh, I guess like Takoya had some type of issue with their Google workspace and they were like, you know, it got taken down for a second and he immediately was like, is it the deep state or…
- ▶ 2:16:03 John Coogan Kevin Rose is the founder of Dig, made money in Silicon Valley very early, went to Google Ventures, became a venture capitalist, has been very successful.
- ▶ 2:18:23 John Coogan This is in reference to Francois Cholet, who is at Google and has since left and has been a little bit more nuanced in his AGI takes. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:25:41 John Coogan Well explain Google's product and marketing teams. 4 times in the scene
CEO Assassination Deep Dive (ep19)
- ▶ 37:29 unnamed speaker So, so an example of that one, like the Facebook ads platform came out or the Google ad words, it is not hard to get one of those agencies. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:31 unnamed speaker I'm, I'm sure with this, but, uh, but imagine if now, uh, inferencing basically O one in the free tier is just as cheap as running a Google query because it's done on some, you know, baked hardware.
- ▶ 49:58 unnamed speaker You know, 10% of that round, and, and they got preferred, and then Microsoft came in and did something, or Google came in and did something, but
- ▶ 1:19:37 unnamed speaker Search is, okay, can, if Google search is free, can perplexity be,
Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- ▶ 5:47 John Coogan It's, it's fascinating because Google in the same way as like an ad company, and that can be kind of boring to go work at an ad company, but Google was very 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:29 Jordi Hays Look, uh, Gupta also has experience as a research engineer at Vicarious AI and stints at Google and Palantir.
- ▶ 40:09 John Coogan Signal writes, LMAO, if you're an employee of a startup started by four XVPs of Google, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:01:28 John Coogan I mean, early on, I remember they, they were, uh, they were one of the huge beneficiaries of GPT-IV for the receipt scanning because they could just, just do exactly what we did with the red book where they, uh, would OCR it with Google,…
How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- ▶ 2:43 John Coogan Uh, she's known for a high profile, low profile, high luxury aesthetic embraced by heavyweights at Uber, Google, and Apple.
- ▶ 1:17:44 John Coogan And it's like, well, yeah, we're in tech, like, trained that, like, for a certain type of question, you don't go to Google, you just go straight to ChatGPT.
- ▶ 1:41:42 John Coogan Um, he shares a screenshot from his LinkedIn requests and someone writes in to him and says, I was Googling future tech billionaires and your name came up. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:51:59 John Coogan Like, Gemini came out and was comparable, and Claude came out and was comparable very, very quickly, but being first was so powerful.
- ▶ 2:58:15 John Coogan It could be good because it allows a little bit more, like, freedom, and you're not being criticized for, because when you read The Economist, you're not immediately, like, Googling the guy and being like, oh, this guy says that the…
- ▶ 3:05:26 John Coogan Uh, you gotta put Andy Bechtelsheim for Google.
Election Betting Gone WRONG (ep15)
- ▶ 1:10:43 unnamed speaker Twitter is a bubble and it's, uh, the Google trends result and ChatGPT is taking off while Claude and perplexity are flatlined.
- ▶ 1:11:01 unnamed speaker A verb like Google and become just like the default place for normal people. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:47 unnamed speaker I was a, you know, a mobile engineer, you know, for, for Google or whatever.
FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14)
- ▶ 25:23 John Coogan They launched, uh, their competitor to Google Shopping, and it's just much more AI native, much more driven by, take a picture.
- ▶ 58:15 John Coogan I've since moved to just the Gmail spam button because if you hit that, it blocks the sender and it also sends the message to the Google algorithm that like this company sucks, which I like.
- ▶ 1:04:57 Jordi Hays I think we need a, uh, uh, like GitHub commits, but for Google drive for the knowledge, the knowledge workers, like how many commits did you actually make?
- ▶ 1:18:15 Jordi Hays The funny thing is that all, Google being like, it's an all-you-can-eat cafeteria to like, you know, we all know that food takes, it takes a lot of energy.
- ▶ 1:19:13 John Coogan Sundar Pichai, Pitch AI, his whole job at Google is to 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:14:34 John Coogan After three and a half amazing years at Notion and some time off, I've started a company that's at the intersection of everything I learned at Stripe, Notion, and Google.
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars Fast (ep13)
- ▶ 1:38:40 unnamed speaker I, I think that there will actually, yeah, Chrome potentially being forced to spin out, um, which is, which is, 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38:47 unnamed speaker Very, uh, potentially very wild, just because Google is so, and all of Google's products are so deeply integrated into Chrome at this point, it's hard to imagine a Chrome that's not, that's sort of like account agnostic. 4 times in the scene
Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- ▶ 50:46 John Coogan And here's Google Trends. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:52 John Coogan And so, it's now as searched for on Google as Prozac or Viagra, which are, like, name brand products.
- ▶ 1:34:42 John Coogan Better Google search. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:39:28 John Coogan Perplexity AI is massively out executing Google, a company with 235 X the market cap and a, and 1500 X the employee count of perplexity. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:10:47 John Coogan Francois Chollet is out at Google, entering free agency. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:12:18 Jordi Hays Open big red candle on the, on, uh, Alphabet stock.
What is the TRUMP BUBBLE? (ep11)
- ▶ 35:02 John Coogan Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:57 John Coogan Um, but, but, but, but it's really stuck out, and the last company I know that did that was Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:44:20 John Coogan And, uh, Google it, NY Phil, probably newyorkphilharmonic.com, um, and we're, we're happy to support them on this show.
Fact-Checking The Information (ep10)
- ▶ 25:57 Jordi Hays I don't, I don't think I fit, um, even with like, we were already backed by Gradient, one of Google's funds and, um, I just didn't fit the YC mold, um, being, uh, non-technical myself.
- ▶ 1:02:28 Jordi Hays Um, so anyways, I think it's, I think, uh, what, what's the old joke that like Google invented OKRs to just like stifle, like innovation and competition.
Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- ▶ 21:41 John Coogan Even if Apple and Google have the same politics and they both think that, uh, oh, like Jordan Peterson shouldn't be on here or whatever. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:45 John Coogan It's like Google has the TPU.
- ▶ 1:34:45 John Coogan It's like Google has the TPU.
- ▶ 1:42:16 John Coogan Like, a few years ago, when Google was like, well, there's 20% time, and family leave, and pet leave, and bereavement leave, and, like, a million reasons to take time off, it was pretty countercultural to be like, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:10:14 Jordi Hays And all the, all the engineers that, that historically would have gone to Google and then just decided when Google, you know, with project Maven, right. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:13:21 John Coogan I had spent all of our money on Google ads in one day because I had accidentally removed the limit on my tri-ramp card.
Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- ▶ 2:23 John Coogan On the flip side, Google has trillions of dollars. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:19 John Coogan The language model could be like the underlying technology in the same way that I think Netflix was built on GCP or AWS and Snapchat was built on Google cloud, but then they eventually built their own servers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:10 John Coogan And so people were saying like Google is biasing, uh, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30:16 John Coogan Even Google went up four percent.
- ▶ 1:47:30 John Coogan And like, but as soon as you say, like, I'm taking a couple years off to go work at Google or something, it's like, okay, this is the beginning of the end. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:55:28 John Coogan This whole kerfuffle at Google? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:27:28 John Coogan And so it's a very, it's, it's like Google, YouTube, like the algorithm is just, is just expected value maximizing.
Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- ▶ 1:37:55 Jordi Hays Yeah, it's almost like Google for search, where like, if that plays out within AI, it's just like, when I want AI, I go to openAI.com slash ChatGPT. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:58:37 Jordi Hays Google is not up to date.
- ▶ 2:00:32 John Coogan Google ads are dying.
- ▶ 2:04:21 Jordi Hays And so you have to imagine that the new marketers are not the, the best marketers are not going to be like the affiliate marketers or like, I'm really good at AdSense because that's all just like automated now.
- ▶ 2:05:55 Jordi Hays Yeah, the, the good example right now is Sundar at Google spending the last 10 years.
- ▶ 3:14:39 John Coogan There was a lot of dark fiber and that's what enabled Google to grow so fast because even though the internet bubble had collapsed, the, the infrastructure was there.
The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- ▶ 28:15 Jordi Hays Yeah, I think this is probably the real story from this is that if you're a founder out there building something like a Chrome extension, which everybody says Chrome extension. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:49 John Coogan I mean, maybe Google gets it wrong, and there's just like, it's never properly, uh, it's never properly rolled out, but, uh, congratulations to this week's brother of the week.
- ▶ 37:14 John Coogan So it's a replacement for Chrome or Safari and they've applied a number of different design, you know, elements to that. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:55 Jordi Hays Google doesn't care if Chrome loses money forever, right?
- ▶ 1:22:20 Jordi Hays One, I like it because it's great for Google and, and Meta shareholders, because I'm sure a large part of that, 12.4 million dollars was immediately dumped into the ad platforms, right?
- ▶ 2:16:30 Jordi Hays So, it's sort of just an extension of everything that happened with, like, people's fears around Google. 2 times in the scene
Elon's Big Week (ep4)
- ▶ 8:45 unnamed speaker Has Google ever spun out a successful product? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:58 unnamed speaker Google ads.
- ▶ 13:54 unnamed speaker And the teacher, they would use Google Translate and use some sort of exotic string of words that was, like, way more advanced, and the teacher would call it out and be like, we haven't ever taught you how to combine these. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:35 unnamed speaker Like, Google is, I mean, there's a lot of, like, you know, problems with the company.
- ▶ 32:46 unnamed speaker But Google didn't need to raise that much money.
- ▶ 35:27 unnamed speaker We're already seeing this, like this Kairos power company, um, just did a huge deal with Google to generate seven new nuclear reactors. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:01 unnamed speaker Cause apparently, cause think about it when, when, uh, I think Google TV started as like a five to 10 person project internally. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:35:33 unnamed speaker So, uh, in, uh, when, when Google deep mind, Demis Hasidis was, uh, was trying to beat Lisa doll in go, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:44:59 unnamed speaker And then also it's like the Obama administration, the, the, the organization that they met with outside the government more than any other during the administration was Google.
The "Switzerland of AI" is Crazy (ep3)
- ▶ 15:27 John Coogan Go blocks or Google?
- ▶ 33:15 John Coogan Should we move on to Google?
- ▶ 41:46 John Coogan The Google AI-generated podcast.
Zuck Just Killed the Apple Vision Pro (ep2)
- ▶ 12:30 Jordi Hays There's Google Glass, too. 2 times in the scene
Venture Capital Just Changed Forever (ep1)
- ▶ 3:04 unnamed speaker And, like, OpenAI historically has been really, really good about releasing information, like, front-running, like, putting, putting their AI announcement, like, the day before Google's, right?
- ▶ 9:11 unnamed speaker Like, yeah, like, like Nvidia could very clearly just make a statement saying like, we're only going to sell to American companies and I'm going to call up Oracle and Elon and Zuck and Google and all these people and just say, I have, you…