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39 statements across 30 episodes · 15 bullish · 11 bearish · 26 people on the record · first statement Nov 4, 2020 by Sean Weisbrot · said 423 times in 115 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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brought up most by Sean Weisbrot (85), Kevin Geary (46), Tom Winter (25), Dan Bilkowski (16), Seva Ustinov (11), Donald Booth (11), Martin Tobias (10), Allison Hartsoe (10)
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2026 14 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
2025 104 mentions in 30 episodes 3 per episode
- Value Lives in the Mind of the Customer, Not in Your Product
- He Manages $100M in Ad Spend With a Trick Nobody Tried Yet
- 20 Years of Meditation Taught Him to Feel Nothing - Here's Why That Wins
- 30% IRR From Plumbers and Dry Cleaners? Here Is How
- Europe Is Half as Likely to Adopt AI. Here Is What That Costs Them
- 29,000 Zoning Codes - Brian's AI Agent Will Know All of Them
- Poor People Add, Rich People Multiply - Billionaires Do Neither
- Consider You Might Be Wrong: His Tattoo Runs His Company
- 22 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 53 mentions in 19 episodes 3 per episode
- He Bought a Hotel During COVID to Remove One Pain Point
- Backing Up to an Earlier Solution Changed Everything for Sean
- He Lost 76% of His Traffic and Refused to Let a Single Person Go
- He Gave Them the Dollar They Asked For, Then Walked Away
- She Hit $1M and Tried to Maintain It. Her Soul Would Not Allow It.
- He Told His Son 'Watch What Happens When You Turn 35
- She Loved the Work So Much She Never Set a Number
- He Built a $100M Company and Says You Are Already Wrong Right Now
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 49 mentions in 20 episodes 2 per episode
- How a Cookie Invented in 94 Became the Monster Behind Your Data
- 550 Million People, One Language, Zero Access to Venture Capital
- Photographers Weren't Replaced by Photoshop. So Why Fear AI?
- Your Kids Signed Contracts With No Expiration Date and No Way Out
- Doctors Said She'd Never Have Kids. Diet Changed That.
- Passion Is the Fuel, Not the Emotion: One Founder's Case for a New Industry
- Nobody Prepays Anyone - Until Daniel Asked and They Said Sure
- CIA Took His Case Mid-Investigation and Never Told Him Why
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 75 mentions in 18 episodes 4 per episode
- He Called It a Leap of Faith Metric and It Closed Deals Faster
- 35% Calmer in 20 Minutes: Why VR Beat the Top Meditation App
- They Showed Up to Inspect a Factory That Did Not Exist Yet
- Her Fans Looked Male On Instagram But Her Shopee Data Said Otherwise
- Builders Are the Ticket Before Interoperability Ever Gets Solved
- 2 Billion People Use a Super App That Isn't One
- Webflow Calls Itself No-Code But Here Is What They Leave Out
- Why a Weekly Email Changed What Founders Thought Mattered
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 109 mentions in 17 episodes 6 per episode
- Why a Gorgeous Website Can't Convert a Soul
- The Bezos Yawn Factor: Why No-Code Will Feel Mundane Soon
- The Sunshine Rule: The Hidden Test Every CEO Should Run on Their Data
- France's Two-Tier System: The 1% Pay No Taxes Legally
- Why 80% of Purchase Decisions Are Built on Emotion, Not Logic
- The Hidden 95%: Why the EU Is Still an Untapped Market
- Give It All Away — The Truth About What Clients Actually Pay For
- Every Startup Thinks Its Baby Is the Cutest in the Room
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 19 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- Why Dogfooding Your Own Product Exposes What All Your Data Misses
- Too Much Publicity Can Kill Your Business — Here's Proof
- The Founder-Fit Secret VCs Don't Want You to Know
- The Truth About Patents: 'I Did Everything Right — It Hurt Me'
- Why 'Life Has No Purpose' Is the Most Freeing Thing You Can Believe
- 45% of This Cancer Drug Was Fake — Here's How We Proved It
- The Hidden Drought That Toppled Governments Across a Whole Region
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
Everything said about Google, oldest first
Nov 4, 2020 positive
Dec 15, 2020 negative
Dec 15, 2020
Feb 7, 2021 neutral
Geary: Google Tests Sites by Temporarily Promoting Them to Page One
“If you start to get towards page one, maybe you're on page two, position like 1314, 15, somewhere in there, Google will periodically take your site and just pop it onto page one, like into position five or two or three or whatever. And they'll just watch how p…”
Feb 7, 2021
Feb 7, 2021 negative
Feb 7, 2021 positive
Geary: Search traffic is the second-highest quality lead source after referrals
“There is no better prospect, except there's only one category of prospect that's better, and that's a referral prospect. So if somebody has used you and somebody's like, dude, do you know anybody that can repair my roof? It's all messed up. I need somebody I c…”
Feb 7, 2021
Geary: Google Ranks Brands Higher If They Have High Branded Search Volume
“It's called brand query searches. So if I have Joe Schmo's roofing company and people are going to Google because maybe I have a billboard, maybe a lot of people are talking about me in the area. They don't know what my website is, but they know my name. And s…”
May 10, 2022 bearish
Weisbrot predicts individuals must own AI by 2040 to avoid economic subordination.
“You know, there's a good chance that by 2040, if you don't own your own AI, you will be owned by an AI that Google, Facebook, Apple, or Facebook, you know, one of these companies own. Like you basically have 20 years to make your money or you're going to becom…”
Aug 2, 2022 negative
Bimani: Formal education is not important compared to self-taught knowledge
“Formal education is not important. Knowledge is right. You can go to a four year degree and still come out dumb as a rocks, or you can learn on Google or in YouTube. Like I have reading books and know everything you need to know to get ahead.”
Sep 21, 2022
Bramlett: Email Marketers Must Target 30% Open Rates Post-Apple Changes
“We're shooting for 30% because since the apple thing happened, you gotta be high because if you're at like 20%, that probably means in reality, you had like 10% of people opening, which means your emails are tanking and no one wants to inbox your emails like Y…”
Nov 29, 2022
Winter: Track page 4-6 search impressions to spot early SEO traction
“If you can see that you have more and more visibility in Google, no clicks. I mean, visibility, so fourth, fifth, sixth page of Google, that means you're getting some traction. And this is something that you can see really quickly in just a week or two because…”
Jan 24, 2023 negative
Mar 14, 2023 neutral
May 30, 2023 positive
Jun 6, 2023 bullish
Nathan: ChatGPT outperforms Google for nuanced product and service discovery
“I've found myself interestingly using it in place of Google for search on things that Google doesn't do a great job with. So, hey, what are, you know, what are other services that are similar to XYZ, for example, and You know, Google gives you websites that sh…”
Jul 5, 2023 neutral
Nov 28, 2023 neutral
Tulla: Startups Rarely Achieve True Large-Scale Impact Compared to Big Tech
“It's very difficult to use the vehicle of entrepreneurship and building a company and really have a true impact in the world around you in a big scale, because the big scale impact is done by the big companies. And for you to found a big company like Google or…”
Nov 28, 2023 negative
Weisbrot: Big Tech employees are inhumanely stressed or paid to do nothing
“And when you look at the stories that have come out of Google and Facebook and Apple and Amazon, These employees are getting paid incredible packages, but they're either stressed beyond, you know, whatever's fair and humane, or they're doing absolutely nothing…”
Apr 16, 2024 positive
Sherman: Broad targeting now outperforms granular audience targeting on Meta and Google
“Facebook posts iOS, 14.5 and for privacy concerns, kind of for broad is better in a simple, simple way. You set up campaigns where you're targeting the entire country and optimizing towards conversions. Similar with Google where you used to have pinpoint keywo…”
May 28, 2024 negative
Google penalty wiped out 76% of traffic for Company Folders
“We received a manual penalty warning from Google for They called it unnatural links. And we lost a lot of rankings. To give you an idea of what we lost was we ranked number one, number two, and sometimes number three at the top of Google for most of our keywor…”
Jul 2, 2024 positive
Jul 16, 2024 positive
Merola: Startup blog content serves Google SEO over client personal preferences
“A blog has an SEO piece to it, and a lot of times that's the main primary goal of a blog is just to make sure that we're serving Google, as it relates to SEO, organic SEO rankings. That's real. It's not, we're not writing blog articles for you and making sure …”
Aug 8, 2024 negative
Feb 18, 2025 positive
Adilbaev: Big tech credentials are the best ticket to intro calls
“I think everybody looks at, everybody likes like big names, like I don't know, Google or Meta or
Like some software engineers that like top AI startups or I don't know, some big schools or whatever.
Yeah.
Everybody likes this.
So this is, yeah, I would say the…”
May 6, 2025 neutral
Jul 4, 2025
Jamison: Creators can train LLM recommendations via self-published third-party content
“Cause you know, the LLMs are looking at Google results. We know that you can slowly but surely like train it on what is best and you have control that entire process. It doesn't have to be reliant on actual third party people. It can just be you on third party…”
Jul 4, 2025 bearish
Jamison: AI foundation models will be commoditized without monopoly profits
“All of the big tech companies right now that are investing very, very heavily into building their own models. It's just going to be commoditized at the end. And no one really gets that monopoly profits where it's like, you know, a search, like Google got monop…”
Jul 29, 2025
Sep 26, 2025 positive
Agobin: Google Beat Yahoo by Maintaining Webpage Simplicity
“Google could have done anything once they got the traffic, they could have turned into Yahoo with the crazy webpage and all this stuff, but they stuck with the simplicity. Drove traffic and then found ways to make money from the traffic coming in.”
Oct 10, 2025 negative
Oct 21, 2025
Bilkowski: Google can lose money on AI indefinitely to pressure rivals
“They could lose money on their AI, like basically indefinitely. They could run the clock out on everyone else if they really wanted to, you know, keep pricing pressure on the market and run those other companies out of business because they can fund that type …”
Oct 24, 2025 bearish
Dec 9, 2025 positive
Turney: Site With 100% AI Content Drew Millions of Monthly Clicks
“There was a website, AI invest. If you've ever heard of it, they are a hundred percent
AI content. They don't hide it. They have off AI authors on their pages and they skyrocketed. I mean, they were getting millions and millions of clicks per month. And then G…”
Jan 6, 2026 positive
Sadan: Humans Are Still Needed to Create Unique, Trustworthy Content Over AI
“So it's not about just adding more content to your website or having AI just spit out more content than adding those. It's really thinking about You know, how do you, how is your content relevant coming from a trust? How is that content trustworthy? Is it uniq…”
Jan 6, 2026 positive
Sadan: Website Traffic Is Shifting From Google Search to AI Chat Platforms
“Historically, when we talked about SEO of website, of how websites are being found, SEO was kind of equal to Google, but that world is shifting and we're seeing The increase of traffic from some of these chat platforms, because people are now not just going to…”
Mar 3, 2026 bullish
Wong: Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft will clone OpenClaw in ten months
“My prediction is this within n number of months, less than 10 Entropic, now, now Open Claw become part of OpenAI, so that becomes the OpenAI part of this game. Entropic, Google, Microsoft, Everybody will have their equivalent of open, open call framework.”
Jun 9, 2026 bullish
Jun 9, 2026 positive
McGregor: Building safe calling prototype in GSMA Foundry with Google and Ericsson
“We're gonna build a prototype for the world to look at, to test, and the rest of it is live. And I've invited Google And Ericsson, so California, Sweden, to join me in, in the foundry. And the first endeavor is to create, and I'll call it into six G, but now f…”