also referred to as: alphabet
includes Google Search, Google DeepMind, Google Drive, Google Pay, Google Play, Google Chrome, Google Maps, Google Ads, Google Sheets, Google Talk, Google Bard, Google Chat and 9 more
21 statements across 15 episodes · 9 bullish · 6 bearish · 14 people on the record · first statement Apr 20, 2023 by Umang Bedi · said 267 times in 44 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Nikhil Kamath (67), Aravind Srinivas (40), Varun Mayya (16), Umang Bedi (13), Tanmay Bhat (13), Nikesh Arora (10), Ghazal Alagh (8), Sajith Sivanandan (6)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 43 mentions in 11 episodes 4 per episode
- Why A 25-Year-Old Should Build A Hotel, Not An App | MakeMyTrip x Taj | WTF is Travel?
- The AI Tsunami is Here & Society Isn't Ready | Dario Amodei x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- Brian Armstrong: Bitcoin, Banks & The New Rules Of Money | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- 17 Young Founders | 8 Startups | 20 Lakh Grants | Third WTFund Cohort · Nikhil Kamath
- The World Bank President On Why Jobs Fix Everything | Ajay Banga x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- Rishi Sunak & Akshata Murty: Power, Identity & Why Patience Beats Ambition | Nikhil | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- The $11B Bet That Voice Will Replace Everything | Mati Staniszewski x Nikhil Kamath | WTF Online · Nikhil Kamath
- Two Pharma Giants Who'd Never Met | Mankind & Dr. Reddy's | WTF is Pharma? · Nikhil Kamath
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 104 mentions in 16 episodes 7 per episode
- Nikhil Kamath ft. Perplexity CEO, Aravind Srinivas | WTF Online Ep 1. · Nikhil Kamath
- From Ghaziabad to Silicon Valley: Nikhil Kamath x Nikesh Arora | People by WTF | Ep. 11 · Nikhil Kamath
- Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath
- From Iran to Uber CEO | Nikhil Kamath x Dara Khosrowshahi | People by WTF | Ep. 14 · Nikhil Kamath
- Nikhil Kamath x YouTube CEO, Neal Mohan | People by WTF Ep. 9 · Nikhil Kamath
- Vinod Khosla: College Degrees Are Becoming Useless | People by WTF | Episode 12 · Nikhil Kamath
- Tira, Bombay Shaving Co., Inde Wild | WTF is Fueling India’s Beauty & Skincare Revolution? | Ep. 25 · Nikhil Kamath
- Nikhil Kamath ft. Police Comm'r & Traffic Police Comm'r of Bengaluru | WTF is Policing? | Special Ep · Nikhil Kamath
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 25 mentions in 7 episodes 4 per episode
- WTF Ep# 16 | What character "flaws" make the best entrepreneurs? Nikhil ft.Ritesh, Ghazal and Manish · Nikhil Kamath
- Nikhil Kamath x Ranbir Kapoor | People by WTF Ep #2 · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath
- Nikhil Kamath x Nandan Nilekani | People by WTF | Ep #3 · Nikhil Kamath
- Nikhil Kamath x Bill Gates | People by WTF | Ep. #1 · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep. #20 | WTF are Indian Real Estate Giants Up To? Nikhil ft. Irfan, Nirupa, & Karan · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep# 15 | WTF is Climate Change? Nikhil ft. Sunita, Bhumi, Navroz and Mirik · Nikhil Kamath
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 95 mentions in 10 episodes 10 per episode
- Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep. #2: Secrets of Social Media Success, Mental Health & Distribution Hacks - 3 OGs Reveal All · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep #11 | WTF Goes into Building a Fashion, Beauty, or Home Brand? Nikhil w/ Kishore, Raj, and Ananth · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep #8 | WTF is Going on in the World of Content | w/ Nikhil, Ajay Bijli, Vijay S. & Sajith S. · Nikhil Kamath
- #1 WTF is Metaverse? WTF is with Nikhil Kamath ft. Tanmay Bhat, Umang Bedi & Aprameya Radhakrishna · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep #9 | WTF is Venture Capital? Ft. Nikhil, Nithin, Rajan A., Prashanth P. & Karthik R. · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep #5 | EdTech What’s Broken, What’s Next? With Nikhil, Ronnie Screwvala , Gaurav Munjal & Jay Kotak · Nikhil Kamath
- Ep #10 | WTF is the Next Gen Thinking? Nikhil w/ Navya, Tara, Aadit & Kaivalya · Nikhil Kamath
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
Everything said about Google, oldest first
Apr 20, 2023 negative
Apr 20, 2023 bearish
Apr 21, 2024 negative
Kim: Indian parents favor traditional tech giants over gaming companies
“I think the other thing is more of a cultural issue that I have discovered over the past few years that I've been here in India, which is that gaming, at least, and you guys please disagree with me, but in my experience, it seems like gaming is not looked upon…”
Jun 14, 2024 positive
Gates: If I were 25 in India, I'd build vertical AI apps
“I'd probably build, pick some AI thing, And just use the Google, Microsoft platforms and go on top of that and try and, because I'd be in touch with the customer so well and improving my data, keep ahead You know, and I'd say, okay, who's the most demanding cu…”
Jun 14, 2024 bearish
Gates: Foundational AI models require $2B–$3B, limiting Indian players to at most two
“So if you're an entrepreneur who's trying to build foundational models, models from the very ground up, like Google does, or Microsoft with OpenAI does, and they have four or five others, You have to raise, you know, two, three billion dollars. Now maybe some …”
Mar 21, 2025 neutral
Mar 23, 2025 bearish
Aravind Srinivas: Google will never make AI search the centerpiece of core Google
“Google has the least incentive to bring out AI native search or agents right there on core Google homepage or Google apps. It can be hidden in a mode or like sometimes firing some for some queries, but it's never going to be the central piece of it.”
Mar 23, 2025 bullish
Srinivas: Google will remain dominant for years via transaction capture
“Another thing I'll tell you why they'll, they'll still continue to be dominant for a few years is let's say you do your research on like what microphones to buy, whatever, or like, you know, Let's say the best headphones for podcast recording. You're buying eq…”
Mar 23, 2025 positive
Aravind Srinivas: Google is the only company full-stack independent of Nvidia
“The only one who's managed to do this, I would say, is Google. They built their own chips, they built their own software around it called JAX, and then they built their own accelerated linear algebra library called XLA. And then, you know, they have their own …”
Mar 23, 2025 bullish
Srinivas: Meta has a stronger moat than Google due to network effects
“Meta has a bigger moat than Google because Google's moat on distribution comes from their deals with carriers, OEMs, and like all, you know, all these people but Meta's moat is this raw network effects, like, Nobody pre-installs Instagram or WhatsApp on phones…”
Apr 11, 2025 negative
Gates: Microsoft lost the mobile OS race and Android won non-Apple phones
“We competed with Google over the mobile phone operating system, and we fell behind, and, you know, today, nobody remembers there was a Windows Mobile thing. It's just Android. For non-Apple phones, it's basically all Android.”
Apr 26, 2025 positive
Sharma: Alibaba and Baidu Wouldn't Exist Without China's Protectionism
“So if it was like what we're discussing that, yes, sitting across the table. Okay. If you do this, I do this, then all this, then Google would have been there probably, or Amazon would have been there. I don't think so whether they will be having an Alibaba or…”
Jun 28, 2025 neutral
Aug 2, 2025
Aug 24, 2025 bullish
Aug 29, 2025 bullish
Kamath: Content will be the biggest differentiator for brand success
“With search being disrupted in the manner that it is, and people, let's assume, use Google a lot lesser, or any kind of search platform that is throwing up ads. And if anyone wants to build a brand, social media might exist in some form, but Google ads and the…”
Nov 5, 2025 bullish
Nov 30, 2025 bullish
Mar 11, 2026 neutral
Sep 9, 2026 neutral
Sep 9, 2026 neutral
Rajesh Magow: Deep transaction businesses cannot be easily replicated by AI
“You know, I'll tell you the reason why I don't think that replication is so easy. In a deep transaction business versus a, you know, generic search business. Think about Google, for example. So Google historically has always been perceived as potential competi…”