Android
6 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jan 5, 2018 by Tom Sparks · said 53 times in 36 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2026 6 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
- Demis Hassabis: Agents, AGI & The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough · Y Combinator
- Replit's CEO On The Only Two Jobs Left In The Company Of The Future · Y Combinator
- The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here · Y Combinator
- The Powerful Alternative To Fine-Tuning · Y Combinator
- Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
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2025 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2024 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2022 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2019 11 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode
- Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- Tracy Young on Scaling PlanGrid to 400+ People with YC Partner Kat Manalac · Y Combinator
- Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
- Diana Hu on Augmented Reality and Building a Startup in a New Market · Y Combinator
- Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- Jeremy Rossmann of Make School on Income Share Agreements and the Future of College · Y Combinator
- Software Engineer Turned Youtuber - Jarvis Johnson · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 17 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator
- Running Your Company by Patrick Collison · Y Combinator
- SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
- Peter Reinhardt on Finding Product Market Fit at Segment · Y Combinator
- Cost vs Quality in Edtech – Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- Mr. Robot's Co-Producer and Writer - Kor Adana · Y Combinator
- Baidu's AI Lab Director on Advancing Speech Recognition and Simulation · Y Combinator
- Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
Everything said about Android, oldest first
Jan 5, 2018 positive
Sep 6, 2018
Segment open-sources client SDKs but keeps its core data pipeline proprietary
“Our JavaScript library is open source, our iOS SDK is open source, our Android SDK is open source, so you can sort of collect data from anywhere, and those collection libraries are open source, but the sort of core infrastructure pipeline is, is not.”
Sep 27, 2018 neutral
Schwartz: Google grew Korean search share via Samsung and LG ties
“What Google used to not be dominant in In Korea, and they've been increasing dominance through their Trojan horse of Android. So Google's obviously very closely partnered with Samsung and LG, Korean companies. And as Korean users use these products, they use G…”
Oct 10, 2018 positive
Hu: Writing computer vision algorithms in C++ enables seamless mobile-to-server migration
“It's a lot more efficient for us to write the code and all of the algorithms once, and then cross-compile it across all the architectures for Android or iOS, and even the backend, so that we run some of the CV algorithms, we could prototype it in the phone, an…”
Nov 27, 2019 negative
Doctorow: Reverse-engineering iOS for cross-platform compatibility triggers legal thickets
“So today, if you were to try and do this, like say you were to try and make Android devices first class citizens in on iOS environment, and in order to do so, you wanted to reverse engineer iOS and allow yourself to sideload in apps into iOS and also to suppor…”
Apr 29, 2026 neutral
Hassabis: DeepMind makes edge models open because on-device models are vulnerable anyway
“For now, what we've decided is that our edge models, the things we want to use for Android, and glasses, and robotics it's best that they're open models. Because they're vulnerable anyway on the, once you put them out on the surfaces, so they might as well be …”