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Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:54 Aravind Srinivas Um, because, like, like, they know that, they're all thinking, like, I don't, I don't even expect these things, or the people in the company are, like, thinking Google wouldn't build this, or something like that.
- ▶ 18:31 David Lieb What, what do you think will be the very short-term things that your browser will do so much better than what I can get today in Chrome that will make me want to switch?
- ▶ 19:40 David Lieb We look for deep mind researchers also.
- ▶ 27:43 David Lieb Your main competitor, Google, their business model, as you've talked about, is selling ads, and you think that prevents them from being really good at what you're doing. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:28 David Lieb Well, you guys are the perfect example of how it's possible to go up against somebody as big as Google.
- ▶ 32:55 unnamed speaker So, if you were in Sundar's shoes or in, um, like the Google co-founder's shoes, like, what would you do? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:49 Aravind Srinivas Just like how Google graduated from Google search to Chrome. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:49 Aravind Srinivas Just like how Google graduated from Google search to Chrome. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:49 Aravind Srinivas Just like how Google graduated from Google search to Chrome.
- ▶ 39:59 Aravind Srinivas Like you're trusting some data provider who's tracking the live game, the TV that's showing you the number, or Apple or Google's, like, AccuWeather, all these things.
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:26 Jared Friedman But when Google first came, when the internet first came out, um, a lot of, uh, teachers would say you're not allowed to use Google.
François Chollet: How We Get To AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:56 François Chollet Or more recently, the AlphaEvol system from DeepMind.
Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:04 Dr. Fei-Fei Li And then I did go to Google to learn a lot about business.
- ▶ 28:08 Dr. Fei-Fei Li In Google Cloud and B to B and all those.
Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products · Y Combinator
Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:52 Sam Altman I was, I had Gary's job then, and we were, you know, there was like all this other great stuff to do that would work, all these great startups, and AGI was like, kind of, a pipe dream, and also, even if it was possible, DeepMind seemed…
- ▶ 19:13 Sam Altman For a long time, ChatGPT was like a Google replacement. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:42 Sam Altman You know, you worked at, like, Google, or went to this college, or I never cared.
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:59 Andrej Karpathy But if you're actually also building your own hardware and you're training on TPUs if you're Google, that's kind of like the Intel model where you own your fab.
- ▶ 26:30 Andrej Karpathy I took this picture using, uh, Google Glass at the time, and many of you are so young that you might not even know what that is.
- ▶ 33:04 Andrej Karpathy Um, so for example, if you try to add Google login to your web page, I know this is very small, but just a huge amount of instructions of this clerk library telling me how to integrate this, and this is crazy, like it's telling me go to…
Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:02 Michael Truell You know, another one of us worked on building, uh, actually a competitor to Google, um, using, using neural networks.
- ▶ 16:18 Michael Truell It's actually one that DeepMind's worked on a bit too.
State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:18 Harj Taggar Um, one thing I found useful is as you're using it, if you just note down in a Google doc things that you're seeing, just, um, the outputs not being how you want or ways that you can think to improve it, you can just write those in note…
- ▶ 17:41 Garry Tan I mean, I think the whole thesis of Palantir at some level was that, um, if you look at Meta, back then it was called Facebook, or Google, or any of the top software startups,
How To Design Better AI Apps · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:30 Pete Koomen I know many people who work for Google, they're incredibly smart.
- ▶ 6:59 Tom Blomfield We don't want the AI to say anything that's going to embarrass Google. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:01 Tom Blomfield It's like, um, Google put Gmail out and if you write, uh, an email full of profanity, that's on you, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:42 Tom Blomfield You pull it from Google docs, you review it.
DoorDash CEO: Customer Obsession, Surviving Startup Death & Creating A New Market · Y Combinator
From A Pivot To Building A $9.6 Billion Payroll Company · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:20 Josh Reeves You could just buy some keywords on Google, and then all of a sudden start, you know, getting real people calling you with questions they have that they want expert advice on, and what we realized within a week or two was, ah, the…
- ▶ 23:12 Josh Reeves So they're either left on their own Googling it, or, you know, they start working with a company like Gusto.
- ▶ 25:15 Harj Taggar The grants will be 20,000 dollars in cash and another 90,000 dollars in compute credits from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.
AI Interfaces Of The Future | Design Review · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:31 Raphael Schaad And you know, when you Googled kind of in the past, um, you just had a list of websites, a list of basically the references or the links and they were your destination.
How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:12 Aravind Srinivas It was not like I want to go and kill Google, like that sort of a motivation.
- ▶ 0:21 David Lieb Today, my view of perplexity is a more intelligent Google search that's really useful in certain scenarios.
- ▶ 1:54 Aravind Srinivas That was the rage at the time because of AlphaGo and DeepMind.
- ▶ 2:07 Aravind Srinivas So then I got into that and, uh, did more internships at Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:03 Aravind Srinivas But it was like, how to build the next Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:11 Aravind Srinivas When DeepMind had this, um, Android environment that they built, where, like, they, they kind of wanted to prototype, uh, mobile app using agent, uh, that knows when to use what apps and control the apps.
- ▶ 5:48 Aravind Srinivas Of course Google's gonna do this, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:50 Aravind Srinivas It's not even, like, you go build a better Google Docs,
- ▶ 6:43 Aravind Srinivas Yeah, so I was like, adoshes enough to go and pitch to the first seed investor of ours, Elad Gill, that like, hey, like, um, you know, I want to disrupt Google, um, but I kind of want to do it from pixels from a glass, and I think that's… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:35 Aravind Srinivas And, uh, you also stand a chance against the legacy system that Google has built, which is a lot more in the first style.
- ▶ 16:17 David Lieb You have this, like, initial momentum, and you, you said earlier, it wasn't until hindsight that you had the idea that, like, oh, we actually have a chance of competing with somebody like a Google. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:29 Aravind Srinivas Yeah, so I never really thought about the Google competition in a serious way, to be very honest, um, because I knew that, like, the, they cannot make this exact product on the Google homepage. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:32 Aravind Srinivas And then the next week, actually, Google also releases a blog from Sundar saying they're announcing something called the Bard, which is screenshots.
- ▶ 19:02 David Lieb Yeah, having spent almost a decade at Google myself, um, I see a lot of the culture of the early days of Google, like the things I've learned about Larry or about Sundar, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:00 Aravind Srinivas So I was very influenced by that style of design, like including like subtle things, the Chrome search bar, if you've already gone to a site, it's already there.
- ▶ 27:37 David Lieb Like today, my view of perplexity is a more intelligent Google search that's really useful in certain scenarios.
- ▶ 28:02 Aravind Srinivas You go to Google. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:02 David Lieb If I talk to people at Google, they would say, yep, that's what we're building. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:04 Aravind Srinivas So other, other places, YouTube and cloud, but the margins are all coming in search, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:43 Aravind Srinivas But they also did a lot of other boring work of bringing Google Finance, Google Shopping, Google Flights.
- ▶ 33:43 Aravind Srinivas But they also did a lot of other boring work of bringing Google Finance, Google Shopping, Google Flights.
- ▶ 33:43 Aravind Srinivas But they also did a lot of other boring work of bringing Google Finance, Google Shopping, Google Flights.
The Right (And Wrong) Way To Spend Money At Your Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:37 Brad Flora And the only way that they got customers was through AdWords. 2 times in the scene
Bob McGrew: AI Agents And The Path To AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:23 Bob McGrew And so DeepMind went after StarCraft, OpenAI went after Dota II.
- ▶ 5:34 Bob McGrew and I like to oppose it to sort of Google brain and to deep mind. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:01 Bob McGrew Um, and of course they did, but they didn't necessarily happen at Google.
- ▶ 11:45 Bob McGrew The thing that's been really exciting, of course, is, you know, going from, ah, the LLM scaling of pre-training, where you're just bringing bigger and bigger corpuses and trying to predict the next token, and shifting gears, and using…
How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup Into Google Photos | Backstory · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:06 unnamed speaker Google Photos.
- ▶ 4:45 David Lieb Our goal is to turn Bump into a verb, just like Google has become a verb today, and we're looking forward to doing that this summer.
- ▶ 11:05 David Lieb Ultimately we sold the company to Google and the plan was to go turn photo roll, rebuild it with Google technology and make it Google photos. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:05 David Lieb Ultimately we sold the company to Google and the plan was to go turn photo roll, rebuild it with Google technology and make it Google photos. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:23 David Lieb To Google on the first day and there had been a reorg, um, and all of the plans that we had agreed upon with our sponsor were out the window and we were tasked to go work on Google plus the social network.
- ▶ 12:47 David Lieb And I saw the opportunity with Google Photos to build something that would be very long-lasting, that would make 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:18 David Lieb I got fired from the team and told to go find a new role at Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:46 David Lieb Once we got the green light, um, you know, it was a, a team of, like, 20 of us from Bump latched on to maybe a team of, like, a hundred people, core people from Google with access to all of this incredible technology, and we were able to…
- ▶ 14:11 David Lieb The core idea of Google Photos was a home for all of your life's memories. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:37 David Lieb We were like an autonomous team inside of Google.
- ▶ 16:44 David Lieb And what I did was look at photos and videos on Google Photos of my family.
- ▶ 18:11 David Lieb I realized one more thing, which was the job that I had been doing at Google over the years, it had evolved, and it wasn't anymore the job that I loved, which was building products for users. 2 times in the scene
Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:09 Tom Blomfield Whereas there are business models like Google famously, who aim to get you off the site as quickly as possible.
- ▶ 11:41 Tom Blomfield I had to Google around.
- ▶ 18:20 David Lieb And then I think that my advice is just try to pick something that people can easily say, and when I say it to you, you can type it into Google and spell it right. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:53 David Lieb Like when I worked on Google Photos,
How To Build The Future: Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:28 Sam Altman The DeepMind had a few, like, impressive results, but a little bit of a different direction.
- ▶ 14:59 Sam Altman And one of my favorite, like, memories of all of OpenAI was Ilya had some reason that Google or something that we couldn't start in
- ▶ 44:41 Sam Altman The big companies, even the medium-sized companies, even the startups that are a few years old, they're already on, like, quarterly planning cycles, and Google is on a year or decade planning cycle. 2 times in the scene
The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:15 Harj Taggar Now we have, like, Facebook and Google who have, like, you know, pretty decent percentage of just, like, the world using their software already, like, as soon as these things start rolling out, and I feel like it's another thing that's…
- ▶ 20:53 Garry Tan If you treat OpenAI as the Google of the next 20 years, you want to invest in Google and all the things that Google enabled, like Airbnb. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:43 Harj Taggar Like, there's still, like, Google still came along and crushed them, right?
How Do Billion Dollar Startups Start? · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:36 Harj Taggar And we, we didn't think the idea had any legs at the time because we were like, well, like Google's just gonna do this. 4 times in the scene
How To Find A Co-Founder | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:39 Harj Taggar Google or a big company where there just wasn't like the same amount of stress as you have under, under startup conditions, or maybe you and your friends really enjoy hanging out socially and you have a great time together, but you've…
- ▶ 9:59 Harj Taggar like I know lots of people who would be a great potential co-founder, but they're not ready to start a startup right now, or they just got a job at Google or Facebook and they would never leave.
How To Convert Customers With Cold Emails | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:42 Aaron Epstein A lot of times people will go and they'll open up a Google doc.
- ▶ 26:22 Aaron Epstein As a quick intro, my co-founder and I are both ex-Googlers working together on a meeting-driven task manager. 2 times in the scene
How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just 2 Years · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:35 Carl Pei Um, and the way it works is, uh, Google does not have their services in China.
- ▶ 16:47 Carl Pei So we would have useful things like being able to set different patterns for different people, so you know who's trying to contact you, or we've, we've done integrations with Google Calendar and Uber, so in Uber's case, you can see how far… 2 times in the scene
Why Startup Founders Should Launch Companies Sooner Than They Think · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:41 Michael Seibel Did you ever remember Google's launch?
- ▶ 6:20 Garry Tan Companies like Apple and Google have infinite budgets.
Startup Experts Discuss Doing Things That Don't Scale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:10 Jared Friedman I actually think Google is indirectly responsible responsible for basically scaling. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:54 Harj Taggar Like if you, if you come in particular, I think the archetype here is like, you come from like a really well paid job at like Google or Facebook.
- ▶ 19:19 Diana Hu Whether you believe it or not, the tech stack was basically Google Drive to upload the menus.
- ▶ 19:59 Diana Hu Google form.
- ▶ 20:08 Diana Hu They totally could have done the fancy thing and build like a dynamic site with Google Mac, real time tracking and everything.
- ▶ 21:03 Michael Seibel Like if I'm working at Google, I have to be far more careful. 2 times in the scene