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Consumer Startup Metrics | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:56 Tom Blomfield So I had a friend who in the early days of, um, of Zipcar just set up a bunch of cheap Google ads that bid on Zipcar and then would redirect them straight to Zipcar and milk the referral scheme.
- ▶ 9:26 Tom Blomfield That's because if you're relying too much on the big ad platforms like Google and Meta, to increase your growth, you're basically just going to have to pay them more money. 3 times in the scene
B2B Startup Metrics | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:30 Tom Blomfield But, you know, making buttons red or green, that's not really something you have the scale to split test until you're really at the size of Google or Facebook.
How To NOT Get Screwed As A Software Engineer · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:30 Michael Seibel Um, and then there's the Googler, right?
- ▶ 5:39 Michael Seibel Alright, that next group, um, the Googler.
- ▶ 11:15 Michael Seibel I think most people don't realize that, like, you can learn at a startup pace or you can learn at a Google pace, and like, a startup is an amazing opportunity to learn.
Does Your Startup Need To Be In San Francisco? · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:16 Dalton Caldwell Google and Facebook and Apple, the Apple HQ is in Cupertino.
- ▶ 8:05 Michael Seibel What they really need is a Google office. 2 times in the scene
Silicon Valley's Cargo Culting Problem · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:24 Dalton Caldwell Well, the first and most obvious one was Google. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:59 Michael Seibel What's funny about maybe these Uber ones that are slightly different from the Facebook and Google ones is like, I don't think Uber even did these things.
- ▶ 6:47 Michael Seibel Like, like for Google, this was great advice. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:18 Michael Seibel We're like, okay, garden variety cargo culting that's still really bad as you cargo Google.
- ▶ 14:16 Michael Seibel Do people care about the Google logo, or do they care that they get search results that are good?
- ▶ 14:59 Dalton Caldwell And what you do is you go and Google for things and copy and paste blindly all the stuff.
Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:19 Diana Hu Like if you're doing software, you're gonna have to do the front end, the back end, DevOps, the website, the UX, even IT to provision the Google accounts, anything.
- ▶ 7:00 Diana Hu I literally just opened Option Command J if you're in Chrome,
- ▶ 11:12 Diana Hu They tried to really find the misfits and engineers that Google overlooked, and those turned out to be amazing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:03 Diana Hu The backend quote unquote was literally just a Google forms and Google docs where they coordinated all the orders.
- ▶ 14:03 Diana Hu The backend quote unquote was literally just a Google forms and Google docs where they coordinated all the orders.
- ▶ 15:43 Diana Hu For example, authentication, you have things like Auth Zero, payments, you have Stripe, cross-platform support and rendering, you have things like React Native, cloud infrastructure, you have AWS, GCP, landing pages, you have Webflow,…
- ▶ 18:52 Diana Hu Although a lot of other peers were telling him to go and use Ruby and Rails, and I think in 2015, Ruby and Rails were 10 times more popular by Google Trends, and that was fine.
- ▶ 20:19 Diana Hu Something like Google Analytics, Amplitude, Mixpanel, and don't go overboard with something super complex like Logstash, Prometheus. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:42 Diana Hu They had a load balancer that was on Google Cloud, and they had a backend, and they had a TCP termination and HTTP requests that were done with their Nginx to route
- ▶ 24:39 Diana Hu It is tempting to, to build and say, what would Google do?
How Startup Fundraising Works | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:25 Brad Flora If you Google Y Combinator safe, you can find the document, download it to your computer, and use it this afternoon to close an investment in your startup.
The REAL potential of generative AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:19 Raza Habib Like the, you know, OpenAI for all the criticism, criticism they get, they actually have been pretty open and DeepMind have been pretty open.
The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:46 Kat Mignalek I literally had to go to Google and Google Buffer.
The Cult of Conformity in Silicon Valley · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:29 Michael Seibel Um, you know, college kids today obsess with getting jobs at Facebook and Google.
The Secrets To Setting Smarter Goals · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:15 Dalton Caldwell And what may be a good strategy to, like, rest invest working at Google or Facebook, and to just do as little work as possible by sandbagging goals and working three hours a week or whatever people do, when you're the boss, do you see how…
- ▶ 15:26 Michael Seibel You have a bunch of people who think you've made it, who think that this is, you know, the next Google, when in reality, it's, it's, it's not.
- ▶ 18:56 Dalton Caldwell You can get someone with a title to leave Google or Facebook or somewhere really impressive. 2 times in the scene
How to Get Your First Customers | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:04 Gustaf Alströmer And you can use Google spreadsheets or something like that to make this list. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:43 Gustaf Alströmer There are, of course, other ways that you can grow as a startup, but the truth that I've learned is that even if you end up with, say, like Airbnb, where the sources of growth is word of mouth, Google search, referrals, 6 times in the scene
Startup Business Models and Pricing | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:44 Aaron Epstein There's Google, there's Facebook, there's Twitter, just to name a few.
How To Talk To Users | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:01 Gustaf Alströmer Most founders would spend their time in front of their computers trying to find scalable growth channels like Google Ads.
- ▶ 13:50 Gustaf Alströmer Even though it might appear basics to you, for example, like Excel or Google Spreadsheets is actually competitors to many, many, many, many hundreds of startups. 3 times in the scene
How to Get and Evaluate Startup Ideas | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:17 Jared Friedman First, Google it. 2 times in the scene
Advantages Of A First-Time Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:08 Michael Seibel And, you know, I think we would be remiss without adding that, you know, some of the biggest companies ever, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, first time founders.
The Two Mindsets That Can KILL Your Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:51 Dalton Caldwell To become the next Google.
Most Important Lifestyle Habits Of Successful Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:54 Michael Seibel You shouldn't be sitting here, like, with Google employee level savings running your startup.
Don't Make These Hiring Mistakes · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:54 unnamed speaker Google does that well.
Save Your Startup During an Economic Downturn · Y Combinator
- ▶ 34:40 Michael Seibel And I'm sure they were so tempted to look at a Google or a Facebook and say, why don't we do those things?
Why You Should Leave Your FAANG Job · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:04 Dalton Caldwell And what's funny is at the time, Google was like an 80 person startup and they were trying to recruit on campus. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:30 Dalton Caldwell Like, again, if, if you're someone that's like a good enough programmer to get hired to work on some deep technical infrastructure, Google, then this line is true. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:55 Dalton Caldwell Again, I'm talking about programmers here, but you have so much infrastructure inside of Google or Facebook to do your job. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:05 Dalton Caldwell So when you start a startup and you have none of it and you're starting from scratch, you're like, wait, what happened to all those tools I was used to using in big table and big query and all, you know, whatever, whatever you had.
- ▶ 8:41 Michael Seibel Like, a VC is good, like, we all know that Google, um, engineers can just raise a Series A, can raise five to ten million dollars, like, with almost nothing, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:57 Dalton Caldwell Again, you know, Google this, loss aversion's a thing.
How To Compete With Amazon and Google · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:07 Harj Taggar Hired someone from Google, blah, blah, like all these reasons.
- ▶ 10:29 Michael Seibel And they literally six months into their company, Google calendar came out and just absolutely crushed them.
- ▶ 14:19 Michael Seibel When Cruz started, Google was already a decade into building self-driving cars, right?
How Future Billionaires Get Sh*t Done · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:02 Dalton Caldwell Just Google Maker Schedule Manager Schedule.
- ▶ 12:18 Michael Seibel You know, like, what I did was I unfollowed everyone on Twitter, and then I installed this, like, Chrome app that basically disables, like, three quarters of Twitter's features.
- ▶ 16:01 Michael Seibel So many people trying to be like, well, I'm keeping grad school open, I've got a Google job offer, I've got a Jane Street or whatever the new tech finance thing of the minute is, and I'm talking to three friends about doing a startup. 3 times in the scene
Elon Musk & The Midwit Meme – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:49 Dalton Caldwell Five to seven years of experience at Google who made it to at least a level seven.
Why Investors Can’t Fix Your Company – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:37 Dalton Caldwell Is pretty different when you were employee number, you know, a hundred or 200 at Airbnb or Google or Facebook than employee number five. 3 times in the scene
Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:33 Michael Seibel Well, PB is the inventor of Gmail, and as kind of a side project at Google, he invented something that 1.5 billion people on earth actively use. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:16 Michael Seibel Google Groups UI.
- ▶ 15:29 Dalton Caldwell So one of the cool innovations that YouTube, the startup YouTube had before it was acquired by Google was to play video in flash in the browser that required no external dependencies or just play right in the browser.
- ▶ 20:17 Michael Seibel Tell a Google story.
- ▶ 20:32 Dalton Caldwell This Google story is secondhand. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:08 Michael Seibel When the index started getting scale, stale, did Google shut down the search engine? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:08 Michael Seibel When the index started getting scale, stale, did Google shut down the search engine? 2 times in the scene
How To Change The World? Get The Small Things Right – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:25 Dalton Caldwell It seems like people go to the effort of starting a company, of trying to raise money for a company, of applying to YC with a company, of making it to YC interviews with a company, and we can tell you haven't Googled it. 3 times in the scene
Simple Products That Became Big Companies – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:56 Michael Seibel I also think there's a little bit of, I'll invent a term, Google-itis, like people looking at companies that they use today and not understanding what they looked like at the beginning.
Should You Follow Your Passion? – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:51 Michael Seibel Well, they would know if they did any Google searching. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:59 Michael Seibel Compared to a job at Google, working with your friends feels like winning.
Diego Saez Gil - How Pachama Uses Tech to Solve Climate Change · Y Combinator
- ▶ 38:47 Diego Saez-Gil You know, big companies like Google and, you know, Microsoft and Apple all have, uh, an area of focus on climate change.
YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:29 Eric Migicovsky So for example, if there's already some software that your users, not your users, like the people in the community are already using to track their competitive StarCraft II analysis, what you could consider doing is actually like building,…
- ▶ 39:44 Michael Seibel But I'd argue that, like, if you want to test any demand at all for this type of product, probably, like, a Google Sheets spreadsheet could do it too.
- ▶ 52:11 Michael Seibel Uh, and so Google felt like a very open system for finding websites. 2 times in the scene
Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 48:56 Iba Masood So now our founding team consists of early software engineers from Nest, um, Google, Apple, um, Atlassian, and we've really brought people together that have this common mission, common vision where everyone says, okay, we know, um,… 2 times in the scene
Laks Srini on Making Homeownership in Reach with ZeroDown · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:48 Laks Srini Why can't we do zero down mortgages to people in Facebook, Google, Apple, Airbnb?
- ▶ 17:55 Laks Srini Um, so how do Google bus routes affect home prices?
Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:03 Craig Cannon So, for those who don't know you, you are the administrator of the U.S. digital service, and previously you were at Google, where you were the head of the web spam team, and also the 71st employee. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:43 Matt Cutts Uh, so that was a great introduction to the company. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:29 Matt Cutts Uh, but also AdWords and, and later AdSense.
- ▶ 3:29 Matt Cutts Uh, but also AdWords and, and later AdSense.
- ▶ 3:29 Matt Cutts Uh, but also AdWords and, and later AdSense. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:14 Matt Cutts And, uh, oh man, I forgot to turn off caching when I ran that experiment and I nearly melted Google at that point, which was 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:12 Matt Cutts Because people come to Google and they'll search for something like flat earth, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:22 Craig Cannon Ok, I could talk to you about Google back in the day for a very long time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:52 Matt Cutts SEOs or websites versus Google, it should be, or a search engine, it should be working together to give the best results. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:00 Craig Cannon If you were thrown back into Google right now, how would you be thinking about deep fakes? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:25 Matt Cutts Uh, and Mikey Dickerson, who was the first guy to run the U S digital service had come back to Google.
- ▶ 24:30 Matt Cutts Uh, you know, we had a staff software engineer come from Google who, she could only come for the summer, but we were like, come on down, you know, and, and let's see how much work we can get done. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:04 Craig Cannon We have another Google question. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:41 Matt Cutts Like, one of the things that people love the most about Google was the logo, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:12 Matt Cutts Uh, ok, so, at Google, 5 times in the scene
Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:40 Cory Doctorow And, you know, Facebook is positioning itself to become a state monopoly like the Bell system was, as is Google, as is Apple, right?
- ▶ 1:08:07 Cory Doctorow What would Silicon Valley be without Google?
- ▶ 1:11:47 Cory Doctorow I'm often the first Corey in Google, uh, so it's pretty easy to find me.
Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:15 Gustaf Alströmer It doesn't really start with like, I launched my website, and I put up Google Ads, or I launched my website, and somehow it's being discovered.
- ▶ 14:52 Gustaf Alströmer Well, you can just Google the best products and best companies in the world.
- ▶ 17:51 unnamed speaker Google. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:57 Gustaf Alströmer We tend to go to Google to learn about rare things that we don't do very often. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:17 Gustaf Alströmer Um, many of the advertising tools like Google and Facebook have a very clear system for how they calculate this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:40 Gustaf Alströmer This is what Google see. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:51 Gustaf Alströmer The best way to do that is to go to Google and type in A-B testing calculator. 2 times in the scene
EconTalk Host Russ Roberts on Key Economic Concepts for Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 58:20 Russ Roberts I'm not going to Google it, but it doesn't matter.