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Adora Cheung - How to Set KPIs and Goals · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:22 Adora Cheung Um, if you Google around for it, there are actually many definitions of what this actually means, but for the purpose of today, for this context, I'm going to define it as a set of quantitative metrics that indicate how healthy your…
- ▶ 7:10 Adora Cheung So an example of this is if your business model is advertising based, like a Facebook or Google, then
Eric Migicovsky - How to Talk to Users · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:00 Eric Migicovsky Um, let's say you're talking to McDonald's, French Laundry, and the Google Cafe. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:47 Eric Migicovsky You could just Google it.
Kevin Hale - How to Evaluate Startup Ideas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:24 Kevin Hale And so if you think it's like, well, I'm a product manager at Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:36 Kevin Hale If you go to Investor, and you've done a bunch of Facebook, or Twitter, or Google Ads, and you show your CAC and LTV, that you were able to prove that you have a sustainable sort of acquisition model.
Camille Fournier on Managing Technical Teams · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:47 Camille Fournier You know, I think at that time, like Google still had their, you know, 50 people to one manager kind of structure.
Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:50 Sarah Nahm Uh, I think, uh, the, the only way I even ended up quote unquote applying to Google, uh, is like I was dropping off some form for a friend. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:32 Sarah Nahm Uh, notably, I spent a lot of time on the Chrome team, which was just incredible.
- ▶ 7:24 Craig Cannon Obviously you jumped around at Google, but it's not obvious as to how a speechwriter goes on to found lever. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:51 Craig Cannon A lot of our listeners are early founders, and they are competing against Facebook and Google, Google, I was gonna call it the Goog, uh, Facebook and Google, and, uh, every big tech company, right?
- ▶ 28:15 Sarah Nahm And, uh, you know, if anybody's really curious about looking into that, uh, we kind of modified a version of, uh, top grading, which you can Google and find a lot of information about,
- ▶ 33:02 Sarah Nahm So we actually like developed this little exercise, like it's literally a Google doc that
Updates for Startup School 2019 and Office Hours with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 34:46 Craig Cannon Google. 2 times in the scene
Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:20 Gustaf Alströmer Um, some basic Google Analytics or basic
- ▶ 17:36 Gustaf Alströmer Like, like, like there's a, like, for example, if you come in through Google brand or, like, for example, if you come in through Google, you're gonna have to determine is that someone who know about your product before, not knowing about… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:20 Dan Hockenmaier So certainly everybody on the growth team, but even others outside of that, we're basically all adding stuff in a brainstorm or Google Doc or whatever it was.
- ▶ 28:00 Gustaf Alströmer Versus like, if you were optimizing the landing page for, for Google conversion, well, that's going to be a lot of people that want to do exactly what you offer.
- ▶ 46:43 Gustaf Alströmer It was Google, people Googling for things that relate to Airbnb, or that relate to staying in homes or, or apartments, and we just bought those keywords, um, and, um, that helped us drive growth.
- ▶ 50:22 Gustaf Alströmer Like there, the stack was basically mobile phones, iOS and Android, desktop, Chrome, um, Facebook,
- ▶ 50:29 Gustaf Alströmer Um, Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:54 Gustaf Alströmer Google apps and sort of like using the social proof of your coworkers using products.
Jeremy Rossmann of Make School on Income Share Agreements and the Future of College · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:02 Jeremy Rossmann So we actually have five years of data, our students getting jobs at Facebook, Google and Tesla and all these great companies.
- ▶ 12:06 Craig Cannon Everything I've taught myself has been just enough to get the project done, but then if you were to throw me into like a Google production level environment, it would be a disaster.
- ▶ 24:45 Craig Cannon Like Google and Apple do away with college requirement or something to that effect. 4 times in the scene
Tracy Young on Scaling PlanGrid to 400+ People with YC Partner Kat Manalac · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:54 Tracy Young Actually, we were having dinner, and he, you know, it's, it's at this point of our relationship where our, where it's going steady, and we're sharing Google calendars.
Analyzing Billions of Transactions to Understand Consumer Behavior - Michael Babineau and Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:47 Michael Babineau And, um, over the, uh, like over recent years, increasingly they've been looking at things like Google trends, right?
Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India's Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:33 Vidit Aatrey And now these people have started to come using Facebook, WhatsApp, Google, now other apps.
- ▶ 19:57 Vidit Aatrey Started, we created a Google spreadsheet, listing all the ideas we had, talking to people around us.
Monetizing Podcasts and Newsletters - Chris Best of Substack and Jonathan Gill of Backtracks · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:36 Jonathan Gill Don't like advertising when it doesn't fit with the content and the messaging, but advertising can add value if it's actually in relation to the content, if it's not in the creepy factor that Google and things have, but you can basically…
- ▶ 16:51 Jonathan Gill So YouTube is absolutely centralized and controlled by, by the big G.
HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:42 Brian Halligan How do you get found in Google and social? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:29 Brian Halligan How good are you at getting found in Google?
- ▶ 29:19 Brian Halligan A very small percentage of them comes from ads we do on Facebook and Google.
Software Engineer Turned Youtuber - Jarvis Johnson · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:06 Jarvis Johnson Um, but I was lucky enough to like get some internships and I interned at Google when I was a sophomore. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:31 Craig Cannon And they think, oh man, I don't know if I could ever get the Google job again. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:44 Jarvis Johnson Um, because when I initially started out, I think I wanted to work at Google cause I was afraid that I like couldn't hack it at a, like a smaller, like startup.
A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:46 Austen Allred Um, Google might, um, well, Google has in the past spent a hundred million dollars to retain Sundar and stuff like that. 2 times in the scene
Marques Brownlee on Building an Audience and Other Advice for Creators · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:39 Marques Brownlee Um, I'm reviewing a lot of phones right now whose cameras are just not close to the Pixel's camera in particular, and I know they could get closer.
Mike Knoop on Product and Design Processes for Remote Teams with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:47 Mike Knoop Kind of Google Docs mixed with the wiki.
Karn Saroya on the Capital-Light Way to Start an Insurance Business · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:36 Karn Saroya So the app store, Google play.
Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:01 Ryan Hoover The story with, with us going through YC, so we, we raised, uh, around, around the same time we got into YC, and part of the strategy was, one, we're building something for the tech community, and strategically it was important, or rather…
Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media - Samantha Bradshaw · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:39 Samantha Bradshaw Um, so, a bot, for example, could be a web scraper, like, uh, Google's search engine is essentially a bot, and what it does is it goes out and it crawls the internet in an automated way, um, and then stores information about different… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:39 Samantha Bradshaw Um, so, a bot, for example, could be a web scraper, like, uh, Google's search engine is essentially a bot, and what it does is it goes out and it crawls the internet in an automated way, um, and then stores information about different… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:09 Samantha Bradshaw So not just, um, liking and sharing, but using specific keywords to get content trending, to try to get things at the top of Google's, uh, search, uh, algorithm, trying to get things at the top of YouTube.
- ▶ 17:19 Samantha Bradshaw Um, you know, complete transparency is also not great, because if you perfectly understand what goes viral on Google,
Vinod Khosla : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:01 Vinod Khosla So among the first 15 people at Sun, 15, 20 people, we hired Eric Schmidt, who went on to run Google.
- ▶ 23:36 Vinod Khosla He wanted the people who were all making million dollar salaries at Google and Uber and other places as engineers.
Frank Lantz - Director of NYU's Game Center and Creator of Universal Paperclips · Y Combinator
- ▶ 57:07 Frank Lantz Was the result of, ah, a lot of internal R&D by Google, which people didn't see, because it was Ingress, this game that not a lot of people were playing, a game that probably would not have, was probably not making enough money to be a… 3 times in the scene
Starting a Startup After Business School - Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis of AptDeco · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:56 unnamed speaker But now, it seems like more people are going to, like, you know, like, the Googles and the Facebook
- ▶ 21:34 Kalam Dennis So we have a project list sheet in Google Sheets, simple, stupid, and we have all of our strategic projects that people are working on.
- ▶ 34:56 Kalam Dennis Google.
Andrew Kortina of Venmo and Fin on Technological Determinism and Work's Relationship to Dignity · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:02 Andrew Kortina Um, and when we started, there was like all this excitement about like Alexa and Google Home, and all these pure software AI, natural language processing things, which have very good, um,
- ▶ 43:51 Andrew Kortina But instead of trying to build it with pure software, which if Google can't do, obviously like it's not possible.
Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:38 Brian Donohue You have LTE networks that are super fast, the mobile web has its problems, and there's various efforts to try to solve them, like accelerated, accelerated mobile pages from Google, but at the end of the day, you can still load a website…
- ▶ 23:16 Brian Donohue There was some connection with Andrew and the senior PM from the Google days, and so they knew each other, and it was very friendly, and, um, and then we continued talks with them.
- ▶ 46:21 Brian Donohue Um, I, I've had a lot where I've read this, like, article about startups or entrepreneurship or whatever, and I wanted to recall it and get the thing back, like, pull up the article again, and doing a Google search sometimes it's like,
- ▶ 53:43 Craig Cannon So, I love rapid reading mode, but would also love a voice enabled mode where the Google Assistant or Siri reads it.
- ▶ 53:50 Craig Cannon Speaking of, I'd use it on my Google Home to listen to news, if that were a skill. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:07 Brian Donohue If you're genius, your growth hack is making sure that your lyrics pages are at the top of Google searches for those lyrics.
- ▶ 1:02:34 Craig Cannon He made a, uh, Chrome extension that was like, send to Kindle, but it didn't do anything.
After PMF: People, Customers, Sales by Mathilde Collin · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:20 unnamed speaker Paul talked about what it felt like at Google where everyone knew where they were going and everyone was passionate and everyone believed.
The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:22 Paul Buchheit I, I just kind of, like, scouted out what, what I could find basically on Slashdot, because I would, I would read Slashdot a lot, and I came up with a list of, like, six startups, um, that seemed like they might be interesting, you know,… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:49 Geoff Ralston So you, ah, you spent how much time at Google? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:15 Geoff Ralston Um, before we move on to your, to leaving Google and, um, starting your own company, just maybe say a word about the founding of Gmail and, and how that happened. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:08 Paul Buchheit Decided to, you know, like I kind of know I have a short attention span, so the very first version of Gmail I wrote in a day, um, and it wasn't very good, uh, but I took, I had previously been working on Google Groups, which was like a…
- ▶ 19:04 Paul Buchheit Yeah, so Gmail happened, and yeah, a couple years later I left the company, um, kind of, you know, it was becoming a big company again, and, and I just, um, decided that wasn't the direction I personally wanted to go, um, and I just had a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:53 Paul Buchheit So, yeah, after I left Google, I, I sort of like retired, um, and then we just like get depressed because it turns out. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:22 Paul Buchheit So like for Google, it really is like the end, like the people using Google search.
- ▶ 28:57 Geoff Ralston Yeah, um, so did, when you, when you were, you, uh, FriendFeed was bought by Facebook, and so you, you landed in Facebook, did it have a similar feel to their, I guess Facebook was a little bigger by the time you got bought, but did it… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:45 Paul Buchheit It's just a very exciting feeling to have, like, these products, like, like when we were building Gmail and Maps and stuff, like, there was this feeling, this palpable feeling of, like, this is gonna blow people's minds when we put it out…
- ▶ 41:47 Paul Buchheit Yeah, so I, I thought a lot about, you know, what is it that makes these, these companies that are, you know, Google, Netflix, uh, Amazon, like, all of these, like, just huge, huge companies, like, what is the thing that gets you there,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:52 Paul Buchheit Like one of the biggest problems inside of Google is like we couldn't build data centers fast enough, right? 6 times in the scene
A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:57 Geoff Ralston He's worked at, at, ah, Google and Twitter, and he is increasingly known as an author, claims it's not his career, but he is an author of High Growth Handbook, which is a very cool book. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:05 Elad Gil so, um, I, uh, joined Google, uh, in 2004 and effectively started the mobile team there. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:12 Elad Gil So I helped by Android and pulled together the early teams for Google Mobile Maps and Mobile Gmail, each of which have hundreds of millions of users, but I had nothing to do with that since I left before that massive growth.
- ▶ 22:29 Elad Gil Something magical happens, which is like a Google or Facebook where you had people who then executed, they added new product lines, and they were really great at what they were doing in terms of scaling it to the next level.
- ▶ 28:36 Elad Gil Um, uh, or you have a situation where you do a mix, like at Google, Eric Schmidt had a PhD in CS, but he'd also run Novell before, and, you know, he'd run a public company, and so, uh, it was somebody who'd done the business side of things…
- ▶ 33:12 Elad Gil I worked with her at Google, and so I just asked people I know, who do you know that's investing right now?
Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:54 Shola Akinlade And we can't, like, I run this company on Google.
Cannabis Startup Founders David Hua and Vincent Ning on Legalization, Banking, and Industry Trends · Y Combinator
- ▶ 52:25 Vincent Ning I was gonna say that, and the media plays like a huge part in that, and I think it's really hard, at least for businesses in our industry, to get the word out because, ah, normal channels like Google AdWords or like Facebook Ad Marketing…
Fundraising Fundamentals By Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:35 Geoff Ralston Google venture math, and understand what the venture capitalist cares about.
Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:49 Calvin French-Owen Whether that's an analytics tool like Google Analytics or Mixpanel, maybe a customer success tool like Gainsight, maybe an email tool like Customer.io.
- ▶ 5:04 Diana Hu Now, Niantic is, uh, Niantic is a heavy user of Google Cloud, so move everything to Google Cloud. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:46 Calvin French-Owen And the whole idea was that you would use the same API to send us data as you would send to Mixpanel, Kissmetrics, Google Analytics, all these other tools.
- ▶ 39:09 Calvin French-Owen It's, uh, the idea of O's or objectives, and then key results.
A Conversation with Elizabeth Iorns - Advice for Biotech Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:26 Elizabeth Iorns and so I was trying to use Google, and asking my friends, and asking my old lab, can we use your infrastructure, and it was just incredibly inefficient.
Running Your Company by Patrick Collison · Y Combinator
- ▶ 41:19 Adora Cheung Just because each person adds just more complexity to the organization, but also, I think one is asymmetric information, just people don't, like, are never on the same page, um, and I think, you've talked a lot about this, I think, and…
- ▶ 49:58 Patrick Collison Um, but I think that sort of the, the, the most successful larger organizations somehow, uh, do succeed in sort of this, um, uh, iterative, repeated, repeated process of kind of augmentation, uh, you know, Amazon and Google being kind of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:58 Patrick Collison Um, but I think that sort of the, the, the most successful larger organizations somehow, uh, do succeed in sort of this, um, uh, iterative, repeated, repeated process of kind of augmentation, uh, you know, Amazon and Google being kind of…
- ▶ 52:27 Patrick Collison Um, and that's not the, sort of, standard, obviously, uh, kind of, Silicon Valley pattern where, sort of, Apple and Amazon and Facebook and Google and all these companies, uh, tend to be, sort of, highly concentrated in these, um, uh, sort…
Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:25 Craig Cannon How do you feel about a Gmail, or rather Google wrapping up inbox?
SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:41 Eli Schwartz Brand CPCs on AdWords have gone up.
- ▶ 0:58 Eli Schwartz They're, they're maximizing their paid budgets on, on Google.
- ▶ 3:00 Eli Schwartz And my favorite search tool is, is Google Search Console because it, it's from Google.
- ▶ 4:50 Eli Schwartz If Google drops their bot anywhere within the site, it will crawl through the whole site.
- ▶ 6:34 Eli Schwartz If they don't end up clicking, you still have achieved that, that level of cross-linking that Google can discover it.
- ▶ 7:12 Eli Schwartz That's an absolute no-no, according to Google. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:45 Eli Schwartz Uh, Google announced today that Google home understands Spanish.
- ▶ 9:32 Eli Schwartz So YouTube's different, because Google's not great at really understanding what the video's about. 3 times in the scene