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Be Wary of Solving a Small, Rare Problem - Des Traynor of Intercom · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:17 Des Traynor So like, that was like one, and whenever I speak to other people who are maybe like earlier on in the marketing career and they're looking for guidance, typically what they find is like, you know, in their Google advertising, they're… 2 times in the scene
Microbes, Robots, and Ambition - Robin Sloan on His Novel Sourdough · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:07 Robin Sloan I'm sure Google would be like, got it.
- ▶ 25:58 Craig Cannon Like if you spend two years working at Facebook or Twitter or Google, a lot of your work is gone.
- ▶ 34:06 Robin Sloan You'd add it to your Google Reader, long lamented, but, I mean, that, the loss of Google Reader was another true, I mean, truly, it was one of the, the nails in the coffin of blogging. 3 times in the scene
Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett on Live Video's Struggle for Interestingness · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:00 Casey Neistat I mean, didn't Google just announced last week some clip on camera that captures what's in front of you? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:05 Matt Hackett Um, in, in typical Google form, they pitched it though as like, this is the center of our AI learning platform about the world, which is the same marketing mistake they made with everyone wants a face computer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:31 Casey Neistat Under that sixth cell was a Google Class video of Jack, who worked with us at the time, um, being pulled over by a police officer, and the interaction of him talking his way out of a ticket.
Mr. Robot's Co-Producer and Writer - Kor Adana · Y Combinator
Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:38 Ryan Hoover When you're trying to take someone from like Google or Facebook, they're getting paid
- ▶ 24:52 Ryan Hoover And so if you look at our, like Google analytics, like a heat map of where people are,
- ▶ 41:11 Ryan Hoover Like my Google home right now is my audio player.
Your Whole Goal Is to Not Quit - Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:36 Courtland Allen So it's social things like Facebook or search, you know, applications like Google, versus things that are profitable.
Building a Startup is About Solving a Problem - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:33 Avni Patel Thompson We did Google AdWord campaigns.
- ▶ 11:25 Avni Patel Thompson I had a landing page on Squarespace, signups and feedback forms were done through Typeform, Stripe handled the payments, I did scheduling via Google Calendar, communication with SMS, and my database was Excel.
The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:48 Tikhon Bernstam oh my God, Google overpaid, which, you know, totally wrong.
- ▶ 5:21 Tikhon Bernstam And the next day you think you're going to sell the Google for a huge amount.
- ▶ 12:20 Tikhon Bernstam Kevin emailed, Kevin had been in YC previously, and then was working at Google, emails Paul and says, listen, I want to get back into startups.
- ▶ 23:12 Tikhon Bernstam Um, a lot of people off the Google search team, for instance,
- ▶ 23:50 Tikhon Bernstam Well, we often, we would talk to a lot of our actual users, like, I mean, there were some amazing, like, engineers who were, like, using Parse, and so even if we couldn't hire them, we could talk to, like, their friends, um, but also, um,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:02 Tikhon Bernstam So there, and then Google bought them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:59 Craig Cannon And like, you know, it would be, I don't know, inappropriate or just not cool for them to put out some like Chrome extension that they just built for themselves.
- ▶ 46:04 Tikhon Bernstam He had Yelp come out of that, uh, Slide, which he, uh, sold to Google.
Artist Lauren McCarthy Will Be Your Home's Brain · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:50 Lauren McCarthy So one that comes to mind is this, ah, extension for Google Hangouts. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:56 Lauren McCarthy It was called Us Plus, um, which is kind of a play on Google Plus.
- ▶ 24:29 Lauren McCarthy Um, I'm, I don't know if excited is the right word, but, um, I've been, like, really obsessed with, uh, just all this home automation stuff and thinking about Alexa and, um, products like that, Google Home, and it's, it's so interesting…
- ▶ 24:29 Lauren McCarthy Um, I'm, I don't know if excited is the right word, but, um, I've been, like, really obsessed with, uh, just all this home automation stuff and thinking about Alexa and, um, products like that, Google Home, and it's, it's so interesting…
The CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate From the Bay · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:13 Wade Foster So, you know, like, Google gets better because more people use Google.
Baidu's AI Lab Director on Advancing Speech Recognition and Simulation · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:30 Craig Cannon I found this when I was traveling, like I was using a Google translate and I, uh, after like one day recognized that I couldn't give it a sentence.
VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:17 unnamed speaker First Google, Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:52 Jessica Livingston You had some time with your kids, and then you joined the board of Google.
- ▶ 14:37 Diane Greene I even think Google G Suite is doing it.
- ▶ 14:54 Jessica Livingston So then what made you decide, you're working on this super ambitious plan that you know is, it's broken, and you're gonna, you're gonna do this, what made you sell to Google?
- ▶ 15:12 Diane Greene One was that, in terms of being on the alphabet board by then, no, it was still Google, it was just become, no, it was still the Google board. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:59 Diane Greene And the AI and the machine learning and the, you know, just everything that Google has, the maps and the,
- ▶ 16:15 Diane Greene So they were, so, and I was busy kind of helping them find someone to come in and run Google Cloud. 2 times in the scene
Morgan DeBaun on Reaching 20M Millennials - With Kat Manalac at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:03 Morgan DeBaun Then you graduate, and you go work at a Google or an Intuit, and you're making 50,000 dollars plus, like, out of nowhere, right?
- ▶ 9:51 Morgan DeBaun Every day, Google Analytics, every hour, looking at real-time analytics, and you can see the difference, and you just, I just didn't ignore it.
Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning - Doug Eck of Magenta · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:04 Craig Cannon Doug's a research scientist at Google, and he's working on Magenta, which is a project making music and art through machine learning.
- ▶ 0:26 Craig Cannon The quote that you ended your IO talk with, uh, because I feel like that might be helpful for some folks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:29 Doug Eck So first, at a more, at a higher level, Sketch RNN is a recurrent neural network trained on sketches to make sketches, and the sketches came from a game that Google released called Quick Draw, where people had 20 seconds to draw something…
- ▶ 20:16 Doug Eck Now the running joke, like having coffee here at Brain is sort of like, like what, what other technology from the eighties should we rescue?
- ▶ 21:49 Craig Cannon I, I was thinking about how you were, um, was it the TensorFlow or the IO talk where you're talking about Bach?
- ▶ 28:07 Doug Eck We have, and I said, I think this is as a community in Google and outside of Google and outside of Magenta. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:20 Doug Eck Yeah, so the, I, I'm, I'm working here at Google, and you know, this is like a coal mine of work to do this Project Magenta, like, every day.
IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:39 Juan Benet Um, really I think, like, the only option was either, ah, university or, or, um, Google, and in the university case, it would have been killed in, in the, you know, publish or perish world where, like, hey, this is way too ambitious. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:44 Juan Benet Another thing was, it was right around the same time of the rise of the normal cloud, um, so Google had been, Google and other companies were investing very deeply into building, like, large-scale distributed systems, and
- ▶ 47:06 Juan Benet Everyone trusts, uh, Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Airbnb, or whatever. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:02 Dalton Caldwell But like, the closest equivalent to that are things like OpenAI or Google Brain and all that, where like, there's absolutely no practical use of that stuff. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:59 Juan Benet I want to draw an analogy between what happened at Bell Labs and Google Brain. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:03 Juan Benet So it's either massive monopolies like Bell or Google or massive monopolies like the US in, in power of being able to say we need 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:18 Juan Benet I think at that point, like you, the, the valuation of something like Ethereum gets, gets as high as something like Google and, and, and Apple and so on. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:31 Juan Benet It's possible that someone like Google and so on creates it, but 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38:49 Juan Benet Like, there's a ton of people that work at Google and a ton of people that work at a bunch of other places that could contribute massively to these projects by just spending a few hours, maybe,
- ▶ 1:56:10 Juan Benet Can you really, you know, get a better unit economics of like, can you, can you provide bytes cheaper than something like, um, Google Cloud or Amazon or whatever?
- ▶ 2:05:08 Juan Benet When I look at things like Slack or GitHub or Google Docs that are consumer applications that people use daily to do their work and talk to their coworkers or loved ones or, you know, things like messengers and so on, um, and all of that… 2 times in the scene
Ex Machina's Scientific Advisor - Murray Shanahan · Y Combinator
- ▶ 47:24 Murray Shanahan If they wanted to learn more about me, I can't think why they would want to, but if they did, they can Google my name and find my website.
- ▶ 49:43 Murray Shanahan So I highly recommend Googling them.
Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:45 Gustaf Alströmer So you have Facebook platform, you have the mobile platform, you have Google, SEO, there's a bunch of larger platforms that makes people actually care about investing in them.
- ▶ 16:05 Gustaf Alströmer I would say, um, a lot of those platforms that you are doing growth on, Google, Facebook, um, they are turning, kind of, the opportunity of doing free growth there is getting smaller, and the opportunity of doing paid growth better is…
- ▶ 19:00 Josh Elman Facebook's gotten relatively expensive to be buying on Google's various platforms and video.
How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? – Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 25:26 Jeff Bussgang Would Sheryl, if she had never gotten an MBA and never taken the two years out, would she have scaled as an executive and as a leader at Google and then later at Facebook?
- ▶ 27:15 Jeff Bussgang And I think what I say to people when I talk to young professionals who ask me that question is if you have high conviction that you're in the middle of a Google or a Facebook or a LinkedIn and you've got mentors and you've got a great…
At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:16 Tim Hwang I'm a global public policy lead on AI and machine learning for Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25 Craig Cannon So, uh, could you just back up a little bit and explain like what doing policy for Google actually means in the context of AI? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:20 Craig Cannon And then as a like Google or alphabet as like this international institution at this point, how are you guys thinking about interacting with different countries as this happens?
- ▶ 20:59 Tim Hwang So there's a really fun project, uh, Google has this project called AI Experiments, which is a lot of kind of, like, small things like this, which kind of demonstrate the kind of artistic possibilities of technology.
- ▶ 26:04 Craig Cannon Do you think AI will be like dominated by massive companies like Google, Facebook? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:14 Tim Hwang I was like, why do we think about like Siri or like the Google assistant as like AIs, but we don't necessarily think about like the Facebook newsfeed as an AI, right?
From Startup to Scaleup | Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:38 Reid Hoffman Like, when she started at Google,
An AI Primer with Wojciech Zaremba · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:19 Wojciech Zaremba Uh, prior to that, I spent a year at Google Brain and I spent a year at Facebook AI Research and, uh, same time I graduated from, uh, uh, I, I have finished my PhD at NYU. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:59 Wojciech Zaremba These are, uh, these are, like, the initial results are coming from DeepMind, uh, and, um, but, but simultaneously, um, simultaneously, it takes extremely long time, like, in terms of real-time execution, to learn to play computer games,…
- ▶ 11:17 Wojciech Zaremba You can say that, so initial version, for instance, of Google search was, uh, based on, um, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:46 Wojciech Zaremba Uh, Google knows, uh, what is the good search query for you, because on the search result page you are clicking on the links that you are interested in, and therefore they should be displayed first.
The Technical Advisor for Silicon Valley on HBO: Ed McManus · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:42 Craig Cannon Um, so one of the things that I was wondering is, like, often times we find, at least around YC, that, you know, like, Google or Hooli isn't gonna immediately replicate whatever you're working on.
- ▶ 13:24 Ed McManus Um, Google, like we, we all kind of like have like all of my experiences with Google being sort of the dominant company. 2 times in the scene
Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:20 Ammon Bartram So, for example, Google, you know, has, intentionally or unintentionally, grown very much in a computer science direction, and that's obviously worked out, you know, very well for them.
- ▶ 10:32 Ammon Bartram Yes, we do this all over Google Hangouts.
- ▶ 14:58 Ammon Bartram Um, whereas the, the big companies, you know, Facebook, Dropbox, Apple, Google, are more likely to say, we care about,
Team and Execution with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 2) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:19 Sam Altman If you work at Facebook or Google or something like that, um, it's probably almost as co-founder rich as Stanford.
- ▶ 13:46 unnamed speaker But you'll notice that if you go work at Facebook or Google, one of the things they do in your first few weeks is an HR person sits you down and like beats out of you every smart person you've ever met.
- ▶ 38:00 Sam Altman Uh, Apple, Facebook, and Google have all done this extremely well.
Drew Houston : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:09 Drew Houston Um, we heard a lot of, we got a lot of pushback from investors saying, hey, look, this is, you know, Google's going to do this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:50 Drew Houston Um, I like to study just, uh, the history of business, um, and, and really excellence, and so learning, uh, about, okay, well, it's one thing to know how Google was built or how Facebook was built,
Office Hours with Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:40 Craig Cannon Because now we have like, you know, daydream, whatever, fairly cheap.