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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
- ▶ 10:21 Eli Schwartz So all of that goes into what Google's going to rank the app on Google Play.
- ▶ 11:34 Eli Schwartz So Google, as much as they say they're really good at understanding and ranking JavaScript, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:53 Eli Schwartz You don't really need to rank on unclogged drains anymore, because Google is very local. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:43 Eli Schwartz Now, before you start, what you can do is you can go to the Google keyword tool. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:26 Craig Cannon And are you tracking that through Google analytics or using other tools? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:24 Craig Cannon That's the easiest to parse for, you know, Google and other things that are crawling your site. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:16 Eli Schwartz But there is an SEO aspect to that, and that is, people, like, Google Images is one of the largest, if you want to think about it as a separate search engine, it's one of the largest search engines after Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:31 Eli Schwartz But for now, I don't know that Google is really looking into the quality of the image, and they're not yet, I don't think, they're at a place where they're understanding what the image is and then choosing to rank it. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:33 Eli Schwartz So there's a lot of talk about mobile first and Google moving to mobile first.
- ▶ 34:09 Eli Schwartz Google actually hides URLs in search to begin with, and you can't, you know, they test it. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:09 Eli Schwartz Google actually hides URLs in search to begin with, and you can't, you know, they test it.
- ▶ 39:04 Eli Schwartz So, unless Korea is a specific target for you, or China is a specific target, Google's all you're gonna need. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:05 Eli Schwartz And they're basing that on other things they've seen, things they've read, things that Google has talked about. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:00 Eli Schwartz And it was the day Google rolled out the Google Panda update. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:00 Eli Schwartz And it was the day Google rolled out the Google Panda update.
- ▶ 47:56 Eli Schwartz Google could change their mind, or users could change their minds, and like, that is the wrong way of, uh, of aligning your, your SEO efforts. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:17 Craig Cannon Um, what about these tools, like, so you mentioned Ahrefs, you mentioned Google Analytics.
- ▶ 50:20 Eli Schwartz But the way I learned this was I was working for a company that would, and I was managing affiliates, and at the time, and it might still be true, the most expensive AdSense keyword and AdWords keywords was mesothelioma, the lung cancer…
- ▶ 50:20 Eli Schwartz But the way I learned this was I was working for a company that would, and I was managing affiliates, and at the time, and it might still be true, the most expensive AdSense keyword and AdWords keywords was mesothelioma, the lung cancer… 2 times in the scene
PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:44 Craig Cannon Um, the first thing I would do is set up Mixpanel, not Google Analytics, uh, but something similar to Mixpanel will get the job done.
- ▶ 16:18 Craig Cannon If you Google, uh, just those two words, you'll read a bunch of blog posts about that.
Suhail Doshi - How to Measure Your Product · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:36 Suhail Doshi I don't get it.
- ▶ 12:51 Suhail Doshi Like, Google was about page views.
- ▶ 16:28 Suhail Doshi In fact, um, I remember there was a YC company called Zenter which turned into, like, Google Slides, and I remember Robbie Walker during one of our, um, one of, uh, one of our Tuesday dinners said that they had, they didn't even implement…
- ▶ 17:22 Suhail Doshi You just go to Google, you type it in, and you immediately get to use the product.
- ▶ 20:42 Suhail Doshi Where people, with Google Analytics, you just copy and paste the JavaScript.
- ▶ 22:46 Suhail Doshi And good examples of this are actually, like, Airbnb and Google, where you just, you just try it.
- ▶ 39:04 unnamed speaker If you're like, uh, create an account name and password and doing all that kind of signup versus a single, like, button login with, like, Google LinkedIn API, how does that, like, transfer? 2 times in the scene
A Conversation with Ooshma Garg - Moderated by Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:30 Ooshma Garg And just like Google with search, the company that cracks it in food, I think will be like the long-term winner and have all these, um, learnings built on top of each other to where you build a long-term sustainable advantage.
Peter Reinhardt on Finding Product Market Fit at Segment · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:22 Peter Reinhardt Let's build a better web analytics, mobile web app analytics tool to compete with Mixpanel and Google Analytics.
- ▶ 7:15 Craig Cannon You definitely, you, at the time you were not 10 X better than Google.
- ▶ 8:25 Peter Reinhardt So we Googled analytics, and we found Google Analytics Mixpanel and Casmetrics.
- ▶ 8:25 Peter Reinhardt So we Googled analytics, and we found Google Analytics Mixpanel and Casmetrics. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:20 Craig Cannon If you go around and start Googling, like, should I hire a CMO?
Michael Seibel - Building Product · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:59 Michael Seibel How many of you, um, are using Google Analytics as your primary metrics products? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:49 Michael Seibel Facebook wasn't first to social networking, and Google wasn't first to search engines.
A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 46:47 Geoff Ralston And it's probably online, too, so you could Google it.
Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:03 Ryan Petersen If you Google like MBA debt, Ryan Peterson, it's on the internet somewhere, um, about how to, what I did, which was find these part time jobs and generate some income while I was so that I could, I, I don't know timeframes, like even flex…
- ▶ 16:45 Ryan Petersen Um, the, the earliest customers for Flexport we got via Google AdWords and SEO and just signups and people just finding us on the internet, signing up for the service.
- ▶ 52:12 Craig Cannon And you know, like, were you putting money down on, you know, SEO, like AdWords, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:25 Ryan Petersen Um, 10 years ago when I first started doing these landing pages for Flexport, or eight years ago, I was, SEO was different and easier, I think, and I would like, I knew how it worked, and now I don't know that much about how to rank in…
- ▶ 57:20 Ryan Petersen Getting the little wins that they matter much more than it seems because they're going to compound on themselves and that, you know, the way it looked in flex sports cases, like a decade of small wins and successes that got us into Y…
Sam Altman - How to Succeed with a Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:40 Sam Altman If you think about the most successful companies you know, Google, Facebook, whatever, ah, you probably found out about them because a friend of yours said, you gotta try this, it's great.
Jessica Brillhart, Immersive Director, on VR and AR · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:10 Jessica Brillhart So I was at Google for eight years. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:35 Jessica Brillhart Um, so I helped develop, uh, so jump, which was their, uh, VR live action kind of capture ecosystem, um, for live action foot, uh, VR footage.
- ▶ 1:08 Jessica Brillhart Um, namely, you know, I thought that, um, there was something really interesting, um, parallels between the machine learning team and the Google brain team, and also what was happening on the VR team.
- ▶ 2:34 Jessica Brillhart So I thought it was all, and I had before also like worked with, um, I had worked on some stuff, uh, kind of envisioning what the future would be like when, when, when glass was around. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:20 Jessica Brillhart I mean, that was really funny because, um, that's sort of, so in Seattle, uh, so the jump team, I think is still in Seattle.
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