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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.
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.