01 / recommendation
Mentions personal use of The Expanse series.
“I started reading the books of The Expanse series. They are so good. I finished the first one, I’m in the second one.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
Acquired / episode intelligence
Google Maps
Speakers in the public record
Claim mix
evaluation 8belief 6uncertainty 2disagreement 2prediction 2recommendation 1commitment 1observation 1
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23 published records
02 / belief
I think on the 10th anniversary of the iPhone talking about how duct tape it all was together in the first version.
“I think on the 10th anniversary of the iPhone talking about how duct tape it all was together in the first version.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
03 / belief
I think you might be able to build really big companies that use Shopify and Shopify’s customers as a platform and in particular Shopify fulfillment that was just launched, which is not them doing their own fulfillment.
“I think you might be able to build really big companies that use Shopify and Shopify’s customers as a platform and in particular Shopify fulfillment that was just launched, which is not them doing their own fulfillment.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
04 / belief
I may mix this up, but I think NavTeq got acquired by Nokia and Tela Atlas got acquired by TomTom.
“I may mix this up, but I think NavTeq got acquired by Nokia and Tela Atlas got acquired by TomTom.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
05 / uncertainty
I don’t know if he conceived dev and launch but he was a key executive on Facebook for Work.
“I don’t know if he conceived dev and launch but he was a key executive on Facebook for Work.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
06 / evaluation
Maps kind of sucks. It really kind of sucked, and maybe, they could build something that was better.
“Maps kind of sucks. It really kind of sucked, and maybe, they could build something that was better.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
07 / evaluation
I’m remembering this is when I was at the Wall Street Journal, it was right around then that they open up the business side of the Google Maps API and they start charging to license out the map’s API.
“I’m remembering this is when I was at the Wall Street Journal, it was right around then that they open up the business side of the Google Maps API and they start charging to license out the map’s API.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
08 / belief
Keyhole was unlike Where 2, was a well-funded startup in, I believe, located in Silicon Valley, California.
“Keyhole was unlike Where 2, was a well-funded startup in, I believe, located in Silicon Valley, California.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
09 / belief
I think, when people talk about the emerging AR market, I think that's the widest use.
“I think, when people talk about the emerging AR market, I think that's the widest use.”
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
10 / uncertainty
Everything we’ve talked about on this episode from Where 2, to Keyhole to ZipDash, all the work internally, to Street View and VuTool, all of these over the years, all these engineering that Google has put into Maps. I don’t know how long they were working on Apple Maps internally.
“Everything we’ve talked about on this episode from Where 2, to Keyhole to ZipDash, all the work internally, to Street View and VuTool, all of these over the years, all these engineering that Google has put into Maps. I don’t know how long they were working on Apple Maps internally.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
11 / commitment
Who comes out on stage to introduce it but Scott Forstall. We won’t be harsh. I mean, it’s so hard to build a mapping service.
“Who comes out on stage to introduce it but Scott Forstall. We won’t be harsh. I mean, it’s so hard to build a mapping service.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
12 / observation
Clearly, the only way that you could build an application with this performance, this dynamic, would be with Desktop software.
“Clearly, the only way that you could build an application with this performance, this dynamic, would be with Desktop software.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
13 / belief
I didn’t go back and looked it up, but I think their stocks dropped to 30% on the day of announcement.
“I didn’t go back and looked it up, but I think their stocks dropped to 30% on the day of announcement.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
14 / evaluation
The criteria that we use for grading, for anybody who’s joined the show in the last season-and-a-half or something for grading acquisitions, is how good of an idea was it for the big company to buy the small company?
“The criteria that we use for grading, for anybody who’s joined the show in the last season-and-a-half or something for grading acquisitions, is how good of an idea was it for the big company to buy the small company?”
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
15 / evaluation
They bought it for a billion dollars. I think that acquisition was pre-bubble bursting.
“They bought it for a billion dollars. I think that acquisition was pre-bubble bursting.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
16 / disagreement
I agree with Sequoia’s decision to ultimately pass because maybe they could have gotten distribution on their own.
“I agree with Sequoia’s decision to ultimately pass because maybe they could have gotten distribution on their own.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
17 / evaluation
Because these cars are still actively driving around all over the place, capturing all this data, where you can actually in Street View go and change the year that you are looking at.
“Because these cars are still actively driving around all over the place, capturing all this data, where you can actually in Street View go and change the year that you are looking at.”
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
18 / prediction
I think at the time have been really hard to do as an independent company because there was no way, even if you went public, you couldn’t raise the amount of money that companies can raise now.
“I think at the time have been really hard to do as an independent company because there was no way, even if you went public, you couldn’t raise the amount of money that companies can raise now.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
19 / evaluation
Of course it had to be Apple engineers because there were APIs that were optimized for performance.
“Of course it had to be Apple engineers because there were APIs that were optimized for performance.”
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
20 / evaluation
One, I remember the halls of Office for iPad or the Apex team at Microsoft World buzz when this came out because everyone is downloading it, everyone is analyzing their user interface paradigms.
“One, I remember the halls of Office for iPad or the Apex team at Microsoft World buzz when this came out because everyone is downloading it, everyone is analyzing their user interface paradigms.”
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
21 / evaluation
One is something we didn’t talk about but was actually a really big piece of value creation for Google Maps, which was Google Map Maker, and Lars talked about this in a talk that he gave 6–7 years ago. It’s an old YouTube video, 3000 views, but basically, in order to build out maps, especially before they had all the cars driving around with cameras really operationalized, they got a lot of their early data from relying on the passion of locals who I think were called Google guides or Google local guides, who wanted to improve digital maps for their area because they saw this dream of, “Oh my God.
“One is something we didn’t talk about but was actually a really big piece of value creation for Google Maps, which was Google Map Maker, and Lars talked about this in a talk that he gave 6–7 years ago. It’s an old YouTube video, 3000 views, but basically, in order to build out maps, especially before they had all the cars driving around with cameras really operationalized, they got a lot of their early data from relying on the passion of locals who I think were called Google guides or Google local guides, who wanted to improve digital maps for their area because they saw this dream of, “Oh my God.”
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
22 / prediction
Waze especially picks things up from here because Google, a couple of months after this, Waze gets a huge traffic boost and download boost from Tim Cook’s letter where Waze is one of the applications he recommends.
“Waze especially picks things up from here because Google, a couple of months after this, Waze gets a huge traffic boost and download boost from Tim Cook’s letter where Waze is one of the applications he recommends.”
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired
23 / disagreement
Mentions personal use of MapQuest.
“In researching this last night, I discovered that MapQuest is still around. You can go to mapquest.com. The logo is something that I have never seen in my life. Of course, it's owned by Verizon because the whole AOL to Yahoo! Verizon thing. It's still a thing you can use that uses a map box, licenses, and data. I couldn't believe it was still around. The last time I used MapQuest, I was printing out the directions so that when I'm driving somewhere, I could look at the piece of paper.”
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Episode
- Google Maps
- Publisher
- Acquired