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The James Altucher Show

Ep. 54 - Gabriel Weinberg: The Man Who is Fighting Google

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Society & Culture, Talk Radio, Writer, Philosophy, Comedy, Chess, How To, Entrepreneurship, Jay, James, The James Altucher Show, Altucher, Author, Jay Yow, Education, Jay The Engineer, Business, James Altucher

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2014

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Are you interested in startups? Have you thought about creating one or have already started your own?If so, then you will be happy to hear that today's guest reveals all his secrets to launching a successful business.Gabriel Weinberg, the founder...

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.4

This is the James Altitor show on the Stansbury radio network.

0:11.8

I'm here with Gabriel Weinberg of Duck Duck Go, a search engine of all things.

0:28.0

Gabriel, you must get it all the time.

0:29.6

If you're at a cocktail party and people say, hey, what do you do?

0:34.8

And you say, oh, I made a search engine.

0:37.1

Don't people kind of like look at you funny and say, well, isn't there Google?

0:41.0

Yes, yes.

0:42.0

I pretty much avoided it again.

0:44.0

Honestly.

0:45.0

You avoid cocktail parties or you avoid saying what you do or you lie about what you do.

0:50.2

All three, to some extent.

0:52.8

Sometimes I just say run a search engine, but oftentimes I'll say just, you know, I do

0:56.7

programming or something like that.

0:58.5

And like what's the most common joke you get back?

1:01.5

Like, oh, you see you have Google?

1:03.5

Yeah, I just have to give the company pitch at that point, which, you know, happens

1:08.8

you now if you like, but I just, I generally don't like pitching, you know, and random cocktail

1:13.8

parties.

1:14.8

I just find it, you know, I'm not there to pitch people.

1:17.0

Yeah, and your wife must get sick of that anyway.

1:19.0

She's heard it a million times.

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