Neeva's Sridhar Ramaswamy: "We can do better than Google"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Sridhar Ramaswamy to talk about the problem with search engines (3:45), leaving Google (6:15), where Google went wrong (10:30), on whether people actually care about privacy (14:00), why the government's antitrust suit doesn’t help (19:00), how you build a search engine without the resources of Google (21:45), the importance of the cloud (25:45), the challenge of going from free to paid (28:30), how his former colleagues reacted (31:00), and what keeps him up at night (35:10). PLUS, Miami mayor Francis Suarez comes on to talk about Miami’s moment (35:45), that tweet (37:40), the Covid factor (39:00), why he thinks he’ll succeed his city can rival Austin as America's second tech hub (41:50), how low taxes help (44:30), and telling the story (50:00).

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0:00.0	Yo, technology.
0:03.0	What is it all about?
0:04.5	I tell people, you know, 10, 15 years ago,
0:07.2	you could kind of walk out in normal times, not COVID times,
0:11.2	go buy a newspaper for 30 cents, read it,
0:13.5	drop it into the recycling bin,
0:15.1	and like, nothing happened.
0:17.0	Good luck trying to, you know, go to 10 pages today.
0:32.1	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley.
0:33.6	Thank you for tuning in.
0:34.8	We're still standing.
0:39.0	Yes, I had a bit of a wobble last week, but we're still here.
0:42.5	I'm white-knuckling it until January 20th.
0:48.5	But my goodness, I feel like every week these past few months, I'm like, man, this is a crazy week.
0:49.9	And then the next thing happens.
0:51.9	But I'm hoping, praying that this is not the case next week,
0:56.0	which of course is the inauguration.
0:58.6	Now, I've been writing a lot about big tech's role,
1:00.9	its reaction to the storming of the Capitol and everything else.
1:04.5	And I'm actually writing another big piece for this weekend's paper,
1:07.1	so do check that out.
1:08.2	But on here, taking a break for politics.
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