Why Ex-Google Ads Boss Sridhar Ramaswamy is Building An Ads-Free Search Engine

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Technology, Religion & Spirituality, Business News, Business, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Politics, News Commentary, Government, Investing, Tech News, Social Sciences, News

4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Sridhar Ramaswamy is CEO of Neeva, an ads-free search engine he helped found after running Google's ads and commerce business. Ramaswamy spent seventeen years inside Google, and eventually grew disillusioned with its business. Now he's trying to create the solution with $77.5 million in funding. In this conversation, we discuss his evolving view on advertising, what decoupling search from ads allows from a product standpoint, and how the current anti-trust environment is opening Google up to the competition.

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1:12.5	Joining us today is Sridar Ramoswamy, the former head of ads and commerce at Google,
1:18.7	who is building a new ads-free search engine called Niva. Niva is one of the most interesting startups on the market today. It's raised $77.5 million and is going after a tech giant's bread
1:25.6	and butter. That tech giant, of course, is Google.
1:28.2	Sridar's former employee employer.
1:31.0	Sridar is also someone I've wanted to speak with for quite some time.
1:34.8	And I'm so glad he agreed to come on with us today.
1:37.5	Svidar, welcome to the show.
1:40.1	Alex, super excited to chat with you.
1:42.2	Love your writing.
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