Sarah Wang

You can kind of think of Google as being synonymous with search, right?

It's one of the greatest tech monopolies of the last few decades.

We have a family open club, Michael Clodberg, and we wanted to give it web access.

And he was like, I recommend Exa.

Welcome, Will.

Thank you for being here.

So I want to start with the origin story.

You've been interested in search for a long time.

In fact, you and your co-founder, Jeff, actually started building a mini search engine in college, which is not what I was doing in college.

Can you say more about when you started getting interested in search and why you wanted to solve this problem?

Maybe just to probe a little bit deeper, you can kind of think of Google as being synonymous with search, right?

It's one of the greatest tech monopolies of the last few decades.

The idea that a startup could be better than Google at search is quite amazing.

But how do you define perfect search?

And what do you see as the limitations of Google?

And I'll throw in more recent events because obviously, you know, IO just took place last week and they're very focused on AI mode and how they talk about the idea of information agents and things like that.

How do you think about beating old Google, if you will?

And then there's, of course, new Google that's evolving.

I want to read this book.

It's probably on hold right now.