Fabbed Startup Investors and Excelor Wi -Combinterator have some selection words for Google that are at an amxic briefing, which has just been submitted to the US monopoly case against search giant.
I ConciseYC charged that Google is a “monopoly” that has made VC firms like itself a US start -up ecosystem “stunt”, which is called “cloning zone” around Google, which feels reluctant to fund web search and AI startup.
“Google has cooled down by funding and accelerating modern startups like the YC, which could otherwise challenge Google’s dominance,” the YC wrote in the filing. “The result is a landscape that has been artificially amazing and stable.”
The YC briefer says it is currently trying to fund the question -based and agent AI tools producing startups, how people interact with information on the Internet. But the YC says there is a “clear threat” that Google will use its monopoly power to slow down the future of these markets.
“Google has effectively frozen web search and text advertising markets for more than a decade,” said YC.
Was short filed on May 9 Spatted VC Shell Mohanot on X, General Partner of Better Total Ventures and a social media poster.
But WiC is not demanding Google’s immediate breakup, as its CEO Gary Tan In response to Mohanot made it clear.
Rather, the YC is arguing that Google should overcome the methods it considers anti -competitive, such as paying Apple billions of dollars to make Google a default search engine of the iPhone. It also wants Google to do things that argue that will help in the beginning, such as opening Google’s search index so that other people can train LLM on it.
For the point of view, Google’s search algorithm has been a very valuable secret from its inception. The government is equivalent to demanding the government to open Google to open Google to competitive LLM, demanding the government to open Microsoft Windows to open source, or forcing Amazon to freely supply packages for rivals.
If Google does not implement such changes in the five -year time frame, the YC advocates the government to force Google to divide or target itself. YC CEO Tan Specialty In the X Post, this idea is as a threat to a “spin of hammer”. He also posted that “we love Google” but “Little Tech” also wants to succeed, even in Separate X -thread.
To recover, last year Google lost the issue of mass distrust over its search market dominance. Although Google appeals to the decision, the US government is eliminating potential penalties (“treatment”) that may need to enforce Google, such as removing chrome. These treatments are expected Supply By August 2025.
The YC’s position may be surprising to those who have followed its latest partnership with Google: In particular, Google Cloud provided the YC Startups last year’s NVIDIA GPUS access to a dedicated cluster. Google co -founder Larry Page personally made an extraordinary appearance to make a speech at the WiC event.
Google has also acquired at least two YC -backed startups: blowing in 2014, and refrigerator In 2011. He also invested in YC Startup Infrastructure through his gradual fund in 2023.
However, the YC is also closely tied to the open, which is now competing directly against Google on the search. Open CEO operated to Sam Altman WiC, while Open was the first group Supported With YC Research.
This is something Mohanot Indicated On X, writing that the biggest advantage of the proposed treatment of the YC, yet, will be open rather than the beginning of the famous early stage of the YC, while commenting that Amex short “gives Google a far more powerful color.”
Tech Crunch asked the YC how she would respond to this criticism, and would it have a special example of areas that would probably be funded if it had not been Google? So far, YC has not responded to our comment request.
Google either did not respond to the request to comment on YC’s Amex briefing. However, it Debate In a blog post last year, DOJ’s suggestions are “radical and clean” and will hurt consumers, businesses and developers.