A memorialized startup investor and accelerator Y Combinator has a few words for Google in short Amicus, which has just sent in the monopolistic USA against the search giant.
IN shortYC charged that Google is a “monopolist” who “stopped” the American startup ecosystem, making VC corporations like themselves to finance web search and start -up -ups AI in what he calls the “killing zone” around Google.
“Google cooled independent companies, such as YC, from financing and accelerating innovative startups, which, otherwise, could challenge Google dominance,” he wrote in the application. “The result is a landscape that has been artificially inhibited and stagnant.”
Short YC says that he is currently attempting to finance startups developing tools based on questions and AI agencies that can change the way of interaction with information on the Internet. But YC claims that there is a “clear risk” that Google will use his monopolistic power to decelerate the way forward for these markets.
“Google has effectively freezed searches in the network and text advertising for over a decade,” wrote YC.
Brief, submitted on May 9, was spotted On X via VC Sheel Mohnot, a general partner of Better Tomorrow Ventures and a fertile poster in social media.
But YC does not call for immediately breaking Google, because its general director Garry Tan It was explained in response to Mohnot.
Rather, YC claims that Google should limit the practices that he deems anti -competitive, akin to paying billions of dollars to make Google with a default iPhone search engine. He also wants Google to do things that, he claims, would help startups, akin to the opening of the Google search index, so that others can train LLM on it.
In retrospect, Google Search Algorithms have been a very valued secret since its creation. In order for YC to ask the government to force Google to open it to competitive LLM, it is almost like demanding the Open Source Government Microsoft Windows or forcing Amazon to freely deliver packages to competitors.
If Google does not implement such changes in a five -year time period, then YC is in favor of the government to force Google to sell or throw away a part of itself. CEO YC TAN characterised This idea in post X as a threat of “spinoff hammer”. He also wrote that “we love Google”, but he wants “Little Tech” to succeed in Separate thread x.
To sum up, last yr Google lost a huge antitrust case in connection with the dominance of the search market. While Google refers to a decision, the US government is considering potential penalties (“remedies”) that Google could also be required to implement, akin to chrome spin. These remedies might be expected delivered Until August 2025
The YC position could also be a surprise for those who followed the latest partnerships with Google: in particular Google Cloud gave yc starts access to the dedicated NVIDIA GPU cluster last yr. Google co -founder, Larry Page, also rarely occurred to talk at the YC party in December.
Google also purchased at least two start-ups supported by YC: Flutter in 2014 and fridge in 2011. He also invested in a startup of the gradient fund in 2023.
However, YC is also closely related to OPENAI, which now competes directly with Google in search. Altman himself, the general director of Opeli, led, and Opeli was the first group associate With YC research.
This is something mohnot indicated On X, writing that the biggest beneficiary proposed by YC remedies would definitely be Openai, and not the famous YC startups, while commenting that the short Amicus “paints Google as stronger than it is.”
TechCrunch asked YC how he would react to this criticism and whether he has any specific examples of areas that would probably finance it if it wasn’t for Google. Until now, YC has not responded to our request for comment.
Google also didn’t answer the request for a comment on the summary of YC Amicus. However he argued In the blog post last yr, the suggestions are “radical and wide” and will harm consumers, business and programmers.