Fabled Startup Investor and Accelerator Y Combinator has some choice for Google in a brief report that has just been subjected to the monopoly case of the US against the search giant.
To briefThe YC charged that Google is a “monopoly” that has “stopped” the US ecosystem, making VC companies as she hesitates to fund web search and newly established AI companies in what calls “Kill Zone” around Google.
“Google has frozen independent companies such as the YC from funding and accelerating innovative newly established businesses that otherwise could question Google’s dominance,” YC writes in the deposition. “The result is a landscape that has artificially irregular and stationary.”
Shortly short, it is currently seeking to finance the newly formed businesses that develop questions based on questions and agentic AIs that could convert how people interact with internet information. But YC says there is a “clear danger” that Google will use its monopoly power to slow down the future of these markets.
“Google has effectively downloaded the web and text search promotional markets for over a decade,” YC writes.
The short, filed on May 9 spotted In X by VC Sheel Mohnot, Better Tomorrow Ventures and a social media poster.
But YC does not ask for immediate dissolution of Google as CEO of Garry Tan made it clear in response to Mohnot.
On the contrary, the YC argues that Google should limit practices it considers to be countermeasures, such as the payment of Apple Bills of Dollars to make the default iPhone search engine. Google also wants to do things that argue that it will help start -up businesses, such as opening the Google search index, so that others can train LLMS on it.
For perspective, Google’s search algorithms were its secret since its start. For the YC to ask the government to force Google to open it to competitive LLMS it is almost like demanding the government to make Microsoft Windows Open Source or forcing Amazon to deliver free packages for competitors.
If Google does not apply such changes within a five -year period, then YC supports the government to force Google to assign or rotate its parts. The CEO of YC Tan characterized This idea in a publication x as a threat of “Spinoff Hammer”. He also posted that “we love google” but also wants to achieve “little technology” in a separate thread x.
To recapitate, last year Google lost a huge antitrust case for its search market domination. While Google is offending the decision, the US government wants possible punishments (“corrective measures”) that Google may be forced to apply, such as Chrome’s withdrawal. These remedies are expected to be surrender Until August 2025.
YC’s stance may be a surprise to those who have followed her latest collaborations with Google: More specifically, Google Cloud has given YC access to an exclusive NVIDIA GPU complex last year. Google’s co -founder also made a rare personal appearance to speak at a YC event in December.
Google has also acquired at least two newly established businesses: Flutter in 2014 and refrigerator in 2011. It was also invested in the start of YC Infisical through its inclination fund in 2023.
However, the YC is also closely connected to Openai, which now competes with Google in the search. Openai CEO Sam Altman used YC while Openai was the first team connected with the YC survey.
This is something mohnot sharp In X, writing that the largest beneficiary of YC’s proposed corrective measures would largely be Openai, instead of the famous YC newly established businesses, commenting that Amicus briefly “paints Google as more powerful than it is”.
Techcrunch asked YC how to respond to this criticism and whether it has specific examples of areas that would probably have funded if it wasn’t for Google. So far, the YC has not responded to our comment request.
Google did not respond to a request for commentary on YC’s Amicus short. However, this supported In a blog post last year that Doj’s proposals are “radical and sweeping” and would hurt consumers, businesses and developers.
