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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Apple comes up
20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
- ▶ 28:53 Rebecca Lynn Because one time when Apple didn't buy anybody or Microsoft didn't pay anything if they did buy somebody.
20VC: Qualtrics' Ryan Smith on Building A $Bn Company & Raising The Largest Series A Since 2008 From Sequoia & Accel
- ▶ 17:21 Ryan Smith We have an all hands meeting every Thursday and there's Kim Malone Scott, Kim Scott, who's my CEO coach and along an old Googler and Apple university, she created this thing called whoops where we've, we've incorporated where we stand up…
20VC: Who Will Own The Data? Is There An Incumbency Advantage in AI? When Will Artificial Super Intelligence Come To The Forefront with Rudina Seseri, Founder and Managing Director @ Glasswing Ventures
- ▶ 4:23 unnamed speaker Perhaps Apple, because it nearly died and then Jobs came back and kind of reinvented it and resuscitated it.
20VC: Social Capital's Mamoon Hamid on Disrupting The Venture Model & Advancing Humanity By Solving The World's Toughest Problems
- ▶ 18:04 Mamoon Hamid Apple and Amazon, they're actually kind of economies of scale businesses and harder to build and more traditional businesses, but definitely, like, if you think about more traditional software businesses that we want to invest, they… 5 times in the scene
20VC: How You Can Learn To Be A Great Business Leader & Why All Successful Business Must Be Loved or Needed with Moisey Uretsky, Founder @ Digital Ocean
- ▶ 10:00 Moisey Uretsky And I think if you look at, you know, Apple's greatest success, I mean, Apple 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:49 Moisey Uretsky And that's basically an ongoing challenge, I think, at all companies, and I mean, certainly one that Apple's facing, like, well, how do you recreate the magic that Steve Jobs did now that he's not here?
20VC: Why The Evolution of Digital Media Presents A Multi $Bn Opportunity with Brit Morin, Founder & CEO @ Brit + Co
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings As for Brit, prior to Brit & Co, Brit worked at Google in product management, and before that with Apple on iTunes.
- ▶ 24:05 unnamed speaker I mean, honestly, I mean, Dave is an amazing mentor to me, and getting to watch him through everything he's done with Apple, and then Facebook, and then Path, and now he's kind of, like, on this new, um, Path, no pun intended, to consider…
20VC: Dave Morin on Why Building A Fund Is Like A Company, Why Venture Is A Craft & The Journey To Establish Slow Ventures
- ▶ 7:37 Dave Morin My experience both at Facebook and then prior to that at Apple's kind of reflected that it takes a long time, intense focus, and a lot of ups and a lot of downs.
20VC: Do VC's Really Hustle Enough? The Takeaways From Watching Twitter Scale From 30 to 2,500 & Why Chris Sacca Is Like Yoda with Ryan Sarver, Partner @ Redpoint
- ▶ 20:44 Harry Stebbings So let's start with Apple opening up Siri. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Maximising Engagement and Retention on Mobile & Why There Should Always Be Availability To A Free Product with Sean Brecker, CEO @ Headspace
- ▶ 13:20 Sean Brecker So for instance, when Apple released the Apple watch, they came to us and asked us if we would consider putting our SOS meditations, you know, these short form two minute meditations for when you've, you're having some kind of crisis and… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:20 Sean Brecker So for instance, when Apple released the Apple watch, they came to us and asked us if we would consider putting our SOS meditations, you know, these short form two minute meditations for when you've, you're having some kind of crisis and… 3 times in the scene
20VC: Upfront Ventures' Greg Bettinelli on Testing For Founder 'Grit' & What It Takes To Build A Successful Consumer Brand Today
- ▶ 15:51 Greg Bettinelli So I think brand or, you know, consumers today are very receptive to think of Apple, think of Lululemon, think of those types of brands, but they have incredible loyalty.
20VC: Why Hardware Is Actually Software Wrapped In Plastic & "Of Course Hardware Is Hard, Everything Is Hard" with Ben Einstein, Founder & General Partner @ Bolt VC
- ▶ 6:25 Ben Einstein Um, you know, it used to be if you were, whatever, Apple, uh, you know, 20 years ago, and you were building a new iMac or something, you were buying, uh, you know, land, and building a building, and, you know, buying equipment, and hiring,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:48 Ben Einstein GoPro, as you identified, is probably one of the most famous examples, probably behind Red Bull, um, which has taken, you know, the most commodity it gets, sugar and water, and turned it into, uh, you know, one of the power, you know, sort…
- ▶ 26:03 Ben Einstein So you have these above ground beds that are sort of apple like, um, you have, uh, you know, sensors and it automatically waters itself.
20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings At LinkedIn, where he built the teams responsible for core product, user experience, platform, and mobile, and Adam has also held a number of roles at the likes of eBay, Atlas Venture Preview Systems, and Apple.
- ▶ 8:39 Adam Nash Even go back to early days, um, as an engineer at Apple, or, you know, as a product manager at eBay, certainly at LinkedIn, I felt a lot of responsibility and pride in the work we were doing and the products we were building and the…
20VC: Dollar Shave Club's Series A & B Lead Investor, David Pakman on The Requirements For A Successful Subscription Business & Why A Lot of Investors Do Not Like Consumer
- ▶ 0:51 Harry Stebbings And if that wasn't enough, David is also the co-creator of Apple Computers Music Group.
- ▶ 2:09 David Pakman I went to work at Apple for about five years, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:08 David Pakman I think, uh, there are 53 people from Apple, 70 total people now, uh, that, that built and managed and, uh, delivered iPhones, iPads, Apple Watch, uh, and iPods, uh,
- ▶ 24:08 David Pakman I think, uh, there are 53 people from Apple, 70 total people now, uh, that, that built and managed and, uh, delivered iPhones, iPads, Apple Watch, uh, and iPods, uh,
20VC: Why Every Employee Should Re-Apply For Their Job Every Year & The Strategies To Prepare For A Successful Fundraise with Kyle Hill, Founder & CEO @ HomeHero
20VC: USV's Albert Wenger on Automation Replacing Humans, The Universal Basic Income and The Instalment & The Deployment Phase
- ▶ 21:49 Albert Wenger That's also the primary reason why my, my primary phone is, is not an Apple phone, um, because, um, I think that the idea that I could have a supercomputer in my pocket that's connected to the entire world through the internet, and in…
20VC: The 4 Required Powers For A Startup To Be A $500m Business with "The Most Powerful Woman in Startups", Ann Miura Ko, Co-Founder @ Floodgate
- ▶ 17:13 Ann Miura-Ko So, you know, when, uh, Apple came out with the iPhone initially, they had this incredibly strong glass, and they had just bought up the entire supply of that.
20VC: Why Great VCs Know The Opportunity In Hardware, Physical Stores Will Not Disappear and The Importance of Consumer Brand with Josh Udashkin @ Raden
- ▶ 24:43 Josh Udashkin Uh, Apple, you know, really, really beautiful design, incredible retailing concept, uh,
20VC: Felicis' Wesley Chan on The Rise of IoT, Getting Recruited by Larry Page & Creating Google's Biggest Success Disaster
- ▶ 10:28 Wesley Chan In Silicon Valley, we, you know, he went to, you know, Steve stole him, and sort of, Steve Jobs stole him in Apple, and he sort of just revolutionized and created that whole music business for Apple, and so when he sort of was, he had left… 3 times in the scene
20VC: Andy Rachleff, Founder @ Benchmark & Wealthfront on What Makes The Best CEO & Board Member & Why Ivy League Endowments Are The Best Managed Capital In The World
- ▶ 13:28 Andy Rachleff If you think about Apple layering on top of the iPod on top of computers, and then the iPhone, and then the iPad, Adobe,
20VC: The Future For Autonomous Vehicles & How Software Is Eating Cars with Nikhil Basu Trivedi, Investor @ Shasta Ventures
- ▶ 15:04 Harry Stebbings And speaking of Asia, I have to ask, uh, we mentioned Uber, uh, Apple obviously invested a billion in Didi Chung, I think I pronounced it correctly, um, you never know, I'm sure I'll get corrected on Twitter, um, but, but what do you make… 6 times in the scene
20VC: How Startups Should React To Today's Funding Environment & Why Big Markets Are More Forgiving with Jenny Lefcourt, Partner @ Freestyle.vc
- ▶ 27:42 Jenny Lefcourt And then that combined with top, uh, tech talent, tech talent that came out of, uh, actually a company that then got bought by Apple.
20VC: Accel's Brian O'Malley On The Prioritisation Of Growth, The Metrics That Show True Customer Retention & Why The Most Interesting Companies Create A Market
- ▶ 31:27 Brian O'Malley They hired, uh, this guy who ran supply chain at Sonos and was at Apple before that.
20VC: From Netscape To Friendster To Nuzzel: Jonathan Abrams on A Silicon Valley Adventure
- ▶ 8:25 Jonathan Abrams Now there's Apple news from Apple, for example. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:25 Jonathan Abrams Now there's Apple news from Apple, for example.
20VC: Felicis' Aydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis From $4m to $120m, Doing Venture Differently and Why Being A VC Is Like A Jamaican Bobsled Team!
- ▶ 14:22 Aydin Senkut I mean, look at Google, look at Facebook, look at Microsoft, uh, in the nineties, look at Apple in 2000, look at Google and Facebook beyond 2005.
20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing
- ▶ 26:05 Matt Mazzeo And so, if you get featured, where getting featured in Apple was likely the first time you had more than a thousand or 2000 users on your app.
20VC: Niccolo De Masi on The Bursting Of The Tech Bubble and What It Takes To Be A Celebrity Partner with Glu Mobile
- ▶ 19:59 Niccolo De Masi Um, you know, there's only two and a half, 2.6 billion smartphones in the world, but the seven billion people, and we address phones and tablets and Apple TV and even the Mac store.
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 11:46 Christian Hernandez That was fairly standardized and actually scale it out on a global basis versus having to code Java versions for literally dozens, if not hundreds of different types of devices and the high cost, plus a distribution platform through the…
20 VC: Niccolo De Masi @ Glu Mobile on Private Market Valuations, Being A Public Market CEO & The Trends Of Mobile Gaming
- ▶ 10:01 Niccolo De Masi So if you look at companies like Microsoft and Apple that IPO, you know, in the eighties, they were done at an early stage and it was well recognized that they were, uh, you know, I wouldn't say risky bets, but they were growth stage…
20 VC FF 032: Jeff Seibert on Lessons From Being Acquired By Twitter & Box and Now Leading Twitter's Consumer Product
- ▶ 25:45 Jeff Seibert I'm an, I'm an Apple fanatic through and through.
- ▶ 27:49 Harry Stebbings It was absolutely amazing to hear your story, and I'm just so proud to have had you as a guest on the show, and for anyone who hasn't heard your speech at Stanford, check it out on the iTunes podcast app.
20 VC: David Tisch @ Box Group on The Future of Consumer Mobile, Developing Pattern Recognition and FOMO
- ▶ 5:20 David Tisch But you don't have your Apple, Facebook, Google that was started here that is this worldwide, uh, phenomenon that hundreds of people are, you know, applying to work at after college every year.