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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Apple comes up
20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel
- ▶ 6:45 Jake Flomenberg Um, with the, you know, with the amount of work that Google and Baidu and Facebook and now Apple and others pouring into algorithm development, and quite frankly, also open sourcing so much of that work, it's very, very hard for me to…
- ▶ 15:14 Harry Stebbings I'm intrigued with the environment today with GAFA, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple.
20VC: Why Strategic Investing Is Slow Motion M&A, Why Valuation Is The Hardest Element of M&A & What Determines Between Cash vs Stock Deals with Chad Richard, SVP of Business & Corporate Development @ Yelp
- ▶ 0:47 Harry Stebbings And prior to Yelp, Chad spent six years at Apple as Senior Director of Worldwide Product Marketing, focused on Apple's operating systems and internet services. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:59 Harry Stebbings You've worked in M&A work with Apple before. 7 times in the scene
20VC: a16z's Alex Rampell on The Struggle Between Innovation vs Distribution, When How To Determine Whether An Application is Optimised Through Centralised or Decentralised Networks & Why Most ICOs Today Are Ridiculous
- ▶ 11:34 Alex Rampell One is made by Apple, who's rather mercurial, and one is made by Google, which is somewhat of an enemy.
20VC: YC's Ali Rowghani on Leadership Lessons From Steve Jobs, Ed Catmull and Jack Dorsey & The 3 Traits All Truly Successful Leaders Share
- ▶ 8:08 Ali Rowghani Steve was also the CEO of Apple. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Lightspeed's Nicole Quinn on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, Why M&A Has Not Been This Exciting For A Long Time & Why Amazon Is Never Your Friend
- ▶ 0:49 Harry Stebbings Plus, a very fun fact, Nicole's also a star of the big screen, featuring on Apple TV's Planet of the Apps.
20VC: Semil Shah on How To Raise An Institutional Venture Fund, Why LPs Mostly Have Reserve Allocation Theory Wrong & Why IPOs and Acquisitions Are Severely Constrained
- ▶ 12:57 Semil Shah Literally like in a folder on my, on my eye photos, I would just show them.
20VC: Index's Mike Volpi on Making The Move From Player To Coach, What It Takes To Build Generation Defining Brands & How Europe Really Stacks Up To The US Venture Market
- ▶ 17:51 Mike Volpi Obviously, we are enjoying right now one of the more vibrant times in terms of M&A activity and consolidation in the market, and there certainly are a number of very strong big tech companies that are out there, whether it's, you know,…
20VC: How To Run The Perfect Fundraising Process, Why Time Kills All Deals & Why You Have To Get VCs Out Of The Board Room with Wayne Chang, Serial Entrepreneur & Angel Investor
- ▶ 2:56 Wayne Chang It was basically like space invaders on the Apple IIe.
20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Daniel heads up all things YCAI, having been a director at Apple, where he focused on machine learning as a result of his prior company, Q, also a YC company, being acquired by Apple in 2013. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:06 Daniel Gross We had quite a bit of money in the bank, but we either had to become an enterprise product to really satisfy our unit economics or take the opportunity that we had and work on a consumer version of our product at Apple. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:16 Daniel Gross And many different verticals inside Google and Apple and Facebook for incremental improvements, but nothing really breakthrough.
- ▶ 22:04 Daniel Gross An Oracle or a MySQL, that is to say, a company that empowers all the verticals, because I think the incumbents today, Google and Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, to some extent, are far less naive than the incumbents in Oracle's time, and so…
20VC: The Blurring of Early & Late Stage, Why Your Go To Market Strategy Is More Important Now Than Ever & Why Venture Is The Academia Of Tech with Roseanne Wincek @ IVP
- ▶ 19:01 Roseanne Wincek Facebook really capitalized on that opportunity and created this mobile app install ecosystem due to deficiencies and, and what Apple sent out to the market.
20VC: Why Radical Candor Is Crucial in Workplaces, Why 85% of Work Relationship Mistakes Happen and Why You Should Not Try and Be More Likeable with Kim Scott, Co-Founder @ Candor Inc
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings She's also been a member of the faculty at Apple University, developing the course Managing at Apple, and before that, she spent five years at Google on AdSense, YouTube, and DoubleClick online sales and operations.
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings She's also been a member of the faculty at Apple University, developing the course Managing at Apple, and before that, she spent five years at Google on AdSense, YouTube, and DoubleClick online sales and operations.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins GP, Eric Feng on How The Best Funds Use Tech and Data To Find Companies, Why Entrepreneurs Start The Fire and VCs Add The Rocket Fuel & Why Consumer Is Harder Than Ever Today
20VC: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on Why We Are In A Fallow Period For Consumer, Why It Is Bogus That Operational VCs Can Add More Value & 2 Golden Rules To Always Tell Entrepreneurs Pre-Investment
- ▶ 16:22 Jeremy Levine And today, virtually all consumer distribution is controlled by only three companies, Facebook, Apple, and Google. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Benchmark's Peter Fenton on How To Differentiate Between Good & Great VCs, Why Ownership Is A Bigger Determinant Of Returns Than Valuation & What Makes A Truly Exceptional Board Member
- ▶ 9:27 Peter Fenton You know, I guess there are other questions around, like, what is it on your iPhone that is a single app out of the Apple network that might be blown open and become a global network?
20VC: Kevin Rose on Putting The Entire Fund Into Uber, The Future For Mobile & Whether Angels Should Have Super Pro-Rata Rights?
- ▶ 17:25 Kevin Rose So now if you go into the app store and Apple and type in fasting, we're kind of the number one app there.
- ▶ 26:32 Kevin Rose And it is a probe that goes underneath the surface of your skin and then reports back to your iPhone and Apple watch, and it will tell you your glucose levels in real time.
20VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant on The Secrets To Success At Seed, Why Micro VC Is The Return of Traditional Series A & Why We Will See The Unbundling Of Traditional VC Brands
- ▶ 13:07 Naval Ravikant I'm going to pay your commission to sell Apple products. 2 times in the scene
20VC: How To Create FOMO For Investors, How To Manage VC Conversations & A Repeatable Process For Learning New Things with Anna Shedletsky, Founder & CEO @ Instrumental.ai
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings As for Anna, prior to Instrumentl, Anna was a product design lead and manager for the Apple Watch, and before that, a product design engineer for the Apple iPod.
- ▶ 2:25 Harry Stebbings Now, I'd love to get started with a bit about you and how a rock star at Apple, this is Finn's words, by the way, made the way to startup founder, and what the aha moment was for you with Instrumentl. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:48 Anna Shedletsky And then I led system product design for the Apple watch program. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:17 Anna Shedletsky At a strategic level, Apple introduced me to the space that Instrumental works in. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:48 unnamed speaker Apple.
- ▶ 18:44 Harry Stebbings Coming from an engineering background and Apple where you obviously weren't so inserted into the VC community like, like VCs or startup founders might traditionally be.
20VC: Sequoia Partner, Pat Grady on Why Data Is The New Oil, Why We Will See The Return of The Apprenticeship Model in VC & The Defining Characteristics of The Next Generation of Great Software
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings They've made investments in the likes of Google, Apple, WhatsApp, Stripe, PayPal, the list really is endless.
- ▶ 13:01 Pat Grady Then it follows that it is the big companies, the Googles and Apples and Amazons and Facebooks who have the vast reserves of data and the talent and resources to refine it into intelligence that are best positioned to build the next… 4 times in the scene
20VC: Betaworks' John Borthwick on Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient, Why Venture Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Frontier Tech Could Only Have Been Disappointing Over The Last Year
- ▶ 19:48 John Borthwick There's a bunch of things, but Apple has done in particular an incredible job of driving this distribution funnel into the market.
20VC: Benchmark's Scott Belsky on What Makes Truly The Best VCs? Why Entrepreneurs Must Focus on 'The First Mile' & The Key Ingredients To The Perfect Onboarding Process
- ▶ 25:11 Scott Belsky Siegler for Apple stuff, and you know, other people that have been following various parts of the industry for a long time.
20VC: Why We Are Valuation & Ownership Insensitive, Why We Do Not Take Board Seats & The Effects Of The Series A Crunch with Topher Conway, Co-Managing Partner @ SV Angel
- ▶ 14:11 Topher Conway And so, you know, helping on those, on those points really helps build that relationship with, with the founders.
20VC: The Fundamentals To Creating A Successful Venture Partnership & The Optimal Investment Decision Making Process with Ryan McIntyre, Co-Founder @ Foundry Group
- ▶ 23:20 Ryan McIntyre But we kept seeing them, and, you know, saw more and more buzz around it, and then, you know, they just launched their newest product, Rolly did, just this week, rather just last week, actually, in London, at one of the Apple stores in…
20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp
- ▶ 15:40 Ted Blosser And I remember even when we went public, he put posters around the office, uh, talking about companies that were built for the longterm, like Apple and IBM and Microsoft.
20VC: Biggest Takeaways From Working With Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, Why You Should Put Off Hiring For As Long As Possible & Why Seed Stage Investing Is All About Optimising The Top Of The Funnel with Harj Taggar, Founder & CEO @ Triplebyte
- ▶ 23:08 unnamed speaker Um, I, I just think, I mean, Apple remains an incredibly unique
20VC: Why We Will See A Big Series B Crunch? Why Proprietary Data Pools & AI Talent Will Be The New Limited Natural Resources? Why Now Is The Closest Thing To A New Normal with Tim Chang, Managing Director @ Mayfield Fund
20VC: Building An AI Company For The Long Term? How Humans & Machine Learning Can Work Together? What Applications Are The Conversational Interface Best Suited To with Maran Nelson, Founder & CEO @ Clara Labs
- ▶ 16:47 Maren Nelson They added something recently to the bottom of the screen such that you can kind of report the error, though you don't have much of an incentive as a, as a single user to spend additional time to report Siri's error to the Apple team.
20VC: DFJ's Josh Stein on Why VCs Must Adapt To Their Founders, The Major Transition Points For Aaron Levie @ Box & Why SaaS Startups Are Growing At A Rate Never Seen Before
- ▶ 21:21 Josh Stein I just read Insanely Simple by Ken Siegel about Apple, and I think I'm a big believer in focus, and that validated for me why it's important.