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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Apple comes up
20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst
- ▶ 6:52 Quentin Clark We lost the Windows franchise to Apple.
20VC: Why the Theory of Pro-Rata is Often False, How Rolling Funds Impact Both Pricing and Competition & The Biggest Lessons from Working with Jack Dorsey with Avlok Kohli, CEO @ AngelList Venture
- ▶ 31:26 Avlok Kohli It's very similar to how Apple works.
20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on The Single Most Important Thing Leadership is Responsible For, How To Manage Fear and Self-Doubt as a Leader & The Future of Fintech; Bundled or Unbundled
- ▶ 16:14 Vlad Tenev He read the Apple human interface guidelines and would watch movies about Helvetica, you know, in his spare time.
20VC: Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on Leadership Styles, Decision-Making, The 3 Levels of Wealth, IPOs vs Direct Listings & Why Effective Entrepreneurship is Like Parkour
- ▶ 37:42 Stewart Butterfield So it is like, have I implemented Apple Pay?
20VC: Accel's Dan Levine on The Current State of Seed & Series A, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Solo Capitalists and Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed & Market, People and Product; What To Prioritise?
- ▶ 17:56 Daniel Levine The other thing I'd say about market timing is certainly Apple as a company epitomizes their products, but a lot of markets, it's hard to understand the abstraction around a market.
20VC: Unity Founder David Helgason on The Hypergrowth Early Days of Unity, Why Running A Company Is Like A Liberal Art, The Secret To A Successful CEO Transition and What Makes Roelof Botha Such A Special Board Member
- ▶ 25:29 David Helgason I just remember bringing the Apple webpage up kind of in the meeting, and everyone kind of stopped and looked kind of blankly at the screen.
20VC: Sequoia's Roelof Botha on His Biggest Lessons Working Alongside Don Valentine, Mike Moritz and Doug Leone, Leading Sequoia's US Business and What Sequoia Do To Retain Their Edge at the Top & The Crucible Moments That Define Startup Success
- ▶ 1:21 Harry Stebbings And if you've been listening to our show, you've probably heard of Brax, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three…
- ▶ 39:05 Harry Stebbings And if you've been listening to our show, you've probably heard of Brex, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three…
20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 1:26 Harry Stebbings And if you've been listening to our show, you've probably heard of Brax, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three…
- ▶ 51:04 Harry Stebbings And if you've been listening to our show, you've probably heard of Brax, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three…
20VC: CRV's George Zachary on His Relationship To Money and How it has Changed Over Time, Why The Best Founders Have Often Experienced Parental or Home Instability and The Stories Behind Investing in Unicorns; PillPack, Yammer and Udacity
- ▶ 1:23 Harry Stebbings And if you've been listening to our show, you've probably heard of Brax, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three…
- ▶ 45:44 Harry Stebbings And if you've been listening to our show, you've probably heard of Brax, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three…
20VC: Arlan Hamilton: "We Have Come For Cake, Not The Crumbs", Arlan's Plan To Return $1Bn in 10 Years, Why Arlan Plans To Giveaway or Invest 90% of Her Wealth & What The LP Class Can Do To Ensure More Under-Represented Managers Get Funded
- ▶ 1:27 Harry Stebbings And if you've been listening to our show, you've probably heard of Brax, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three…
- ▶ 34:57 Harry Stebbings Up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three X on eligible Apple products, and seven X points on tools like Zoom and Slack.
20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda
- ▶ 17:03 unnamed speaker Probably the most famous example is when the iPhone came out, there was no app store and development model, and so Apple built 2 times in the scene
20VC: Calm Founder Alex Tew on What It Takes To Build Viral Products Today, The Current State of Customer Acquisition Costs, What Makes The Best Brands
20VC: a16z's Angela Strange on Why Every Company Will Be A Fintech Company, How Founders Should Think About Niches and Optimal Insertion Points, How To Transition To Become The System of Record & Are We Entering A Period of Bundling Or Unbundling for Fint
- ▶ 10:23 Harry Stebbings Apple has Apple cards now.
- ▶ 10:23 Harry Stebbings Apple has Apple cards now.
20VC: Biggest Lessons from Working with John Doerr, How Founders Can Have Discussions of Vulnerability with Their Board and Investors & Marrying Another Founder; The Pros, Cons and Ways To Make it Succeed with Alyson Friedensohn, Co-Founder & CEO @ Modern
- ▶ 1:28 Harry Stebbings And speaking of amazing products, if you've been listening to 20 VC before, you've probably heard of Brex, the first corporate card for startups with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than…
- ▶ 34:25 Harry Stebbings Up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three X on eligible Apple products, so helpful for me with the rate I go through AirPods, and seven X points on tools like Zoom and Slack, and Brex has helped…
20VC: PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada on A Leader's Relationship To Risk, Insecurity, Making Decisions with Imperfect Data & What Successful Board Management Looks Like
- ▶ 1:22 Harry Stebbings Brex, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three X on eligible Apple products, so helpful for me with the rate I go…
- ▶ 42:51 Harry Stebbings Brex, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three X on eligible Apple products, so helpful for me with the rate I go…
20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- ▶ 1:25 Harry Stebbings And speaking of amazing products, if you've been listening to 20 VC before, you've probably heard of Brex, the first corporate card for startups with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than…
- ▶ 3:27 Sahil Lavingia The app store had just come out and that was sort of this amazing thing for me because I could just make stuff and Apple would worry about everything else, right?
- ▶ 43:17 Harry Stebbings And speaking of amazing products, if you've been listening to 20 VC before, you've probably heard of Brex, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than…
20VC: Why Few Firms Are Doing True Early Stage Investing Today, Why Founders Should Spend Time with Analysts When Raising & The Rise of Pre-Empting Rounds and How To Know When To Engage vs Wait with Anna Khan, General Partner @ CRV
- ▶ 1:23 Harry Stebbings And speaking of amazing products, if you've been listening to TwentyVC before, you've probably heard of Brax, the first corporate card for startups with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than…
- ▶ 40:52 Harry Stebbings And speaking of amazing products, if you've been listening to 20 VC before, you've probably heard of Brex, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than…
20VC: Loom Founder Joe Thomas on Whether To Take Multi-Stage Money at Seed, How Early Stage Founders Should Select Their VC, How Sequoia Won The Loom Deal & The 3 Rules To Operate Remote Teams Successfully
- ▶ 1:24 Harry Stebbings And speaking of amazing products, if you've been listening to TwentyVC before, you've probably heard of Brax, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than…
- ▶ 42:31 Harry Stebbings Brex, the first corporate card for startups, with no personal guarantee or credit check, up to 20 times higher credit limits than traditional cards, plus rewards like three X on eligible Apple products, so helpful for me with the rate I go…
20VC: Steve Jurvetson on 20 Years of Friendship with Elon Musk, How To Analyse Market Timing, Why Venture Does Not Scale & Why He Has Never Sold A Share in Any Company He Holds
- ▶ 3:53 Steve Jurvetson Worked in chip design, software, companies like Apple and Next and HP.
20VC: Why The Unbundling of Fintech Will Continue, How VCs Are Propping Up The Neo-Banking Industry & Why We Need A New Framework To Value Businesses Today with Clay Wilkes, Founder & CEO @ Galileo
- ▶ 9:24 Clay Wilkes Apple, Google, Amazon, they've got massive captive audiences and adding those financial services. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Future of Subscription Media, Why Startups Need To Stop Blaming Facebook and Google & How Founders Should Think Through Customer Acquisition Channel Dependencies with Alex Mather, Founder & CEO @ The Athletic
- ▶ 25:04 Alex Mather From the folks using their platform, and I think Apple has proven that model to be very, very lucrative if you can get scale, and you're taking a cut, but you need scale to build a venture scale business.
20VC: Andrew Wilkinson on Building The Berkshire Hathway of Tech, Sustainable vs Unsustainable Growth and The Relationship Between Money and Freedom
- ▶ 3:50 Andrew Wilkinson I really wanted to go work at Apple or Google and learn how a big company was run, but I didn't have a ton of money, and I decided that I would start freelancing to make some extra money, and one really great insight I had was that 3 times in the scene
20VC: Elad Gil on Startup Offense and Defence in a Recession, How The Venture Landscape Has Shifted & All Things Valuations, Secondaries and Layoffs
20VC: 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy: Deconstructing Economies of Scale, How To Assess True Market Size, Assessing Risk vs Uncertainty, What "Brand As Power" Really Means with Hamilton Helmer, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Offi
- ▶ 26:43 unnamed speaker And Apple can charge more as a result, even though they're probably, for all intents and purposes, objectively identical. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:09 Hamilton Helmer Apple is, they're a variety.
20VC: Sarah Kunst on Why There Is Plenty Of Investor Money Still Available, The Megan Markle Effect and How It Impacts Hiring and Talent & Whether GP Commits Prevent Diversity and Inclusion
- ▶ 2:34 Sarah Kunst I went to Michigan State in college, and I ended up working for Apple as a campus rep, and that was sort of my first
20VC: Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely, Raising $32M From Benchmark and GV Pre-Launch and How To Think Through Capital Efficiency and Runway Today with Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, Co-Founders @ Digits
- ▶ 18:11 Wayne Chang Ever since Apple introduced iOS back in 2013, it feels like the software world has moved more and more towards minimalist design.
- ▶ 27:28 Jeff Seibert My time I spent at Apple actually overlaps with the period he covers in the book, and the book is stunningly accurate in how it portrays how Apple designed and shipped products under Steve Jobs in the mid-two thousands. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Airtable's Howie Liu on Potential Consolidation In The Collaboration Tools Market, The Transition From Peacetime To Wartime CEO & How To Make The Move To Remote Work Successful; The Process Beyond The Tools
- ▶ 3:33 Howie Liu You know, Apple and Microsoft were kind of obviously the big companies when I was growing up in tech.
- ▶ 19:55 Howie Liu I think he does a great job of really tearing down a lot of the contemporary platforms from Apple to Shopify to Microsoft to even companies like Uber, Amazon, et cetera, that are maybe more like partly aggregators, partly platforms.
20VC: Basecamp Founder David Heinemeier Hansson on Why It Is The Biggest BS To Chase Being A Unicorn, His Relationship to Wealth and Status and Why Now More Than Ever It Is A Myth Entrepreneurs Have To Raise VC
- ▶ 45:09 David Heinemeier Hansson And then Apple all of a sudden had to release this emergency fix to, to remove the huge security vulnerability that came of that.
20VC: Why Venture Fund Life Cycles Do Not Align To Companies Today, Actionable Strategies To Separate Good From Great When Assessing and Hiring Multiple Candidates & Why We Need More Adventure in Venture Capital with Blake Scholl, Founder & CEO @ Boom Sup
- ▶ 12:05 Blake Scholl The culture at Apple is good at solving some kinds of problems.
20VC: Multi-Stage Funds Investing At Seed Are Option Value Investing, Why The Biggest Enemy For Venture Firms Is Group Think and How Running Companies Changes Your Investment Mentality with Manu Kumar, Founder @ K9 Ventures
- ▶ 22:00 Manu Kumar And that, that became the kernel for what started Carta, because it was like, why is it that we can buy stock in Apple and Google and never touch a piece of paper, but we invest in a two-person private company, and we end up holding a…
20VC: Twitch Founder & CEO Emmett Shear on When To Persist vs When To Give Up For Entrepreneurs, The Fundamental Tension When Scaling Orgs and How To Optimise Them & How The Role of CEO Fundamentally Changes with Scale
- ▶ 20:43 unnamed speaker And I haven't worked at Apple, but I've heard from Apple employees, the way you pitch for resources for a new Apple product. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Ashton Kutcher on Early Lessons From Investing in Airbnb and Spotify, Why VC Ownership Requirements Are Becoming More and More Egregious & What Being Good At Product Truly Means
- ▶ 18:46 Ashton Kutcher But for the most part, what's interesting is there was this appleification of UI and UX that took place for consumer products when Steve Jobs launched iOS that suddenly became this almost, it just unveiled an instinctual UI, UX and… 2 times in the scene
20VC: How Founders Should Think Through Distribution and Customer Acquisition Today, The Challenges of the Digital Advertising Duopoly Currently & How To Structure Company Post Mortems Effectively with Gabriel Weinberg, Founder & CEO @ DuckDuckGo
- ▶ 22:10 Gabriel Weinberg We kind of stole that concept from Apple, this directly responsible individual, but we have gone into it a hundred percent.
Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Transition as a Venture Firm & The Dangers of Attribution In Venture
- ▶ 30:47 Todd Jackson Work internally at Apple during the age of the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta
- ▶ 28:04 Sumit Gajri Yeah, honestly, the biggest and best companies ever, you know, generational businesses today, the Cisco's, Facebook's, Apple's, Amazon's of the world, they don't rely on those channels very much. 2 times in the scene