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Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:01 Tomer Cohen You'll start seeing that from companies and Apple and Microsoft and so on.
- ▶ 36:27 Scott Belsky You know, totally different go to market in some cases, different relationships with Apple app stores, and like, you know, there were so many differences. 2 times in the scene
Sanjit Biswas: Samsara's $18BN Market Cap & $1BN in ARR in 8 Years | E1092 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:20 Sanjit Biswas Think about how much capital has been reinvested into an Apple or an Amazon or any of these huge companies.
Geoff Charles: How To Hire Product Teams & Increase Product Velocity | E1091 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:32 Geoff Charles Maybe surprising for me to say, but I think Apple continues to crush it. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:55 Geoff Charles I mean, when you think about like the iOS ecosystem and the monetization on, on applications, when you think about Apple pay and the Apple card and the Apple wallet,
- ▶ 58:55 Geoff Charles I mean, when you think about like the iOS ecosystem and the monetization on, on applications, when you think about Apple pay and the Apple card and the Apple wallet,
- ▶ 58:55 Geoff Charles I mean, when you think about like the iOS ecosystem and the monetization on, on applications, when you think about Apple pay and the Apple card and the Apple wallet,
Tooey Courtemanche: From Construction Worker to Billionaire CEO | E1090 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:23:40 Tooey Courtemanche So, uh, actually my son Henry, who's kind of likes watches, he's the one who, uh, he's the one who turned me on to this, but, uh, it's not a fancy, fancy watch, but it's, uh, it's, it's, it's more than the, you know, Apple watch that I…
Guillaume Cabane: Why Your First Growth Hire Should Be a Former Founder | E1088 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11 Guillaume Cabane I started in the early 2000 at Apple. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:08 Guillaume Cabane The places, like obviously I started my career at Apple. 3 times in the scene
Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:21 Mike Shebat Just like how I mentioned to you, we plan on having a global impact, building a once in a generation company, and when you go back and you look at any of those once in a generation companies, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, it was a group of…
- ▶ 6:45 Keith Rabois He's not entitled, he sweats the inputs, and he's built a very intentional culture with his co-founder that really does replicate the best of, let's say, PayPal, or Apple, or Amazon were actually built.
- ▶ 28:24 Keith Rabois Um, although that said, you know, both Amazon and Apple were able to scale to
- ▶ 52:12 Keith Rabois Apple, which is the most valuable tech company in the planet, is completely non-transparent in every possible way. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:01 Mike Shebat You look at Amazon, Apple, Tesla, they're all public, um, so we'll be a publicly traded company.
The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01 Emad Mostaque I think it's going to be us, Nvidia, Google, Microsoft OpenAI, and Meta and Apple probably are the ones that train these models.
- ▶ 22:06 Harry Stebbings Now, I want to start with Apple, and Des, I know you have some strong thoughts here. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:41 Des Traynor And you have to assume it's all going to work with your AirPods, your watch, and your phone, and all that sort of stuff.
- ▶ 23:24 Emad Mostaque Neural engine. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:52 Jeff Seibert And again, I mean, going back to Apple, it reminds me of the iPod Nano. 2 times in the scene
Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:12 Jeff Seibert What very few people I think are paying attention to is Apple, because again, they control the silicon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:08 Harry Stebbings There are many examples, whether it's, you know, your, your, your kind of Linux to your, you know, Apple and Android. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:19 Jeff Seibert And look at Apple Silicon, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:23 Jeff Seibert Like, yes, they're fast, but instead of pushing the bounds on pure compute, they're pushing the bounds on energy efficiency, which for Apple's use case is critical.
- ▶ 28:05 Jeff Seibert Back in 2002, Apple killed Watson with its Sherlock tool.
- ▶ 28:59 Jeff Seibert And what very few people I think are paying attention to is Apple, because again, they control the silicon. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:38 Harry Stebbings You mentioned Apple's strong stance. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:58 Harry Stebbings Can I ask which incumbent do you think is vulnerable from the top incumbents in terms of like, you know, your Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, uh, of the world? 3 times in the scene
Matteo Franceschetti: The Ultimate Hiring Playbook: Five Questions to Ask Every New Hire | E1084 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:26 Matteo Franceschetti But I think if you find the right company and the right team, no, because I mean, look at Tesla and Apple, they are hardware companies.
- ▶ 15:48 Matteo Franceschetti When you're Apple, or when you're a billion of dollars in revenue, yeah, maybe you need to find ways to expand your time.
- ▶ 45:28 Matteo Franceschetti Even if you're big, if you're growing well, you know, you're not Apple, right?
- ▶ 46:40 Harry Stebbings What are those mistakes that you would tell me as a young startup founder listening who sees shiny logos from Apple and Tesla and SpaceX and goes, wow, that's great.
- ▶ 1:36:30 Matteo Franceschetti I use Apple, Apple Watch. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:45:27 Matteo Franceschetti I mean, what is the standard market practice of, like, an Apple Watch, or like a...
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:50 Harry Stebbings I actually had someone on the show the other day, and they said, actually, the winner will be Apple. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:43 Des Traynor And you have to assume it's all going to work with your AirPods, your watch, and your phone, and all that sort of stuff.
- ▶ 47:10 Harry Stebbings Well, it also opens up in my mind, like paid search, because if you are a provider, you could pay Apple to say, Hey, if you're Spotify, you could pay Apple to say, Hey, when someone says play Jay-Z, 4 times in the scene
Danny Cohen: From Leading the BBC to Leading Venture Capitalist |E1079 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:55 Harry Stebbings You mentioned obviously Cyrus Newk and David Hockney there, you know, we saw, um, Lionel Messi agree in his MLS deal actually to have a revenue share with Apple TV.
Roundtable #5 with Jack Altman, Auren Hoffman, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings | E1077 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:49 Jack Altman So it's hard to map to Amazon and Apple and Stripe and some of those where I think like
Matthieu Rouif: The Story of PhotoRoom, Is This YC’s Most Capital Efficient Company? | E1074 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00 Matthieu Rouif And while we were doing an iPhone app quick for video editing, we're being featured by Apple.
- ▶ 11:34 Matthieu Rouif Like, so Apple and Google, like, the App Store and mobile, they're giving you distribution.
Matthew Prince: The Two Biggest Mistakes Every Founder Makes | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:12 Matthew Prince They, he's just, you know, it's easy to poke at the, at the, at Apple as, as the most successful company, you know, in the world right now. 2 times in the scene
Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:01 Scott Farquhar And then mobile came around and didn't really displace anyone, but Apple suddenly came back into the floor and Microsoft continued to sort of miss that, that, uh, that area.
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:38 Guillermo Rauch Like I was at Apple for 25 years.
- ▶ 21:42 Guillermo Rauch Apple, Google, Amazon, uh, Netflix.
- ▶ 31:16 Guillermo Rauch Like this is something that Apple does remarkably well because they don't react to every trend that emerges. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:41 Harry Stebbings Well, we had Apple, BlackBerry, which was an accidental pager that worked, and Nokia, which was a failed division of a Swedish, you know, Scandinavian company
Christian Lanng: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me" | E1065 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:15 Christian Lanng And I think, by the way, everybody will be making a mix, make a big mistake if they count Apple out of the AI race. 2 times in the scene
Marc Benioff: The Future of San Francisco and What He Would Do if in Charge | E1064 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:22 Marc Benioff And we were writing software on Atari 800, and Commodore 64, and Apple II, and it was an amazing time because nobody knew what we were doing.
20VC: The Biggest AI Leaders on What Matters More; Model Size or Data Size & Where Does The Value in AI Accrue; to Startups or to Incumbents
- ▶ 27:46 Emad Mostaque I think it's going to be us, NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft OpenAI, and Demeter and Apple, probably, are the ones that train these models.
Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:24 Suchit Dash I think the targeting capabilities after what Apple has done has gotten reduced dramatically, so I think it would be much tougher, but
David Velez: How AI Changes The Future of Finance | E1059 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:30 David Vélez I would not ask him, look at Apple today, is this what you would have built?
Brian Balfour: Startup Growth Secrets from HubSpot; Distribution Stratagies; Impact of AI | E1049 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:41 Brian Balfour Uh, and what I mean by that is Google, Facebook, Apple, you know, whoever owns all these huge distribution platforms, they do not give an F
DEBATE: State of Seed Investing w/ Jason Lemkin, Sam Lessin, Frank Rotman & Harry Stebbings | E1047 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:40 Sam Lessin And so like, the reason you didn't buy more Apple stock at a trillion because like, or at eight hundred billion, because no one's seen a trillion dollar company, right? 2 times in the scene
Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:16 Vinod Khosla These were public transit bids, including the one connecting the San Jose airport to the new Google campus to the Apple campus.
Ilir Sela: How I Founded Slice Pizza & Became One of Macedonia’s Largest Employers | E1044 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:23 Marcelo Claure And I had an idea of how could Apple actually double their sales. 2 times in the scene
Jean-Denis Greze: CTO of Plaid, the $18B Fintech Startup; How to Hire, Fire & Build Great UX | E1038 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:28 Harry Stebbings And my question is, do enabling technologies like Apple vision and AI allow us new dimensions of UX?
Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:51 Dave Clark Uh, I, I had an Apple watch for a while I was trying to wear cause I was trying to do sleep tracking and stuff.
Sheel Mohnot: How I Got Married in the Metaverse; Founder vs Product vs Market | E1035 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:05 Harry Stebbings But same with Apple and AI. 2 times in the scene
Douwe Kiela: Why Data Size Matters More Than Model Size; Why Open Source Isn't Going to Win | E1032 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:34 Harry Stebbings Is it Apple?
- ▶ 46:04 Douwe Kiela So I, I'm still very curious to see what Apple will do. 3 times in the scene
Alex Lebrun: Why the EU's AI Regulation is a Disaster; How Zuck Prepares for Meetings | E1027 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:10 Harry Stebbings Is it actually Apple?
Noah Weiss: How to Master Product-Led Growth; Scaling PLG to Enterprise at Google & Slack | E1026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:49 Noah Weiss Talking to friends, for example, at Apple, I think as soon as it was physically safe, they need to be in the physical environment to actually touch the thing.
Rich Liu: Sales in 2023; How to Onboard, Manage and Scale Reps; PLG vs Enterprise Growth | E1023 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
TJ Parker: Building PillPack, The First E-Commerce Pharmacy, to Amazon's $1B Acquisition | E1022 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
David Allemann: How I founded On Running; Working with Roger Federer; Brand Marketing Tips | E1021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:46 David Allemann If I would ask my friends at all and my team around me that, uh, they would say, Hey, David loves Apple. 6 times in the scene
Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:01 Tomer Cohen You know, Apple still has the spirit of Steve Jobs, but obviously he's no longer there.
Guy Podjarney: $7.4B Startup Founder; How to Analyse Market Size; Good vs Great Messaging | E1018 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:03 Guy Podjarny You know, um, Apple has the whole rock star versus superstar approach, right?
Nico Wittenborn: Consumer Subscription Apps; Using Evolutionary Biology to Invest; Solo GP's | E1017 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:29 Nico Wittenborn In the first step towards, um, investing, which was I imported iPhones from the UK, unlocked them, refurbished them, resold them, which then really opened my eyes to entrepreneurship, one, and two, some of the money I made to invest in…
- ▶ 1:22:13 Nico Wittenborn He was one of the first to do accessories for Apple devices and this company backbone that I'm working with there on the west coast and, um, it's a gaming device for your phone.
Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:22 Harry Stebbings That's with IBM, that's with SAP, that's with Apple.
- ▶ 45:59 unnamed speaker Uh, Google, Microsoft OpenAI, and, um, Meta and Apple probably are the ones that train these models.
- ▶ 1:00:00 Emad Mostaque No, I think it's, it was against Apple policy, right?
- ▶ 1:03:36 Harry Stebbings When you look at the incumbents at your Microsoft, your Apple, your Amazon, your Google, uh, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:59 Emad Mostaque Um, but they have all the ingredients in place, the identity architecture, the secure enclave, other things, neural engine, uh, stable diffusion was the first model ever optimized on the neural engine, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Snap's VP of Product Jack Brody: The Future of AR; Snap Glasses; Evan Spiegel's Product Mind | E1006 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:11 Harry Stebbings When I think about product innovation, I think about a snap and apple together in the same
Tomasz Tunguz: How I Raised $230M; ChatGPT vs. Google; How LLMs Work; Trump vs DeSantis | E1004 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:37 Tomasz Tunguz I think the analogy of Apple and Linux is really useful here, or Apple and Windows, where you'll have a, one system that is basically fully integrated and closed, and then you'll have another world where people are, are building little, I…
- ▶ 45:08 Harry Stebbings Is it Apple?
- ▶ 52:02 Tomasz Tunguz I mean, you look at, I, I wonder if you can look at like the Amazon, sorry, the Mozilla Google deal or the Google Apple deal or some of the publisher contracts or, um, even like distribution agreements across media companies today.
Mike Salguero: How I Grew ButcherBox to $600M/year in Revenue; Tips for Influencer Marketing | E998 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:26 Mike Salguero I mean, it's a really tough time to be running DTC right now between Apple's changes, making iOS changes where Facebook performance like really went down quite a bit.
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke: Remote Work vs In-Person; The Benefit of Setting Constraints | E997 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:32 Tobi Lütke Steve and Johnny, um, engaged with, like, with Apple.
Jackie Reses: The Most Powerful Woman in Finance; Making $50BN for Yahoo on Alibaba | E996 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:03 Jackie Reses I think, uh, that is a, that is a really tough business model to try to gain users, particularly after Apple changed their ad models.
Dara Khosrowshahi: How I Became CEO of Uber; Uber Eats vs DoorDash; The Postmates Acquisition | E994 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:49 Dara Khosrowshahi I have developed a healthy respect for companies like Apple or even the, you know, Tesla.
Adam Grenier: The Inside Story to Uber’s Hypergrowth; How We Spent $1B/mo in China | E989 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:49 Adam Grenier So one, uh, Apple really kind of cut Facebook's knees off and made, you know, hyper targeting ads really difficult suddenly.
- ▶ 53:14 Adam Grenier Hey, drive everything to Apple. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:06 Adam Grenier Just reminds me a lot of Apple with the App Store early on, and I think we're starting to see some versions of that with the AI companies hitting the market right now as well, and that's a, you know, that, that, that to me is the closest…
Amjad Masad: How I Founded Replit; Zuck's Famous Saying; Will TikTok be banned? | E987 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:27 Amjad Masad I would love to think you can, like, you know, I think there, there's like a, there's a way of, of, of, of doing that, but, you know, the history of companies show, like, you know, Wozniak, you know, was sort of like marginalized as, as…
- ▶ 25:51 Amjad Masad He was working on the Apple II, even, even when the Mac was the, was the thing, like, um, and he continued to contribute and, and, and things like that.
Glen Coates: Why Shopify Will Dominate Amazon; How Microsoft Made Smartest Move of 2023 | E986 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:40 Glen Coates And this is like, you know, when Apple makes a decision like, hey, we're going to change ITP and ATT, it's like, you change one little thing, but because it's so close to the bottom of the stack, it literally reshapes
- ▶ 21:18 Glen Coates The third party apps are as good quality as the first party apps because they're all built on the same toolkit and Apple made the tools available such that third party apps could be as good as the first party apps in the most.
- ▶ 29:03 Glen Coates And look at Apple, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:04 Glen Coates Like Apple is like the Mac, the iPhone, the iPad, the watch, the everything.
Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger: The Founders of Instagram Reveal their New Project "Artifact" | E981 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:26 Kevin Systrom Like, if they had just said, we make desktop computers, imagine how limiting that would be. 2 times in the scene
Aloe Blacc: The Secret to Songwriting & Storytelling; Working w/ Avicii on “Wake Me Up” | 20VC #979 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:51 Harry Stebbings And I want them to point to companies that are amazing and me to say, hey, we invested in, you know, Steve and Steve from Apple when it was just them in their garage, and we played a tiny role in that, and them go, wow, what are you…
Ariel Cohen: The Death of Salesforce; How OpenAI is Changing the Travel Industry | 20VC #975 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:21 Harry Stebbings You should give every employee a hoodie with a QR code that they should wear to Apple so you can download it, so when you're walking past lines, you're like, hey, download it here.
20Product: When to Hire a CPO, The Three Different Types of CPO, How To Know What You Need, How To Structure the Hiring Process, What Are the Must-Ask Questions, What Tests and Case Studies Should Be Used, How Should Their Compensation Package Be Structur
- ▶ 31:00 Marty Cagan Look at Apple.
The Ultimate Guide for Building a Two-Sided Marketplace | a16z's Jeff Jordan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:35 Jeff Jordan You know, the Apple changes with the input, impact on Facebook, TikTok, and Pinterest, you know, and Snap coming as, as potential new channels.
a16z GP Jeff Jordan: The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces | 20VC #966 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:29 Jeff Jordan You know, it's, it's been pretty volatile to say the least, you know, the, the Apple changes with the input cut.