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Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:51 Harry Stebbings Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia. 5 times in the scene
Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:08 unnamed speaker The big picture comment is, 2025, the most down, and I checked, was the most downloaded app on Apple was, um, ChatGPT.
- ▶ 28:09 unnamed speaker I mean, as a reminder, the first trillion dollar market cap company was Apple in 2018 and now Broadcom, a company, 90% of people couldn't even name or tell what it does.
- ▶ 1:07:04 unnamed speaker I mean, Jobs did it with Apple, Pixar, and then Apple again, right? 2 times in the scene
SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:21:42 Harry Stebbings Microsoft and Apple do too.
20VC: Inside Bending Spoons Acquisition Machine: Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo | How Evernote Evaluates Acquisitions and New Product Ideas | How Evernote Mastered Product Launches, User Retention and Monetisation with Federico Simionato
- ▶ 23:37 Federico Simionato Apple Notes, Google Keep, and stuff like that, and so it doesn't look like it's a great arena to fight. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:23 Federico Simionato It was Apple Arcade, before Apple Arcade. 2 times in the scene
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:38 Harry Stebbings You think about like Apple as a, not even a comparable in market cap size, but what is that, like three billion customers?
20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber | How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million | Money Fixed My Problems—Then Made Me Miserable
- ▶ 6:53 Harry Stebbings It was Apple podcast top of the charts.
- ▶ 6:58 Tim Ferriss Or it would have been direct promotion by Apple or something like that, for instance.
- ▶ 1:05:08 Tim Ferriss And when I had those two on, led to a lot of promotion on Apple.
20Growth: How to Build a Paid Marketing Machine: ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) 101 | The Rise of User Generated Content and How to Use It | TikTok Ads: Expectations vs. Reality | Hiring for Growth: When and Who with Sandy Diao
- ▶ 4:59 Sandy Diao Here are some of the investors who've been put the first dollar into companies like Apple and Facebook.
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
- ▶ 58:36 Harry Stebbings On Apple, on the keyboard integration, it is terrible. 4 times in the scene
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:26:45 Harry Stebbings Tim Cook leaves Apple this year.
Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:53 Andrew Feldman Apple got into the chip business through buying PA Semi.
20Growth: How to Use Influencers to Scale Growth Insanely Fast | How to Optimise User Onboaring for Growth | How the Best Growth Teams Create Organic Growth and Community | Why LTV/CAC Models are BS with Ketty Slonimsky
- ▶ 24:38 Harry Stebbings I mean, the Apple cut is insane. 2 times in the scene
The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:23 unnamed speaker Look at the two other four trillion, three, four trillion dollar market cap companies, Apple and Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:39 Rory O'Driscoll But if this company were public and were worth half a trillion dollars, like, reminder, Apple was only worth eight hundred billion in 2018. 2 times in the scene
20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- ▶ 28:41 Alex Schultz I like to think we're, we're hopefully we're going to be the sort of Google or Apple or Microsoft of this generation of tech companies and not the Yahoo or eBay.
- ▶ 31:07 Alex Schultz It really does require changes in, in the UK, it would be planning and energy probably more than anything, and there are some privacy laws which the UK has this thing going on with Apple right now that's pretty, pretty public at this point… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:21 Alex Schultz If you look at Meta, and you look at our XK, and you look at Google's XK, and the other XKs, apart from Apple, whose marketing is paid for by the carriers, we have the lowest percentage of operating income that we spend on the stuff, the…
20Product: Why Most CPOs are Bad | Why You Do Not Need PMs in a World of AI | Why the Design Stage is Dead and How to Use Vibe Coding to Replace It | The Three Roles All Founders End Up Firing on Repeat with Jason James @ Tezi
- ▶ 46:16 Harry Stebbings I recently got it too, and the quality of transcription is second to none, and what's shocking is when you move, when you move from Whisperflow or ChatGPT's app itself to Siri or Apple products,
Anthropic's $10B Round, Klarna's IPO, Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine ft. Marc Benioff · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:34 unnamed speaker Apple has nothing there.
Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:34 unnamed speaker In 2000, as I say, Apple was
Lovable CEO, Anton Osika: The State of Foundation Models, Grok vs OpenAI, and Replit vs Bolt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:53 Anton Osika I think a super concrete example is the Apple ecosystem where they 2 times in the scene
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:26 Rory O'Driscoll And the, but the reason the DOJ is going on this is, you know, as well as owning Chrome, which was one of Sundar's crowning achievements that got him the big job, building Chrome, Google also pays Apple for search placement on Safari,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31:42 Harry Stebbings Will XAI sue Apple? 5 times in the scene
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:05 unnamed speaker Apple doesn't even have a product that works.
- ▶ 36:32 unnamed speaker Apple,
- ▶ 52:55 unnamed speaker Apple, I would argue near Microsoft, Facebook, Google in an old market search, iPhone, you know, social, though they'll resist that definition forever and whatever Microsoft is corporate, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:22 Harry Stebbings Rory, what do you do if you're Apple? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:59 unnamed speaker If Apple misfires on an open AI type AI product, they'll still be making hardware and it won't be existential.
How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk & Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:32 Rory O'Driscoll Hell, I don't know, but you look, there's a bunch of obvious players, um, you know, Apple being one of them, and there's other, but I think that the big wild card and the reason this kind of pontification is hard is the whole FTC process… 2 times in the scene
Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:37 unnamed speaker If I were Tim Cook and Apple, 2 times in the scene
20Product: How Duolingo Build Product 10x Faster with AI | Duolingo's Biggest Lessons on Paywalls, Push Notifications and In-App Purchases | Why Small Teams are the Future of Product | Why PMs Will Become Extinct with Cem Kansu, CPO @ Duolingo
Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:18 Harry Stebbings Will Apple announce iPhone assembly operations in the US this year? 3 times in the scene
Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:25 Larry Aschebrook And of course, Apple music, and I think that beats and, you know, uh, title and all these, you know, SoundCloud, all these competitors, but what they divulged to us in that one-on-one personal meeting after saying no to us for six straight… 2 times in the scene
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:58 Rory O'Driscoll I mean, the simpler point is probably some version of, you know, I think ChatGPT will be the Apple-level quality product, but there'll be a whole bunch of Android-type quality products that are out there that will just keep pricing honest,…
- ▶ 1:19:28 Jason Lemkin I don't wear a I watch or whatever you call them, right?
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:42 Harry Stebbings Now he's got a hardware play done by the guy who did fucking Apple.
20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- ▶ 1:04:50 Luke Harries The biggest villain I see doing this at the moment is Apple. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:59 Luke Harries And now you have Apple pushing that the reason you should upgrade to the newest iPhone or upgrade to the newest laptop is because of Apple intelligence. 2 times in the scene
Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:57 Harry Stebbings Apple.
20VC: Four Traits of the Most Successful Founders | How to Hunt and Close Talent Like a Pro and Where All Founders Go Wrong | Lessons Raising $397M From the Best Investors in the World with Eléonore Crespo @ Pigment
- ▶ 55:41 Harry Stebbings We have an Apple watch with an aura ring and a whoop on the other wrist.
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:30 unnamed speaker I mean, anything before Microsoft and Apple at this stage isn't here and Coca-Cola has been cranking for a hundred years, right?
20Growth: Inside Kraken's $1.5BN Growth Playbook: What Works, What Doesn't and What No Founders Understand About Growth That Will Change Their Company with Mayur Gupta
- ▶ 7:22 Mayur Gupta When Apple and, you know, they came up with their own subscription product, and we were really trying to figure out what's going to happen, what's going to change. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:53 Mayur Gupta And ASA, Google UAC, channels that again are more digital, 2 times in the scene
Dave CEO, Jason Wilk: The Best Performing Fund Would Only Back YC Founders on Their Second Time · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:03 Jason Wilk Apple. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Foundation Models: Who Wins & Who Loses | How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI | China vs the US in an AI Race: What You Need to Know | Rich Socher, Founder @ You.com
- ▶ 12:04 Richard Socher It gets used, and that's why, like, Google pays Apple twenty billion dollars a year to be that default, right?
- ▶ 18:18 Richard Socher In some consumer use cases, you would assume if Google really wanted to have it, Apple really wanted to have it, in theory, they, they could. 2 times in the scene
20Sales: How the Best Sales Teams Use AI to Win Enterprise Deals | Sales Teams Will Be Dramatically Smaller | How to Ramps Sales Reps Way Faster | Why Unpaid Design Partners are BS | Why this Generation of Sales is Soft with Ishan Mukherjee @ Rox
- ▶ 0:57 Harry Stebbings Prior to New Relic, he founded Pixie Labs, which New Relic acquired, and before that, he led product at Siri Knowledge Graph at Apple, Lattice Data, which was acquired by Apple, and Amazon Robotics. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:10 Ishan Mukherjee I've worked at Amazon and Apple, like he's that good.
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 3:48 Harry Stebbings Apple shares falling more than six percent.
Julia Hoggett, CEO @ LSEG plc: The Myths and the Reality of The London Stock Exchange · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15 Julia Hoggett And in the summer of 2020, Apple was worth more than the FTSE 100 for the first time.
Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:39 Andrew Feldman There's a reason that Apple and Nvidia are among the most valuable companies on Earth.
Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:53 Peter Singlehurst Uh, there's not really a direct comparable, but like a better version of Apple news and Doyen, which is like, uh, like TikTok in China.
Anton Osika, Co-Founder and CEO @ Lovable: Hitting 85% Day 30 Retention - Better than ChatGPT · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:24 Anton Osika You should say no to as many things as possible and make it more of like an apple feeling.
Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:01 Steeve Morin So of course it runs on, you know, it runs on AMD, it runs on, you know, even Apple and so on, but there was always, you know, the, the tens of little details that not exactly run like, you know, you would expect, and there's work…
- ▶ 40:33 Steeve Morin Apple just came and said, Hey, we're going to buy a 100,000 of them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:20 Steeve Morin So that's why, you know, I think it's, it's a good way to attack it from the software, because ultimately, do you really care about that your MacBook, let's say is an M two or an M three.
- ▶ 47:20 Steeve Morin So that's why, you know, I think it's, it's a good way to attack it from the software, because ultimately, do you really care about that your MacBook, let's say is an M two or an M three.
Jonathan Ross, Founder & CEO @ Groq: NVIDIA vs Groq - The Future of Training vs Inference | E1260 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:29 Jonathan Ross So the, the NVIDIA actually gets it after Apple.
Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:21 Solly Solomou And the kind of businesses that I classify up there, and coming back to where we want to be, which is a global entertainment powerhouse, you've got businesses like Disney, Nike, Red Bull, Apple, and these businesses have created something…
- ▶ 1:04:25 Harry Stebbings Waiting rooms and apples.
- ▶ 1:16:31 Solly Solomou I mean, Apple. 6 times in the scene
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:57 Fabien Pinckaers Because you are next to Google and Microsoft and Apple.
Max Levchin, Founder & CEO @ Affirm:The Biggest Surprise Scaling to $18.7BN Market Cap · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:31 Max Levchin So, you know, my Apple desktop, if I click in the top right corner and stocks drops down, I cannot see my stock ticker.
- ▶ 48:31 Max Levchin So, you know, my Apple desktop, if I click in the top right corner and stocks drops down, I cannot see my stock ticker.
Nabeel Hyatt, GP @ Spark Capital: To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | E1255 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:10 Nabeel Hyatt I don't want to call it just Apple Notes with AI in it, but it's a different behavior.
TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:14 Hussein Kanji But if you look at what everyone is doing today, you look at what Apple is doing, you look at what Amazon is now doing, and Matt has been working on this, they're all building chipsets to remove their dependence on NVIDIA.
Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:23 Eran Zinman The day after when I woke up, um, I opened my iPhone, opened the stocks app and added Monday.
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:31 Shervin Pishevar so I, I got to kind of see that, and then I saw, ah, the apple, um, and I begged for an apple, and my mom and dad worked, ah, you know, overtime for three months to afford it.
- ▶ 2:50 Shervin Pishevar and they bought me my first Apple IIc, uh, and I did my first code on it, uh, and that changed my life, um, and then later she secretly put on her credit card a laptop when I was at Berkeley, and I didn't have enough money to get, get a…
- ▶ 5:27 Shervin Pishevar Store, and what percentage they should charge, and then I shared that, you know, Apple charges 30%, you could probably charge 30%, which is what they ended up doing, and so we would meet once a quarter, um, and she was a great mentor, and…
- ▶ 48:18 Shervin Pishevar This is the greatest value destruction that's happened since, um, firing Steve Jobs at Apple.
Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:33 Mikey Shulman It knows your mood, it like has your Apple Watch, you know, it has your heart rate, and it just streams you endless music that only you're gonna like, that is just hitting that nerve in your brain.