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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
- ▶ 9:46 unnamed speaker We had launched support for iPhone game development that was growing super fast.
- ▶ 12:29 David Helgason Mobile was really going from like the clever phone era before smartphone era, and then onto kind of the big iPhone and Android platforms and all this stuff.
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 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:45 Shishir Mehrotra And, you know, use special screws to make sure you couldn't open the box and ship the iPhone without an app store and so on.
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
- ▶ 3:24 Sahil Lavingia And before that I was in high school making iPhone apps. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:51 Sahil Lavingia So it doesn't have the at symbol and the dot on the iPhone, for example.
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
- ▶ 26:36 unnamed speaker That if I pull out an iPhone in front of somebody, I feel a little bit better about that than if I pulled out a Samsung, you know.
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework
- ▶ 11:40 Mike Maples The technology inflection was the GPS locators in smartphones were 10 times more accurate with the iPhone three GS and beyond. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:58 Harry Stebbings For me, I strongly push back on that because I think they're conflating the macro economy with the technology advancements of GPS, of the rise of the app store and of the iPhone with the macro environment that was also simultaneously… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Upfront's Mark Suster on COVID Redefining What A Great Company Looks Like and What Valuations Look Like, Why Pay-To-Play Is Back On The Table & Why We Will See The Death of Party Rounds
- ▶ 29:26 Mark Suster So if you invested before the iPhone launched, I think it was 2007.
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
- ▶ 22:38 unnamed speaker It's not that Office is a beautiful experience the way that an iPhone is, but it's not a software mediated experience to something else.
Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Transition as a Venture Firm & The Dangers of Attribution In Venture
- ▶ 15:32 Todd Jackson I think at the time, there were like three times the number of Android users to iPhone users, and nowadays, I think it's like five times. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:47 Todd Jackson Work internally at Apple during the age of the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad.
20VC: Why Now Is The Hardest Time To Raise an Institutional Pre-Seed in the Last Decade, What To Do When The Founder and VC Interests Do Not Align & The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds with Gaurav Jain, Founder & Managing Partner @ Afore Capital
- ▶ 4:25 Gaurav Jain And this is at a time when iPhone had just launched in oh seven, the app store launched in 2008. 2 times in the scene