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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where iPhone comes up
20VC: The Contentful Memo: Point Nine's Christoph Janz on The Cold Email That Led to a Unicorn Investment, How To Approach Market Sizing and Timing & The Pros and Cons of Pre-Emptive Rounds, When To Do Them vs When Not To?
- ▶ 9:36 Christoph Janz So this was already like year five of the iPhone.
20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse
- ▶ 9:32 Eugene Wei If you think about prototypes and Apple, so famously when they were trying to build the first iPhone, one of the huge questions was whether you could have an all electronic touch keyboard rather than the physical keys of the BlackBerrys,…
- ▶ 12:01 Eugene Wei You know, there's a reason Steve Jobs didn't announce the new iPhone by issuing a press release or just launching it on a website. 2 times in the scene
20VC's Therapist Thursday: We Are Not All Crushing It All The Time So Let's Stop Pretending, Working Through Challenges of Self-Worth and Self-Doubt & How To Find Joy in the Striving with Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight
- ▶ 5:21 Nick Mehta I go to the computer lab and, like, pretend to be programming and just eat my lunch, and there was no iPhone or, you know, music back then to listen to, so you were just kind of, like, really, like, living in your own loneliness.
20VC: Optimising Investment Decision-Making in Compressed Fundraising Timelines & A Deep Dive on Portfolio Construction, Price Sensitivity and The Importance of Ownership with Mark Mullen, Co-Founder @ Bonfire Ventures
- ▶ 32:15 Mark Mullen So I get the iPhone. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Checkout.com Founder Guillaume Pousaz on The Transition From Bootstrapped Founder to Raising $830M and a $15Bn Valuation, What It Means To Have "3 Roadmaps For Life" & How Becoming a Parent Changes the Type of Leader You Are
- ▶ 3:28 Guillaume Pousaz So this is like pre iPhone, pre Facebook, but you know, faster internet, but cheaper bandwidth, you know, year on year, cheaper computing power, put this together.
20VC: Tony Fadell "The Father of The iPod" on Mentors, Self-Doubt, Vulnerability, His Relationship To Money, Why Entrepreneurs Need to Be Coachable, Why VCs Need To Be More Direct & Why The First Trillionaire Will Innovate Around Climate Change
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Before Nest, Tony spent an incredible nine years at Apple, where as SVP of Apple's iPod division, he led the team that created the first 18 generations of the iPod, and the first three generations of the iPhone.
- ▶ 7:00 Harry Stebbings Like, how do you think about knowing someone's true motivation of, like, whether they actually just like Tony and want to hang out, or whether it's like, oh, it's Tony from, you know, Nest, and, you know, the iPhone, the iPad, and the…
20VC: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on His Biggest Lessons Building and Growing Blackberry, The Right Way to View Competition and Innovation Cycles & How To Make The Transition From COO To CEO Most Effectively
- ▶ 6:03 Patrick Spence You know, we'll overtake the iPhone and Android and all those, and that's not the way I saw it, and so
- ▶ 9:40 Patrick Spence So we ended up in a situation where after the iPhone came out, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:12 Patrick Spence You know, the way I mentioned we got at RIM with the iPhone and really responded in that way.
20VC: Databricks CEO, Ali Ghodsi on The 3 Phases of Startup Growth, How to Evaluate Risk and Downside Scenario Planning & Who, What and When To Hire When Scaling Your Go-To-Market
- ▶ 17:12 Ali Ghodsi I mean, we can take a cliche, take the iPhone and compare it with smartphones of its time.