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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where iPhone comes up
Hadi Partovi: How I Became an Advisor to Mark Zuckerberg; Lessons from Steve Ballmer | 20VC #961 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:08 Hadi Partovi Even today, your iPhone can scan an algebra problem and give you the answer, including the explanation and showing you the work.
Marty Cagan: Product Lessons from Steve Jobs and Elon Musk; Why do we idolize engineers? | 20VC #957 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:10 Marty Cagan He would hold up his iPhone and say, you can conduct a hundred focus groups. 2 times in the scene
Miki Kuusi: How I Scaled Wolt to $8B; Why I Sold to DoorDash | 20VC #953 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:17 Miki Kuusi And for me, the aha moment was kind of realizing that, you know, the phone, the smartphone in everyone's pockets, like iPhone came out in 2008, uh, it's gonna become a remote controller.
- ▶ 7:37 Miki Kuusi Um, and it was only available on the iPhone and we could see the data and it, it looked like this is going to be like a hugely popular game.
Hugo Barra: How I Built Hardware for Android, Xiaomi, and Oculus | 20VC #947 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:39 Hugo Barra Uh, our company ran out of money, and we ended up getting, you know, actually hired by a big software company called Nuance, which was actually good because it actually gave us the runway to build and prove that vision that we had, and in… 3 times in the scene
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:23 Drew Houston And this was like before you had iPhones and wifi on buses and things like that, but I had no idea what it would turn into, but it was really just a personal frustration.
- ▶ 29:43 Drew Houston And then, you know, as far as like basic storage, like we're competing with the iPhone to back up your iPhone. 2 times in the scene
Spotify CTO Gustav Söderström: TikTok's Music; How Olivia Rodrigo Gamed the Algo | 20VC #936 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:22 Gustav Söderström Trying to figure out what to do, and through a mutual friend, I met Daniel Ek, the founder and CEO, the co-founder and CEO of Spotify, and he showed me this amazing application, because Spotify already existed as an application on desktop,…
David Lieb: How I Founded Google Photos & Bump; Why I Left Google | 20VC #927 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01 David Lieb Like, five times a day, I would, like, type in somebody's phone number, and then ask them how to spell their name, and then I would call them, and they would, like, dismiss the call and add my number to their address book, and it was right…
- ▶ 7:18 David Lieb Um, and I remember like back in the day, you were probably too young for this, but, um, back in the olden days, you would take photos on your iPhone and they were just on your iPhone and they filled up your, your disc on your iPhone and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:15 David Lieb Like, I remember so many times in the early days of Google Photos, I would, like, walk over with my phone to the engineer who was building the main grid of the iPhone app, and I'd sit next to him and I'd be like,
Kirsten Green: The Biggest Challenges Scaling Both Teams and AUM | 20VC #912 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:02 Kirsten Green I would like my, um, I would like my iPhone. 2 times in the scene
Tony Fadell: Why You Can't Be a Solo Founder; Mercenary vs. Missionary Operators | 20VC #910 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:51 Tony Fadell And then it became the iPod and then became the iPhone. 2 times in the scene
20 Product: The Ultimate Guide to Product Reviews: What Makes the Best vs the Worst | How Often Should They Be | Who Should Be Invited | Who Sets The Agenda | How to do Follow-Ups Post Product Reviews
- ▶ 10:22 Harry Stebbings Now, I'm so excited to be joined by Tony Fidel, the creator of the iPod, iPhone, and Nest, in this incredible breakdown of how he does product reviews.
Adam Fishman: Takeaways from Lyft and Patreon; How to Build Viral Loops | 20VC #897 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:43 Harry Stebbings You know, when the home button was removed from the iPhone, it was like, you, unbelievable.
Tony Fadell: Product Marketing Lessons I Learned from Steve Jobs | 20VC #884 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:27 Tony Fadell And then I just filed that journey from writing software to making hardware and software and just continuing along and, and, and followed my heroes after trying startups and stuff like that, followed my heroes out to, to Silicon Valley at… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:01 Tony Fadell Are iPhones for everyone? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:20 Tony Fadell So, and everyone else has Macs, and that was because, simply, we made the switch from making the iPhone only work, or the iPod only work with Macs, to making it work with everything, and then people started coming into the, into the, the,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:19 Tony Fadell We could have looked at the first version of the iPhone that never shipped as a failure, but we didn't, we went on to make the second one.
- ▶ 1:01:32 Tony Fadell Is it the next iPhone?
Oliver Jay: How To Create and Execute a World-Class Sales Playbook | 20VC #889 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:11 Oliver Jay And that started with Apple with the iPhone and probably around, what, 2000 and 2000 10, right?
20Growth: Five Signs of Top Growth Talent and How to Detect Them, How to Structure and Conduct the Most Efficient Customer Discovery Process & The Framework to Determine Your North Star and When To Change it with Darius Contractor, Former VP Growth @ Airt
- ▶ 6:30 Darius Contractor So I've had companies say that, like, oh, we have an iPhone app, and the Android app is just to, like, get more people, so that's a growth project.
20 Product: Robinhood CPO on The 3 Stages of Product Management, How to Structure and Execute Great Product Reviews, The Secret to Building a World-Class Hiring Funnel in Product Team Building with Aparna Chennapragada
- ▶ 8:47 Aparna Chennapragada Like, people wouldn't have, like, said, oh, I need an iPhone.
- ▶ 19:27 Aparna Chennapragada oh, I use it on my iPhone, and it's great.
How I Bought 12% of Google for $12M; How VC is Fixing Climate Change | John Doerr Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07 John Doerr But we also formed the iFund, it was Steve Jobs, and did the crazy thing of backing entrepreneurs who were selling games for a dollar a copy on the iPhone.