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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where iPhone comes up
Davis Smith: From Selling $6M of Pool Tables to Scaling Cotopaxi to $150M in Revenues | E1095 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:23 Davis Smith I'll take them to, to Disneyland, or I'll take, I'll go buy them something that they want an iPhone or those things
Tooey Courtemanche: From Construction Worker to Billionaire CEO | E1090 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:18 Tooey Courtemanche The iPhone didn't come out till 2007, for goodness sakes.
The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 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. 3 times in the scene
Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:42 Jeff Seibert And so if you project forward five years, if they get to the point where they can run a sufficiently large LLM on your iPhone, then OpenAI is out of the picture.
- ▶ 33:05 Harry Stebbings But then actually, I guess, you know, the rise of the iPhone and the app store was actually really quite quick. 2 times in the scene
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:03 Des Traynor Similar to, like, remember, like, in the early days of the iPhone, it was like, you know, there was a torch app, and there was like a, you know, like a copy and paste app.
- ▶ 45:05 Harry Stebbings They own the endpoint on both your iMac, your Mac, your iPad, your iPod, whatever it is, your iPhone.
Matthieu Rouif: The Story of PhotoRoom, Is This YC’s Most Capital Efficient Company? | E1074 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:47 Matthieu Rouif That's why I got in iPhone development was photography in the first place. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:41 Matthieu Rouif And so, for instance, we just focused on the iPhone app in the beginning and really create an amazing experience for these users.
- ▶ 32:16 Matthieu Rouif I, I mean, I told you the exception story, but another part of it is like, I had been working on AI, so we were the first to ship like, uh, Carmel, before Carmel exists, so the iPhone framework, an app with AI to do video editing at GoPro.
Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:22 Scott Farquhar Getting help from someone else, like another human, is going to become much more a search problem than it used to be, because, you know, to solve someone's problem, the data probably exists somewhere in a knowledge base, in someone else's…
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:03 Guillermo Rauch So when I think about the iPhone, I was actually recounting this story of my team that I found fascinating, which is that famously there were two concurrent experiments for what would become the operating system of the iPhone. 3 times in the scene
David Velez: How AI Changes The Future of Finance | E1059 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:28 David Vélez It's not the iPhone.
Nick Huber: Biggest Lies of Silicon Valley; Lost Art of Delegation; How to Grow Your Network | E1051 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:38 Nick Huber They're going to live that if they make a poor decision, if they drive their car too fast and crash it, if they don't put a case on their iPhone and it shatters, they're going to live with the consequences of that poor decision.
Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:29 Vinod Khosla The iPhone sounded ridiculous in 19, in 2006.
Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:37 Harry Stebbings I always think about it with, like, the iPhone.
Jennifer Hyman: Rent The Runway's Journey to $1.7B IPO; Lessons from Beyoncé & Estée Lauder | E1031 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:38 Jennifer Hyman I am of the mindset that AI is going to be the biggest change to how we operate businesses, you know, since, since the iPhone.
David Allemann: How I founded On Running; Working with Roger Federer; Brand Marketing Tips | E1021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:08 David Allemann You remember iPhone, 2008. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:40 David Allemann And so I think that's where magic happens and same for scrolling on the iPhone. 2 times in the scene
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… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:10 Nico Wittenborn So I consciously chose an area to focus on that I believed in strongly because of my background, having started to, to learn about, um, the iPhones and the App Store and seeing the emergence of subscription models there from 2012, then in…
Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:03 Emad Mostaque And so, 2008 is like, um, Pornhub and the iPhone.
Vince Hankes: Why We Put $300M into OpenAI; Sam Altman's Pitch; Lessons from Josh Kushner | E1009 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:09 Vince Hankes I mean, the iPhone went from a million phones a year, kind of post launch to a hundred million in five years.
Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:25 Harry Stebbings In terms of the kind of the, the fun thesis, I, I, I kind of think back to like when we had the iPhone come out, um, or when, you know, Kleiner did the climate change fund, I think it was, um, or the green energy fund, or whatever that…
Snap's VP of Product Jack Brody: The Future of AR; Snap Glasses; Evan Spiegel's Product Mind | E1006 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:18 Harry Stebbings You both have the unique ability to make me hate your products for the first hour when I try the new feature, and a week later I think, why did I ever use the home button on an iPhone before when I can simply swipe up?
- ▶ 44:14 Jack Brody You know, in the US, and especially in the US for early adopters of Snap, the vast majority of them were using an iPhone. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:51 Jack Brody So I would say that the first version of Spectacles, you know, obviously it wasn't an iPhone moment.
AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli: The Funding Market Today; Last-Mile Delivery; Competing w/ Carta | E1005 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:37 Avlok Kohli iPhone was not the first smartphone.
David Marcus: How I Came to Lead PayPal; Why FB's Crypto Failed; How AI Fixes Inequality | E1001 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:07 David Marcus Uh, we have three X star revenue and, uh, it was 2007 and basically the iPhone came to the market and I came to the realization that 2 times in the scene
Frank Fillmann: How I Boosted Revenue by $500M at Salesforce; Tips for Hiring Salespeople | E992 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:58 Frank Fillmann So like when Steve Jobs creates the, uh, the iPhone goes out and does the keynote, no one ever knew they had it. 2 times in the scene
Adam Grenier: The Inside Story to Uber’s Hypergrowth; How We Spent $1B/mo in China | E989 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02 Adam Grenier Uh, that looked like candy bars at the time, not, not iPhones and things like that.
Glen Coates: Why Shopify Will Dominate Amazon; How Microsoft Made Smartest Move of 2023 | E986 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:25 Glen Coates And so after doing a bunch of these trade shows, I kept thinking, well, there should be an iPhone app for entering these orders. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:04 Glen Coates Like Apple is like the Mac, the iPhone, the iPad, the watch, the everything. 2 times in the scene
Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff: The $1BN Amazon Acquisition; How Richard Branson Invested | 20VC #984 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:29 Jamie Siminoff I had just gotten an iPhone and it was one of those.
Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger: The Founders of Instagram Reveal their New Project "Artifact" | E981 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:29 Mike Krieger You were there because the filters made your, you know, photos from your iPhone three G.
- ▶ 28:33 Mike Krieger Or three GS look a little better or a lot better, you know, cause those cameras were, there was still a lot of work to be done on those cameras, uh, versus here.
- ▶ 39:48 Kevin Systrom Uh, definitely 2000, yeah, 2006 is fine, because seven was the iPhone, right?
Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:31 Mike Duboe So rather than having very high produced kind of, uh, video ass TV kind of quality video assets, let people shoot stuff on an iPhone, just get a lot more out there and feed it into the algo.
Albert Wenger: Elon & Twitter; Impact of SBF; Income Inequality; Will they ban TikTok? | 20VC #969 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:03 Albert Wenger You know, we didn't have like an iPhone fund, let's say, or we don't have a crypto fund either.
Liquid Death CEO Mike Cessario: How I Turned Canned Water to a $700M Company | E968 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:30 Mike Cessario When you have a really good idea, you could film it with an iPhone sometimes, and it'll actually still be good.