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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where iPhone comes up
Guillaume Moubeche, lempire Founder: Bootsrapping to $30M ARR Through Content & Brand | E1238 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:58 Guillaume Moubeche And now everyone's using iPhone.
- ▶ 59:03 Guillaume Moubeche Uh, let's assume they all have iPhone.
Torsten Reil, Helsing Founder: Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | E1237 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:24 Torsten Reil Um, we, we watched Rockstar work, and we were big fans of, of Rockstar games, and we thought, well, we should give it a go as well, and ended up making games for iPhone, which, um, which worked out very well. 2 times in the scene
Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:47 Marc Benioff And then, um, I'm like, well, this is really awesome that you can work on the iPhone and the iPad
George Arison, Grindr CEO: How Grindr Built a Free Flow Cash Machine | E1234 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:22 George Arison I remember when I first saw Grindr on a friend's iPhone in 2009, I was building a company on Blackberry, so I didn't have an iPhone. 3 times in the scene
Markus Villig, Founder @Bolt: The Most Insane Story in Startups & The Future of Self-Driving| E1225 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:32 Harry Stebbings Wow, this is like the iPhone moment.
Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:52 Eoghan McCabe Apple very famously championed their patented iPhone technologies, and yet Samsung came and actually beat them on many different criteria.
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:32 Bret Taylor 10 years and a hundred percent of those people had iPhones in their pocket. 2 times in the scene
Dmitry Gurski: From Potato Farm to $200M in Revenue: The Never-Before-Told Story of Flo Health|E1205 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:28 Dmitry Gurski Even Apple spent much resources to explain that you're not like arriving to shop and you're getting your iPhone in gray box.
Sean Rad: Lessons Scaling Tinder to the Fastest Growing Consumer Social App in History | E1199 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Scott Gorlick: How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers & The Uber’s Expansion Playbook | E1196 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:25 Scott Gorlick They would come to our office and, you know, we'd give them an iPhone, which is a story at some point. 2 times in the scene
Imran Khan: Why the IPO Market is Not Closed & Lessons From Taking Snap & Alibaba Public | E1194 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:09 Imran Khan If you look at iPhone, that fundamentally changed that, was created by a public company.
Aman Narang: 5 Lessons Scaling Toast to $14BN Market Cap | E1192 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:32 Aman Narang And, uh, and so now it was like, became real, because, you know, um, we had to go figure out fundraising, and figure out what we wanted to build, and unlike, like, 2008, um, when we were initially, Steve and I had really gotten going, when…
Aidan Gomez: What No One Understands About Foundation Models | E1191 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:17 Harry Stebbings It just becomes a better calculator for the iPhone.
Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:39 Kaz Nejatian Like, it's just very clear that, like, this is, like, I think Ray-Ban glasses are just, like, not quite the iPhone moment, but they're, like, almost the iPhone moment.
Ethan Mollick: Why OpenAl Abandons Products, The Biggest Opportunities They Have Not Taken | E1184 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:26 Harry Stebbings I always think about actually iPhone releases and, you know, the first iPhones, there were big differences between the early releases of like the three and then the four, and then slowly it just became kind of a little bit better camera… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:26 Harry Stebbings I always think about actually iPhone releases and, you know, the first iPhones, there were big differences between the early releases of like the three and then the four, and then slowly it just became kind of a little bit better camera…
- ▶ 8:26 Harry Stebbings I always think about actually iPhone releases and, you know, the first iPhones, there were big differences between the early releases of like the three and then the four, and then slowly it just became kind of a little bit better camera…
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:33 Delian Asparouhov But if you look at the top 10 companies on the NASDAQ, Steve Jobs did not ask people for their feedback when building the iPhone.
Pedro Franceschi: What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company | E1178 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:03 Pedro Franceschi And, um, I started coding as a kid, uh, when I was eight or nine, originally hacking iPhones, uh, back in the day where they were not sold in Brazil.
Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:21 Saam Motamedi And you talked about, like, the calculator or maps on the iPhone. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:44 Saam Motamedi There are many like mobile CRM companies like, Hey, I'll put, you know, CRM on the iPhone.
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:23 Harry Stebbings I would say Sequoia is like an iPhone, which is like, once you have an iPhone, it's like, we're not going to go to an Android, am I? 2 times in the scene
Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:34 Val Scholz But it's, it's a bit like if, let's say you're Apple, um, there's only so much revenue you can make with an iPhone because not everybody wants or needs an iPhone.
- ▶ 11:30 Val Scholz I think people wanted a bank card that actually looked like an iPhone.
Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:20 unnamed speaker And I want you to fund my new smartphone to compete with the iPhone.
Aaron Levie: How the Business Model of SaaS Changes Forever & Startups vs Incumbents:Who Wins?|E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:10 Aaron Levie I think if we were having this conversation, imagine having this conversation 20 years ago exactly, and being like, wait a second, if, if the iPhone lets you, you know, have any software, and Amazon lets you build any software, aren't we…
Sam Altman & Brad Lightcap: Which Companies Will Be Steamrolled by OpenAI? | E1140 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:40 Brad Lightcap If you think about, like, what the iPhone looked like, you know, what mobile looked like in 2009 versus today, it kind of is the same thing.
Bastian Lehmann: How the Uber Deal Went Down and How a $2.65BN Deal Turned into $5BN | E1137 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:02 Bastian Lehmann Uh, I'm sure that they could eventually put an additional chip in an iPhone that does inference and,
Will Wu: Top Five Product Lessons from Creating Snapchat "Discover" and "Chat" | E1111 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:55 Will Wu I remember we were getting to know each other telling stories, and I started telling him the story of how, and again, this makes me look like a kind of weirdo, but for the original iPhone, I remember I was so excited about the launch of… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:50 Will Wu And I think about the original iPhone, for example. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:56 Will Wu She's not that good at using apps on her iPhone, but she's really good at talking.