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20VC: Inside Bending Spoons Acquisition Machine: Evernote, Eventbrite, Vimeo | How Evernote Evaluates Acquisitions and New Product Ideas | How Evernote Mastered Product Launches, User Retention and Monetisation with Federico Simionato
- ▶ 40:10 Federico Simionato Mobile version of Risk, the game, the board game, on my iPhone.
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:52 Jonathan Siddharth I mean, I don't know anything about that, but I've been told that, like, they have different floors where, you know, maybe they're on one floor, the iPhone is getting made, and on another phone, another floor, maybe a Pixel phone is…
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:27 Rory O'Driscoll And then, and then there's just the steady growth or even the iPhone, better example, the early one, you know, great launch is going to change everything. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:55 Rory O'Driscoll But the question is owning, so from Apple's perspective, owning Safari in the iPhone, where it's kind of a pain in the ass to change, is clearly worth twenty billion dollars of profit a year, right?
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:55 unnamed speaker Apple, I would argue near Microsoft, Facebook, Google in an old market search, iPhone, you know, social, though they'll resist that definition forever and whatever Microsoft is corporate, right?
- ▶ 55:45 Jason Lemkin And 75% of its revenue is iPhone and App Store. 2 times in the scene
20Product: Should We Kill the PM Role Entirely | How Does Product Design Change Most in a World of AI | How Do Monzo Build Product Today: What Works, What Does Not | Why Most Product Sucks and What Makes Truly Great Product
- ▶ 20:05 Fernando Fanton This example, like I was saying this, this phone from London, you could argue the iPhone is done.
Scott Galloway on Billionaire Happiness, Money & Self-Worth | Why We Should Drink More & Not WFH · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:42 Scott Galloway A common thread through history is that the greatest innovation in history is not the iPhone or the semiconductor or vaccines.
Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:44 Rory O'Driscoll So, again, rough math on an iPhone on a small screen, it's like rule of 80.
Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:18 Harry Stebbings Will Apple announce iPhone assembly operations in the US this year?
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:44 unnamed speaker Once the things that we talked about this, once the things settled down and the paths are more obvious, you know, maybe X years from now when, you know, some view of the world will emerge as it did with the iPhone was like, okay, you put…
20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- ▶ 1:04:59 Luke Harries And now you have Apple pushing that the reason you should upgrade to the newest iPhone or upgrade to the newest laptop is because of Apple intelligence.
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:44 Severin Hacker It was like a, uh, an iPhone moment.
20VC: Foundation Models: Who Wins & Who Loses | How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI | China vs the US in an AI Race: What You Need to Know | Rich Socher, Founder @ You.com
- ▶ 11:56 Richard Socher Also, the scary and sad statistic is like, 80% of all iPhone users never change a single setting of any kind.
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:32 unnamed speaker But, but be a bit of a bummer to discover you'd invested in BlackBerry, and it was still private, and they just launched the iPhone, and you decide, screw it, we can take these guys, I'll put in another billion.
Benchmark GP, Victor Lazarte: The 3 Traits All the Best Founders Have · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:38 Victor Lazarte I love sitting in front of my computer and tracking the packages that iOS, uh, that the iPhones send to servers, because I really understand, like, how that architecture is done, because if I pay enough attention, then I'm, I get a chance… 2 times in the scene
Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:22 Kevin Scott You're designing an iPhone application in Xcode.
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:49 Mitchell Green You know, since the iPhone came out in 2007, 2006, whatever it was, there's only been three companies built that did not exist before.
Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:21 Harry Stebbings Kind of dilemma that I think about, which is, to a word you said earlier, you said democratization, and I think about this a lot because I see your Sam Sulix, I don't know if you know Sam Sulix, the weightlifting guy, um, for anyone who…
Brian Tolkin, Head of Product @Opendoor: How to Hire the Best Product Teams | E1257 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:49 Harry Stebbings I remember the iPhone losing its home button. 2 times in the scene
Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:23 Eran Zinman The day after when I woke up, um, I opened my iPhone, opened the stocks app and added Monday.
Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:03 Shervin Pishevar Yeah, so, um, I met him because, uh, Sheryl Sandberg actually was a mentor of mine, and, um, I was building, you know, Facebook apps and iPhone games for my, uh, one of my first companies.
- ▶ 11:03 Shervin Pishevar No, no, no, you're turning the, every car into an iPhone.
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:12 Mike Maples Lyft harnessed the iPhone for us had a GPS chip in it.