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Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World Sep 12, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 35:07 Matteo Franceschetti I grew up, and I remember when I bought my, um, iPod, uh, with the, it was impossible, and I was buying a second-hand iPod on eBay back then, but because Americans were having this product, and it was not being sold in Europe yet. 2 times in the scene

Insights from Coatue's Growth Investor Lucas Swisher · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 23, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:06:05 Harry Stebbings But the iPod Nanos and the iPod, I was like, wow, thousands, like now with the new iPhones, let's be honest, like no one's like, yeah,
  • ▶ 1:06:05 Harry Stebbings But the iPod Nanos and the iPod, I was like, wow, thousands, like now with the new iPhones, let's be honest, like no one's like, yeah,

Antoine Le Nel, CGO @Revolut: How Revolut Launch and Grow Products & Why CAC is a BS Metric | E1216 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 18, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:20 Harry Stebbings And I'll take, I'll take the iPod, ok, it's the way that it was boxed, the way that it felt, the scroll wheel, the white, silver, the product, but it was also the brilliance of a thousand songs in your pocket, the white background, the…

Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 2, 2024 · 1 mention

The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 24, 2023 · 1 mention

Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 22, 2023 · 1 mention

Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 15, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:05 Harry Stebbings They own the endpoint on both your iMac, your Mac, your iPad, your iPod, whatever it is, your iPhone.

Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 6, 2023 · 1 mention

Tony Fadell: Why You Can't Be a Solo Founder; Mercenary vs. Missionary Operators | 20VC #910 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 25, 2022 · 3 mentions

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 Jul 6, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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.

Tony Fadell: Product Marketing Lessons I Learned from Steve Jobs | 20VC #884 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 6, 2022 · 15 mentions

  • ▶ 2:10 Tony Fadell Fast forward, uh, over, you know, almost 30 years there, and out came, uh, uh, you know, the iPod and the iPhone and Nest and its line of products.
  • ▶ 36:10 Tony Fadell The iPod 8 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,… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:19 Tony Fadell Uh, at Apple was the iPod Hi-Fi. 3 times in the scene

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 May 18, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:18 Darius Contractor Infinite money for free, free iPod, sign up now, and you get all these signups, you've like boosted the metric, but you've created like, you've messed up your funnel, the downstream is really bad, et cetera, et cetera.

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 Mar 15, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings So with that, I'm very, very excited to introduce Tony Fidel, often referred to as the father of the iPod. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 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…

Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Transition as a Venture Firm & The Dangers of Attribution In Venture Feb 4, 2020 · 1 mention

20VC: What John Doerr Taught Me About Great Investing, Why Not All A Rounds Are Post-Traction and Why Despite Overfunding, There Is Still Gaps In Venture Financing with Trae Vassallo, Founding Partner @ Defy.vc Jun 4, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:02 Trae Vassallo He and Tony Fidel had started this company that ultimately became the iPod and then the iPhone, and then, and so he spent 10 years at Apple building iPhones and iPads.

20VC: How To Create FOMO For Investors, How To Manage VC Conversations & A Repeatable Process For Learning New Things with Anna Shedletsky, Founder & CEO @ Instrumental.ai Apr 7, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings As for Anna, prior to Instrumentl, Anna was a product design lead and manager for the Apple Watch, and before that, a product design engineer for the Apple iPod.
  • ▶ 2:42 Anna Shedletsky I was a product design engineer at Apple for six years, designing mechanical components for three different iPods.

20VC: Do VC's Really Hustle Enough? The Takeaways From Watching Twitter Scale From 30 to 2,500 & Why Chris Sacca Is Like Yoda with Ryan Sarver, Partner @ Redpoint Sep 14, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings And before Twitter, Ryan was director of consumer products at Skyhook Wireless, which pioneered the Wi-Fi and cellular tower triangulation technology incorporated in the iPhone, iPod Touch, and MacBook.

20VC: Dollar Shave Club's Series A & B Lead Investor, David Pakman on The Requirements For A Successful Subscription Business & Why A Lot of Investors Do Not Like Consumer Aug 10, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:08 David Pakman I think, uh, there are 53 people from Apple, 70 total people now, uh, that, that built and managed and, uh, delivered iPhones, iPads, Apple Watch, uh, and iPods, uh,

20VC: Felicis' Wesley Chan on The Rise of IoT, Getting Recruited by Larry Page & Creating Google's Biggest Success Disaster Jun 29, 2016 · 1 mention

20VC: Andy Rachleff, Founder @ Benchmark & Wealthfront on What Makes The Best CEO & Board Member & Why Ivy League Endowments Are The Best Managed Capital In The World Jun 20, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:28 Andy Rachleff If you think about Apple layering on top of the iPod on top of computers, and then the iPhone, and then the iPad, Adobe,
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