Mac
also referred to as: macs
includes Mac Mini, Mac Studio, Mac App Store, Mac OS 8, Mac Minis
2 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 6, 2022 by Tony Fadell · said 59 times in 40 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Jason Lemkin (13), Tony Fadell (12), Harry Stebbings (5), Jeff Seibert (4), Yann LeCun (2), Rory O'Driscoll (2), Dax Dasilva (2), Cliff Weitzman (2)
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2026 23 mentions in 18 episodes 1 per episode
- Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated
- Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
- Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2024 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2023 5 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Glen Coates: Why Shopify Will Dominate Amazon; How Microsoft Made Smartest Move of 2023 | E986 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 14 mentions in 3 episodes 5 per episode
- Tony Fadell: Product Marketing Lessons I Learned from Steve Jobs | 20VC #884 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: WTF Is Going On? 3 Outcomes for What Could Happen From Here; What Needs to Happen To Avoid Recession? Why Stagnation is Most Likely and What This Means for Startups and Venture & Why Catastrophe is More Likely Than Ever and Switzerland Could Be a "H
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- 20 Growth: The 3 Levers to Successful Growth Models, The 3 Types of Growth Hires Startups Need To Know, The 3 Stages All Successful Growth Teams Need To Go Through with Elena Verna, Advisor @ MongoDB and HP
- 20VC: The Crowdstrike Memo: Accel's Sameer Gandhi on Leading Multiple Internal Rounds for Crowdstrike, Telling George Kurtz to Go Shop His Term Sheet, How To Think Through Market Sizing & The Importance of Speed of Execution and Knowing When To Go Slow To
- 20VC: A Masterclass in Leadership and Scaling Companies: The Decisions only the CEO Can Make, The Secret To Talent Acquisition and Retention and How To Find The Unscalable Things that are Fundamental To Scale with Christa Quarles, CEO @ Corel Corporation
- 20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
2016 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Mac, oldest first
Jun 6, 2022 neutral
Fadell: iPod wasn't a successful business until its third generation
“The iPod Was a critical success, but it didn't really turn into a successful business till the third generation. And the reason being was it didn't work with Windows based PCs. It only worked with Macs, which were a fraction of the market, less than a percent,…”
Jun 6, 2022 negative
Fadell: iPod's original strategy was driving Mac sales, which failed
“We're going to sell the iPod. It's going to be so awesome that people will buy Macs so they could use their iPod. We're going to sell more Macs because they're going to need to buy one to use an iPod that they're going to have to have. Well, guess what? The fi…”