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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Mac comes up
How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 37:38 Cliff Weitzman It's when you go lower, not lower, if you go then into the product facing things that we build, for example, the platform team, or the iOS team, or the Mac team, or the Chrome team, or the web team, or the Android team, these are super…
Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated
- ▶ 1:15:53 Jason Lemkin And we lived through the Mac mini open claw drama and the new entrance can't solve the goal seeking nature of the LLMs they're running on.
Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- ▶ 1:26:50 Harry Stebbings The worst is, nah, for or against, Nike or Adidas, Apple or Mac, Apple or Windows, you feel something.
Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
- ▶ 41:27 Jason Lemkin I can't even get my Mac Studio with more than 64 gigabytes.
Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- ▶ 14:41 Jason Lemkin OpenClaw just made a million Mac minis do what I just described without a bunch of folks knowing on their desktops.
Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 4:34 Rory O'Driscoll Some of the DeepSeq models you can run on your PC, or your Mac, or on a laptop, right?
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:42 Mike Mignano A harness that you, that takes over your Mac mini.
Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100K Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:14 Clay Bavor On your cluster of Mac minis or whatever.
Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups | Legora CTO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:52 unnamed speaker I have local transcription on my Mac.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:42:24 Cliff Weitzman The first time I ever heard one is like Mac minis were out of stock, but like they always had the product to sell.
Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:19 Jason Lemkin Well, I mean, Apple basically increased this week the price of the Mac mini from five 99 to seven 99 because of memory. 2 times in the scene
Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:38 Tobi Lütke Like, you know, most of us who use Cloud Code use it through Ghosty on a Mac, or usually Ghosty is like a terminal application, which is like, perfect, right?
Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:11 Jason Lemkin And we're going to look back at last year is this transition era where most workflows were managed by humans and 20 late 20 26 into 2027 is most workflows are going to be managed by A.I. agents, not A.I. agents working autonomously, not…
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:14 Jason Lemkin All these goofballs on X with their, with their Mac minis and Mac macros and 11 of them stacked in their closet.
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:24 Jerry Murdock Well, I would have him go buy a Mac mini, have an open claw,
Thrive Raises New $10B Fund | OpenAI Buys OpenClaw | Stripe at $140B: Is Adyen Wildly Undervalued? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:51 Jason Lemkin That's why we're not only buying Mac minis, we're buying Mac studios that can run a full model on the Mac, the, you know, the 4000 or 6000 dollar max, Mac studios. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:51 Jason Lemkin That's why we're not only buying Mac minis, we're buying Mac studios that can run a full model on the Mac, the, you know, the 4000 or 6000 dollar max, Mac studios. 3 times in the scene
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:54 Sebastian Siemiatkowski I was running my own model on it.
The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI
- ▶ 1:35:18 unnamed speaker I didn't want to put it on my stuff.
Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir & Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:24 Jason Lemkin Um, do you have DVI on the Mac?
Benchmark vs a16z: Why Stage Specific Firms Win · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:18:56 Rory O'Driscoll Look, I have even, I was telling Jason this before you got on, I have even switched from a PC to a Mac to make this work, so I'm trying my best, Harry guy, so come on.
Guillaume Moubeche, lempire Founder: Bootsrapping to $30M ARR Through Content & Brand | E1238 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:00 Guillaume Moubeche Everyone's on Mac.
Dax Dasilva: $900M ARR at $2.6BN Market Cap?! Lightspeed, The Most Undervalued Public Company |E1188 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:50 Dax Dasilva And actually, the pricing is a really interesting one, because when I was pricing Lightspeed to begin with, there was a lot of Mac business software. 2 times in the scene
The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:28 Yann LeCun So coming up with amazing ideas that you would never have thought about or willing to spend the time to crunch down the seven billion weight LAMA so that it runs on a Mac, on a laptop.
Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:03 Jeff Seibert I'm an old school Mac programmer.
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:05 Harry Stebbings They own the endpoint on both your iMac, your Mac, your iPad, your iPod, whatever it is, your iPhone.
Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:30 Yann LeCun So coming up with amazing ideas that you would never have thought about or willing to spend the time to crunch down the, you know, seven billion weight llama so that it runs, uh, on a Mac on a laptop.
Glen Coates: Why Shopify Will Dominate Amazon; How Microsoft Made Smartest Move of 2023 | E986 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:04 Glen Coates Like Apple is like the Mac, the iPhone, the iPad, the watch, the everything.
Tony Fadell: Product Marketing Lessons I Learned from Steve Jobs | 20VC #884 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:27 Tony Fadell And then I just filed that journey from writing software to making hardware and software and just continuing along and, and, and followed my heroes after trying startups and stuff like that, followed my heroes out to, to Silicon Valley at…
- ▶ 28:06 Tony Fadell Macs as well.
- ▶ 36:23 Tony Fadell It only worked with Macs, which were a fraction of the market, less than a percent, you know, of just the US, not the rest of the world. 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,… 2 times in the scene
Fabrice Grinda: The First Person to Predict the Collapse of Credit Suisse? | 20VC #886 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:41 Harry Stebbings While we were talking, the Bank of England just confirmed, I got a ping, literally a push notification on my, uh, my Mac.
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
- ▶ 40:07 Harry Stebbings While we were talking, the Bank of England just confirmed, I got a ping, literally a push notification on my, my Mac.
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
- ▶ 31:17 Elena Verna On Mac only, in US only, we didn't deal with any of the edge cases and all of that messiness and all of that boring work.
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
- ▶ 6:53 Sameer Gandhi But endpoint was still like this legacy, very brittle antivirus, you know, kind of stuff that you remember your Mac takes forever to boot up or your PC, you know, bogs down that sort of thing.
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
- ▶ 29:38 Krista Quarles So like running windows on a Mac or our remote application start, we've got all these sub brands.
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
- ▶ 5:43 Christian Reber Launched it for Mac and Windows, and it was an insane hit.
20VC: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta on His Lessons From The Hyper-Growth of Instacart, The Key Question To Ask When Building or Evaluating Teams & The Importance of Investing In and Detecting Slopes Rather Than Intercepts
- ▶ 20:57 Harry Stebbings When you click Excel on my Mac, it says sign in or register.
20VC: IA Ventures' Jesse Beyroutey on Game Theory and How It Impacts Investor Mindset, How To Avoid "The Pressure To Deploy" Today In Venture & Why Ownership Is The Single Most Important Parameter When Investing
- ▶ 28:20 Jesse Beyroutey So I set up, I use the, the app, I think it's called self-control on my Mac and it blocks off most of the websites, news sites,
20VC: Why Founders Should Not Always Be Raising, How To Build Relationships with VCs In A Condensed Timeframe, Why The Founder To VC Relationship Is Not Like A Marriage with Dave Vasen, Founder & CEO @ Brightwheel
- ▶ 23:31 Dave Vasen I mean, even, even to the extent of like, when I came back, I had a PC and folks would, would give you a look or say some comment because it wasn't a Mac.
20VC: How To Run The Perfect Fundraising Process, Why Time Kills All Deals & Why You Have To Get VCs Out Of The Board Room with Wayne Chang, Serial Entrepreneur & Angel Investor
- ▶ 10:09 Wayne Chang You hit step 57, and it says you use a Mac, click here, and there's additional 30 steps in the return.
20VC: Niccolo De Masi on The Bursting Of The Tech Bubble and What It Takes To Be A Celebrity Partner with Glu Mobile
- ▶ 19:59 Niccolo De Masi Um, you know, there's only two and a half, 2.6 billion smartphones in the world, but the seven billion people, and we address phones and tablets and Apple TV and even the Mac store.
20 VC FF 032: Jeff Seibert on Lessons From Being Acquired By Twitter & Box and Now Leading Twitter's Consumer Product
- ▶ 2:25 Jeff Seibert So I, of course, followed the hello world example in the first chapter, but because this was Mac programming and because this was, uh, a 1997, roughly, I think this was the age of Mac OS eight and it's entirely graphical. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:25 Jeff Seibert So I, of course, followed the hello world example in the first chapter, but because this was Mac programming and because this was, uh, a 1997, roughly, I think this was the age of Mac OS eight and it's entirely graphical.