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“Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z
- ▶ 30:04 Alex Rampell Well, I imagine the other part of the question for you, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this, um, or I'm sure our audience would love to hear our thoughts on this, but this is not like you download the AI app from the app store 2 times in the scene
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 1:00:40 Qasar Younis It's like us sitting in 2007 and saying, let's, uh, we, we should have an app store. 2 times in the scene
How to Reorg After AI Changes Everything | Block's Owen Jennings on the a16z Show
- ▶ 21:45 Owen Jennings It's actually gonna, like, create that app for you, and the, the way that that app looks and feels is not in the source code of the actual application that we push to the, to the app store, and so I think it's, um, it gives folks way more…
Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 21:30 Olivia Moore They were number one on the App Store, the US App Store, for 20 consecutive days, which is very hard to do. 2 times in the scene
Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?
- ▶ 8:04 unnamed speaker So if you actually think about, if you go to app store today, top five out of top 10 productivity apps are all Google.
Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
- ▶ 14:24 Vlad Tenev Even though it was probably like, you know, four years since the, the creation of the App Store.
- ▶ 23:54 Vlad Tenev Juxtapose that with also we were number one in the app store and not just number one in the, in the, in the finance section, but number one overall ahead of Instagram and TikTok.
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 6:16 Eugenia Kuyda On the App Store. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:10 Eugenia Kuyda Apple Notes, and I try to find some apps on the App Store, and they're just, there's just so much in these apps that I didn't need, and so I just wanted a really simple, I'm also trying to follow one particular book, I wanted the workouts…
- ▶ 14:26 Eugenia Kuyda So if today the app store is very much not social and it probably won't ever be social because of
- ▶ 16:41 Eugenia Kuyda Um, and I do believe a lot in the concept of an organizational layer, like to a degree, um, the app store is the organizational layer for, um, you know, the mobile and, um, the browser, the organizational layer for internet. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:48 Justine Moore Not only for existing creators for who it's really obvious they want to do this, but also for people who are not creators today, but who have really interesting ideas and just like no way to build their own mobile app, get it approved in… 2 times in the scene
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 1:17:19 Anish Acharya iPhone in 2007, App Store in 2008. 2 times in the scene
The Top 100 GenAI Products, Ranked and Explained
- ▶ 0:31 Anish Acharya The app store is going to be chaos.
- ▶ 19:30 Anish Acharya I mean, the App Store is gonna be chaos.
Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI
- ▶ 1:32:00 Anjney Midha Still really locked down platform, and they, they took a very strong point of view on what the quality bar needed to be to be in the app store and so on. 2 times in the scene
What DeepSeek Means For The Future Of AI | Tech Veterans Weigh In
- ▶ 3:37 unnamed speaker It hit number one in the App Store.
How AI is Reshaping Labor Markets: A $Trillion-Dollar Opportunity Explained
- ▶ 11:25 unnamed speaker It'll be very interesting to see the appetite if you think back to the app store early days when people were so reticent to pay 99 cents for an app for arbitrary reasons, but just because it was what they were used to paying.
How Discord Became a Developer Platform
- ▶ 5:51 Jason Citrin And, um, got into an opportunity where I was able to start a company, and through the process of building a game on the iPhone, actually launched a game, um, the day the App Store opened in 2008, one of the first 50 titles on the, the App… 2 times in the scene
Zach Perret (Plaid) & Simon Khalaf (Marqeta): New Applications in Fintech
- ▶ 7:15 Simon Khalaf It's the only financial services product that's been in the top 25 on the App Store the last three years.
The Top 100 GenAI Consumer Apps
- ▶ 1:19 Olivia Moore And then we did the same on mobile with Sensor Tower, which gives us App Store data.
- ▶ 3:36 Olivia Moore App Store keyword and optimization perspective. 3 times in the scene
Big Ideas 2024: The Consumer AI Battleground Moves from Model to UX with Alex Immerman
- ▶ 9:45 Alex Immerman My colleague Jamie Sullivan would say it's the difference between being one of the hundreds of compass apps in the app store and Uber using the geo locations of a smartphone to build an application that wasn't possible before and for which…
AI Copilots and the Future of Knowledge Work with Microsoft's Kevin Scott
- ▶ 21:34 Kevin Scott It's like, don't, don't be the, yeah, the AI, quote, moral equivalent of the fart app, uh, you know, fart apps that were flooding the app store, uh, like just because the thing is, has become possible doesn't mean that it's useful.
Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 26:17 Salim Ismail Apple's interface to its app store developers or Uber to its drivers.
The Challenge of Replicating Reality with Steve Zhao from SandboxVR
- ▶ 9:12 Steph Smith I mean, I feel like as I was growing up, it was so rare for people to, for example, buy an app in the app store, even if it was 99 cents.
The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 0:16 Steph Smith Today, I talked to A-Six and Z consumer partner, Olivia Moore, about what I'm calling the state of the app store. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:57 Olivia Moore So I used an app data source called appfollow.io, and they publish a daily ranking chart where they show the top iOS apps every day, um, based on the Apple app store ranks.
- ▶ 3:18 Olivia Moore Yes, they spent the most number of days at the top in the number one spot on the US App Store.
- ▶ 16:21 Steph Smith A really, really short video, as you said, on TikTok, which seems to be a place where people are getting these viral hits, um, and I think it hit number seven or something in the App Store, which maybe people are like, oh, number seven's…
- ▶ 22:25 Steph Smith Maybe would you say there's an argument to people focusing more on that given the state of the app store?
- ▶ 32:05 Olivia Moore There's an opportunity to kind of optimize your keywords in the app store if they're searching for things like widgets, to run lower cost ads, to do, you know, TikTok videos.
- ▶ 46:45 Olivia Moore But an app specifically to track your Squishmallow collection broke into the top 200 on the app store, which was incredible.
- ▶ 53:39 Olivia Moore It, it plays out in the data too, as well as kind of just the eyeballing the app store charts and, and seeing where things come from. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:49 Steph Smith Um, and there are a few others that we've discussed, but if you, Olivia, having maybe one of the best understandings of what's happening in this app store, if you were tasked 2 times in the scene
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 1:08:19 Balaji Srinivasan Billions of people with smartphones, and they've got experience with Instagram, and you've got the app store, and you've got this, and you've got that. 2 times in the scene
Founding Stories: Synapse
- ▶ 41:40 Sanket Pathak Yeah, I think it's like very similar to, um, the Apple App Store. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree?
- ▶ 1:37 Steven Sinofsky That's a sort of a vanity number because it includes subscriptions to apps in the App Store, but because Apple gets a cut, at least for year one, it's, it's a relevant number.
- ▶ 5:13 Benedict Evans I mean, there's, there's something that sort of intrigues me here that for a long time, you would look at the App Store and the 30%, and people would say, Apple is one doing X and Y and Z I don't like on the App Store, and they're doing it… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:36 Benedict Evans Well, it goes into P to P payments using cash or it goes into the app store or you spend it.
Network Effects: Categories & Debates (2 of 3)
- ▶ 6:54 unnamed speaker But they've also got the app store, which is a kind of two-sided, highly defensible marketplace.
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 32:02 Chris Dixon And so then, and I think the history has been that you, the, the lull is due to the fact that now, you know, the iPhone is 2007, the app store, 2008.
a16z Podcast | Space -- the Near Frontier
- ▶ 11:34 Martin Casado Like every platform company that comes in is the new iPhone and they're gonna make the app store, et cetera.
a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- ▶ 10:27 Benedict Evans And I mentioned the fallacy earlier of people thinking that revenue from the app store matters to Apple, right?
a16z Podcast | Companies, Networks, Crowds
- ▶ 7:16 Andrew McAfee (Andy) He did not want to open up the app store to any outside developers. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | QR. AR. VR.
- ▶ 2:13 Kyle Russell Um, it's, like, baked into your profile picture, so is basically what's changed the fact that instead of needing this kind of random arbitrary utility app that you have to hunt down the app store, it's just
a16z Podcast | The Why, How, and When of PR
- ▶ 16:54 Margit Wennmachers You are not going to announce it until the thing is in the app store and people can actually use it.
a16z Podcast | We Gotta Talk Pokémon Go
- ▶ 5:22 Kyle Russell Um, you know, you can imagine, like, in the same way that there's, like, a Spider-Man game that's based on that that's done pretty well, um, that I, Pokemon could have just been slapped onto that, and it would have, you know, taken off on…
- ▶ 18:13 Kyle Russell If you look at the top of the Apple App Store right now, in the top five, there's an app where people playing the game can say, oh, I spotted this particular Pokemon at this spot so that other players can know where they want to go, where…
a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
- ▶ 6:16 Alex Rampell So right now, the number two app in the app store as of June 15th is the Chick-fil-A app, which was kind of brilliant because it's very, very expensive to get millions of people to download an app. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond
- ▶ 20:49 Benedict Evans It's like, problem, the app store has two million things in it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:22 Chris Messina If you are a business trying to figure out which platform to build on and all you hear are about apps in the app store and you need an app to go out there.
- ▶ 27:19 Benedict Evans Is that the app store?
a16z Podcast | Apple Has Lock on Luxury Smartphones, But Not Business of TV
- ▶ 18:03 Benedict Evans Now there's an SDK, there's an App Store, um, so you can have games on it, you can have TV apps on it, um, but they haven't changed the commercial model of TV.
a16z Podcast | When Software Eats Cars
- ▶ 18:37 Benedict Evans It's like that app that, um, there was an app in the early days of the app store that cost 5000 dollars, and it just said, I am rich.
a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
- ▶ 5:36 Mohsen Malayeri And the third one is, is, uh, Android, uh, Apple store place with more than fifteen million users right now.
a16z Podcast | Tech Trends Changing Gaming
- ▶ 9:30 Herman Narula I mean, these are people that have used the iPhone store, right?
a16z Podcast | Messaging is the Medium
- ▶ 9:36 Benedict Evans That is to say you have the web browser and then you have native apps in part combination with the App Store.
a16z Podcast | Searching for Mobile's Third OS
- ▶ 17:38 Kurt McMaster And neither Google or Apple are really doing anything to embrace these other than the fact that they offer the App Store and the people's the ability to download these applications.
a16z Podcast | Technology and the Opening of Myanmar
- ▶ 25:44 unnamed speaker And like, you know, Apple store.
a16z Podcast | The Topic That's Lasted the Entire History of Computing -- Bundling and Unbundling
- ▶ 15:40 Steven Sinofsky That there are very few apps in, in either of the major app stores that have never been used, and even the ones that have used 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Micro and Macro of Mobile
- ▶ 0:10 Michael Copeland It's always a busy week in the mobile world, but there is plenty to cover on both a micro and a macro level, so I want to, I want you to suss it out for us, and maybe let's start with Apple and its app store revenue. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:49 Benedict Evans Because enterprise products do not get, you know, you can't outfit General Electric with 250,000 tablets and migrate all their apps onto tablets by saying, well, great, go to your local app store.
- ▶ 16:22 Benedict Evans The App Store deal, the App Store numbers speak to part of that.
a16z Podcast | Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes)
- ▶ 27:11 Benedict Evans And the answer is not, well, we'll delete the App Store, and we'll, like, remove the ability to run native code, and we'll turn it back into a web browser.
- ▶ 29:51 Benedict Evans That's all been moved into a software layer that lives in Google, in the App Store, and that can get updated automatically over the app.
a16z Podcast | Searching for Mobile’s Own PageRank
- ▶ 8:40 Benedict Evans I meant that I went to the App Store and initiated a downloaded package of Objective-C code.
a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
- ▶ 23:23 Benedict Evans The answer is that Google will do better search or deep linking or any of these initiatives is the answer, but clearly we lack an answer, and we lack an answer also in a much, much more complex world because, as I said, it's not just about…
What's Next in Consumer Startups?
- ▶ 7:27 Andrew Chen And this was so successful that ultimately the app became the most downloaded free app on both the app store iOS and also Google play for Android.
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2015
- ▶ 13:53 Benedict Evans And then if you look at App Store revenue, you see that Apple devices contribute about two-thirds of all the revenue, and Android devices one-third. 2 times in the scene