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Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show Jul 21, 2026 · 1 mention

Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show Apr 7, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:00 Balaji Srinivasan Yes, I think they can get disrupted, but I'm not sure that it's like, uh, I don't think it's quite like, oh, everybody on Blackberry is going to die because iOS is taking over.

The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models Jan 19, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:58 Alex Rampell Whereas I think mobile, like, most people thought Blackberry was great, iPhone was stupid.

Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire Oct 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:37 Ben Horowitz You know, although the, you know, the history of the computing industry has kind of been a story of kind of a back and forth in that, you know, there was the Wang word processor, and then the personal computer, and the Blackberry before…

The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail May 25, 2023 · 8 mentions

The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan Nov 16, 2022 · 1 mention

We Don't All Need to Learn to Code Jan 9, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:01 David Ulevitch Remember it had no keyboard, and, like, Steve Ballmer was making fun of it, and the guys that were making the, the Blackberry said nobody would ever use the iPhone for anything serious.

What's Next for the Internet? Dec 19, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:11 Chris Dixon So the early smartphones, you had Sidekick and Blackberry and Trio, and there was sort of, 2 times in the scene

Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019) May 8, 2019 · 6 mentions

a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future Feb 26, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:41 Qasar Younis And I can kind of extrapolate that maybe this Blackberry will be cheaper, but it's very hard to really extrapolate.
  • ▶ 7:19 Qasar Younis Blackberry had, uh, was like, well, there's no way this is, this is gonna, this is gonna be actually a real thing.

Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs Feb 24, 2019 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 33:59 Frank Chen Yeah, so I think we need to take people back to that era, right, because this seems super counterintuitive that you'd put all 20 people on one project, and so the, take us back in time, so the most popular phone at the time was the, the… 4 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:35 Benedict Evans Black, even BlackBerry was selling phones with capacity of multi-tired screens. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement? Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:04 Benedict Evans It's been interesting watching Apple's sort of positioning around health because there was a sort of, there was a point where you kind of look to this and you thought, well, I understand what they mean, but it does sound a bit like…

a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:50 Steven Sinofsky Like, and we think about disruption and we think about the BlackBerry and the company just going away overnight because of the iPhone and stuff, but it turns out if you actually look at IBM, the next 20 years were incredibly profitable for…

a16z Podcast | The Curious Case of the OpenTable IPO Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

a16z Podcast | QR. AR. VR. Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:39 Kyle Russell You know, like, uh, 10 years ago, the discussion about the switch from Blackberries with physical keyboards to the iPhone with touch, I was a little bit slower, and all the complaints people had.

a16z Podcast | Selling to Developers & Open Source Business Models Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:42 Martin Casado If I look at Android, even though that wasn't a standalone independent company, you know, Palm and, and Blackberry and iPhone created this massive market.

a16z Podcast | Your Worst Deeds Don’t Define You -- Life and Redemption in Prison Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:16 Shaka Senghor Um, and she was like, no, I think you should just start off with this little Blackberry.

a16z Podcast | Things Come Together -- Truths about Tech in Africa Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 18:32 Alan Knott Craig And we say in our networks that Blackberry is a massive chunk of the market. 3 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Nobody Discusses Work Software Outside of Work -- and Then There’s Slack Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:36 Stuart Butterfield But, I, I was on IRC in, in 1993, I was on ICQ in 1909, or whatever that was, um, had a Blackberry early on, Messenger, so for, for me and for almost everyone here, messaging as an application of the Internet and as an application of…

a16z Podcast | The Best Way To Be Smart ... Is To Not Be Stupid Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:11 Tren Griffin What built your network effects can disappear in an extraordinary, you know, you just take the, the Blackberry, uh, uh, you know, sort of rise and fall.

a16z Podcast | Apple Watch -- Looking for New Things Done in New Ways Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:57 Steven Sinofsky Otherwise, like, I, it's not, the watch is, is not a, it's actually a surprisingly good consumption tool, considering the form factor, and I, I remember I tweeted, like, it feels like the first time I got a Blackberry.

a16z Podcast | Searching for Mobile's Third OS Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:35 unnamed speaker I mean, Nokia, Blackberry, you know, Samsung, like really, they should probably not be building any software because they're really good at hardware.
  • ▶ 18:48 unnamed speaker And I mean, I think one, another way to think about it is like those, those ones that we mentioned, Blackberry, 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | The Technology is Ready, So Where is the Internet of Things? Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 10:08 Zal Bilimoria You know, there's, there's security, there's convenience, there's energy savings, and I think there's a cost savings element, which, which I know that you're interested in this space, in terms of, like, maybe there's an industrial or… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:35 Zal Bilimoria Uh, again, Blackberry launched another, uh, platform yesterday for the car.

a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:38 Benedict Evans There's the old questions and the new questions, and the old questions are things like, what's going to happen to BlackBerry? 3 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Selling Tech to Everyone -- Changes Everything Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:59 Benedict Evans I mean, the other interesting strand here is that, you know, right now there are, as it might be, three billion people online, and there's probably about, there'll, by the end of this year, there'll be two billion iOS and Android…

a16z Podcast | Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes) Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:51 Benedict Evans If you look at India or Indonesia or any of those kinds of markets, it's all BlackBerry and Nokia converting very quickly to iPhone.

a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:12 Benedict Evans And Windows Phone and BlackBerry are locked off the bottom end of that. 2 times in the scene
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