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Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence
- ▶ 2:26 Justin Johnson We can literally stick like three cameras on tri, three iPhones on tripods, um, use these to take sort of a video of something happening. 2 times in the scene
Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
- ▶ 17:27 Gavin Baker To an iPhone and an iPad and like, you know, get them used to it.
The State of AI: Models, Moats, and the Consumer Renaissance
- ▶ 29:00 Anish Acharya People want to try new apps, but unlike the 99 cents days, they're willing to pay 200 a month, so it's sort of a renaissance for consumer builders, and
Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
The Nuclear Renaissance - Radiant | a16z American Dynamism
- ▶ 7:08 unnamed speaker When you're building a commercial product, you have to have the same desire to lower customer friction as Apple did with the iPhone.
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 0:41 Qasar Younis Our vision for that is a high school kid that can make iPhone apps should be able to make autonomous systems.
- ▶ 37:34 Qasar Younis There was a huge, like, and then it, it comes and we, by, by oh seven from the iPhone launch, like it's like four years when you get Uber, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat.
- ▶ 50:26 Qasar Younis Our, uh, you know, vision for that is, and the delivery robot is a great example, is like a high school kid or a middle schooler, they can make iPhone apps. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:51 Qasar Younis I mean, I, I, I, you guys remember like the early iPhone apps that hits were like the beer one or the fart app.
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 10:52 Benedict Evans And on the other hand, if you had flat rate data, which is kind of what happened in the US with the iPhone, the AT&T launches, AT&T singular launch the iPhone with flat rate data. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:48 Benedict Evans And, you know, in particular, I remember, you know, by sort of 15 years ago, a lot of really, really clever people in tech looked at the iPhone and Android and said, you know, this is open versus closed again. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:36 Benedict Evans No more than, like, Microsoft or Apple could build every Windows app or every iPhone app.
- ▶ 27:20 Benedict Evans Um, and then the third level, which is, I think, and I probably should have said this earlier, the way that all of this is sort of fundamentally different from previous platform shifts, is that with, you know, three G or the iPhone or the…
- ▶ 59:42 Benedict Evans In fact, I'm also doing it with my iPhone, so my iPhone is streaming to my Mac over Wi-Fi streaming video here, and it, like, it just works.
Goldman Sachs Chairman on Why Finance Adopts AI Differently | a16z
- ▶ 28:39 Lloyd Blankfein I'm telling you, the original iPhone looks like an old product to me.
Why Claude Feels Different (And What That Means for AI) | The a16z Show
- ▶ 3:59 unnamed speaker Obviously in the last 20 years with, with respect to iPhone and whatnot, but man, in the last two, three, four years, holy shit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:43 unnamed speaker They've made a beautiful little tool and when paired with like a, a thing in your pocket that is also crafted and artisan with Apple and iPhone and, and then you get this like really magical, intelligent experience on your device, wherever…
- ▶ 27:48 unnamed speaker They're using the same goddamn iPhone.
Box CEO on the AI Adoption Gap | The a16z Show
- ▶ 10:38 Martin Casado Like, literally, like, seven apps on her iPhone, there's seven SaaS apps.
- ▶ 10:44 Aaron Levie Well, but the, but the seven apps on the iPhone is, is a, is a issue of humans don't want to learn these things over and over again,
How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer | Alex Blania on a16z
- ▶ 10:01 Alex Blania Um, and you know, with a new iPhone, you can have meaningful amount of trust against that, but with old Android phones basically not. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:09 Ben Horowitz Did you ever think about, uh, I don't know, this is probably a terrible idea, but, um, having kind of different levels, like, we know you're a unique human, or like, hey, this guy may be a unique human, because he's done it on his iPhone,…
AI Markets: Deep Dive with a16z's David George
- ▶ 29:27 David George Like iPhone is the classic case of this. 2 times in the scene
The Biggest Bottlenecks For AI: Energy & Cooling
- ▶ 5:45 David George You know, the examples I always give are like, you know, what, what is your iPhone cost? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:00 David George Like, like if, if, if, you know, like they, they don't know that I'm willing to pay more and they can't charge me more than, you know, the other user, uh, of an iPhone.
The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 41:39 Alex Rampell When it came out, there was no iPhone and no GPS transponder in every device. 2 times in the scene
Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
- ▶ 14:22 Marc Andreessen Nobody ever asked for an iPhone.
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 10:29 Marc Andreessen And, and, and people actually forget the original iPhone dropped in 2007.
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 12:58 Benedict Evans You didn't know what Amazon would become, and you didn't know how Netscape was going to work out, and you didn't know what next year's iPhone was going to be, and 10 years ago when we cared about that, but you kind of knew the physical… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:00 Erik Torenberg I am curious, you know, when we sort of look back at this sort of, you know, platform shift, do you think that there will be another sort of iPhone-esque or Excel-esque product that kind of defines the, the, the feature, the sort of…
- ▶ 36:37 Benedict Evans In fact, this is where we were particularly with the iPhone. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:52 Benedict Evans Maybe you invent the iPhone of AI. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:20 Benedict Evans One of them is I think we forget how enormous the iPhone was and how enormous the internet was.
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- ▶ 32:47 Alex Rampell And of course, Apple corrected that mistake when the iPhone came out, when they did now like Xcode, which is the way that you build products for, um, for Mac products or Macintosh and iPhone, iOS, it's free. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:48 Alex Rampell You could argue it's a feature on top of your iPhone, but no, the iPhone is the delivery mechanism. 3 times in the scene
The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
- ▶ 34:52 Alex Rampell Like, I'm not using him as the, uh, that's why we confiscated his iPhone, right?
Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
- ▶ 0:47 Alex Rampell You benefit from all of these amazing new things like the iPhone.
- ▶ 44:37 Vlad Tenev Right before iPhone came out, right? 2 times in the scene
Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
- ▶ 0:09 Michael Truell I think that one of the key challenges facing the company in the future, and we've faced in the past, is we are in a market that's like, you know, had a iPod moment, and like, it's gonna have an iPhone moment.
- ▶ 26:28 Michael Truell I think that one of the challenges, uh, key challenges facing the company, uh, in the future, and we've faced in the past, is we are going, we are in a market that's like, you know, had a iPod moment, and like, it's gonna have an iPhone… 2 times in the scene
Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- ▶ 7:55 Justine Moore It's funny, I just got a new iPhone, and, um, on the new phone, I got to, to delete a bunch of my old apps, because I like to start fresh.
- ▶ 48:32 Eugenia Kuyda I would hate if, you know, the worst thing with, um, voice and the iPhone is reading out push notifications, text messages that are coming.
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 39:52 Marc Andreessen So it's just like boring and now it's an app on your iPhone and nobody, and nobody, and nobody cares.
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
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 15:10 Keith Rabois Where are we going to be using, you know, your iPhone as your personal computing device five years out?
Will LLMs Get Us To AGI?
- ▶ 18:22 Vishal Misra Uh, it's like the iPhone, you know, with the iPhone came out. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:48 Vishal Misra It's, it's, you know, the iPhone, 1516, 17.
Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
- ▶ 4:55 Ben Horowitz Not, but then the iPhone is also vertically integrated. 2 times in the scene
Opendoor CEO: Building the Amazon for Homes
- ▶ 23:19 Alex Rampell It's like, would you rather be the richest person in the world in 1900 with no penicillin and no iPhone and no Netflix or a middle lower middle class person in 2025 with penicillin and, you know, Netflix and life.
The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
- ▶ 25:53 Steven Sinofsky And you just take the slightest bit of interest, and they're whipping out a deal book, and they are hungry to not just, like, I talked to a guy last, CES, and CES on my mind, because it's, it registered this week, but, um, he made, uh,… 3 times in the scene
Software is Eating Labor
- ▶ 2:31 Alex Rampell Um, or steamships, you know, there, there were no iPhones back then, so I don't actually have, have a picture of a Roman oarsman, but they probably look like this, and sailboats and steamships obviously made that form of labor much more…
The Person Who Runs HR For 2 Million Federal Workers
- ▶ 41:08 Greg Barbaccia I have an iPhone.
Anduril CEO: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
- ▶ 5:51 Brian Schimpf Uh, I don't think it's gonna start with, you know, making low cost iPhones, but I think starting in defense production, starting in aerospace,
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 45:32 Steven Sinofsky People all, or the iPhone even.
The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI
- ▶ 6:40 Alex Rampell Um, I mean, they're, they're like the poor man's versions of this, which are like, if you have an iPhone, you should get charged more than if you have an Android phone, because like iPhones are more expensive. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:35 Alex Rampell It's like, oh, like, you know, let's charge 1600 dollars for the, uh, for this iPhone, you know, 25 that we're gonna come out with that has 18 cameras.
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 3:03 Chris Dixon So if you go back and look pre iPhone, you know, mobile phones were pretty junky and limited in capability and didn't have, you know, touch screens and, and had poor performance. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:24 Chris Dixon Is a term Steve Jobs used to use with respect to design to talk about how he likes some design, like the original book, bookshelf app, book app on the iPhone had like grainy, grainy stuff on the background design that kind of took, or the…
Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?
- ▶ 47:44 Leo Polovets Where you start with, you know, like no buttons on the iPhone, or you got like Uber instead of taxi, it's a stranger driving.
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- ▶ 10:05 Steven Sinofsky And, and, or now cloud, and so all of these things, you know, Steve Jobs, like, put up a, a slide at the iPhone launch of mobile phone share, but he very deliberately chose to measure it by the manufacturer of phones so that it diminished…
- ▶ 11:39 Balaji Srinivasan It's actually Eric Schmidt's also talked to us, but basically, um, you know, for example, when the iPhone came out, people didn't think of it as a competitor in terms of, uh, being a camera, but it was one of the most popular cameras… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:03 Steven Sinofsky So when we built the iPhone and the platform for the iPhone, including the app store, we actually were like, we whiteboarded out and we deliberately said, well, we're going to constrain the API so that apps can't steal information from…
Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption
- ▶ 51:07 Aaron Levie Did the iPhone show up in GDP? 3 times in the scene
Crypto Experts Explain Stablecoins & the Future Financial System w/ Ali Yahya & Arianna Simpson
- ▶ 12:40 Erik Torenberg They asked before that, kind of, what's the iPhone moment?
Former Microsoft Executive Explains Where We Are in the AI Cycle w/ Anish Acharya & Steven Sinofsky
- ▶ 22:45 Steven Sinofsky But then, um, C++ came along, and there were 50 languages in the middle that people don't talk about, like Objective-C being one of them, that was the, the iPhone language, which was really one Steve Jobs.
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 0:06 Steven Sinofsky Apple would just argue there was no way we could even have started the iPhone anywhere else.
- ▶ 34:15 Steven Sinofsky So the point of no return was basically, I would say, two years into the iPhone, the scale was such, there was nowhere else. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:57 Steven Sinofsky I don't like the idea that, that the people who are very much in favor of this global world sort of ignore inherent risks of the polarized world, but also just immediately jump to no one's gonna pay 5000 dollars for an iPhone. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:53 Erik Torenberg Because, you know, nine out of 10, um, I think high schoolers, um, you know, prefer Apple products, so if you, sort of, when they get to college, when they graduate, like, why isn't, sort of, iPhone market share much bigger?
AI is Revolutionizing Web Security - Bots, Agents, & Real-Time Defense
- ▶ 15:09 David Mytton If you're in the Apple ecosystem and using Safari on, on iPhone or on Mac, then there is a way to authenticate that the request is coming from an individual who has a subscription to iCloud and Apple has their own fraud analysis to allow…
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 5:49 Marc Andreessen It was really when the iPhone was kind of hitting critical mass.
Hey Tech, Come to Healthcare
- ▶ 22:58 Vijay Pande So like would like Motorola have created the iPhone or something like that?
Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software
- ▶ 34:17 Marc Andreessen But IBM actually released something that actually looks a lot like an iPhone in 1987. 2 times in the scene
What Is an AI Agent?
- ▶ 29:57 Guido Appenzeller My iPhone, the photos are not accessible via any API because it's a walled garden.
Biotech CEO on where we are in the fight to cure cancer
- ▶ 21:29 Jonathan Lim I put my iPhone in the drawer.
How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next
- ▶ 1:05:38 Marc Andreessen And you say, I was just talking about it, you go to the Gucci store, you know, to buy your scarf, you go to the Apple store to buy your iPhone.
JD Vance on the Future of America
- ▶ 10:50 J.D. Vance You would open an iPhone box and it would say designed in Cupertino, California.
Ben Horowitz on Leadership and Culture
- ▶ 20:12 Ben Horowitz So, you know, there was, ah, you know, microwave, and the transistor, and then there was, you know, the PC, and local area, the mainframe, and, and SNA, and the PC, and local area networks, and the iPhone, and the internet, or the…
The Dual-Use Founder: Vets Now Building For America
- ▶ 19:51 unnamed speaker And, uh, you can't just have people who are, you know, they wanted to build iPhone games 2 times in the scene
Drone Warfare: The New Rules of Combat Are Here
Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI
- ▶ 1:31:50 Anjney Midha Was so powerful about, you know, the iPhone was built by a fairly small team.
What DeepSeek Means For The Future Of AI | Tech Veterans Weigh In
- ▶ 27:03 Steven Sinofsky And like not, it was like the size of an iPhone icon.
Mastering Your Data with Sajith Wickramasekara
- ▶ 5:39 Sajith Wickramasekara Um, I think people very much, these are all the same people who have iPhones and other consumer apps, and there's technology in all other facets of their life.
Implementation, Data, Impact of Healthcare AI with Julie and Vijay
- ▶ 29:48 Vijay Pande You look at computers 20 years ago, like iPhone didn't exist, like the internet was barely out, you know, it was a 2004, like the world was very different.
Mark Casey (Capital Group): Public Market and Macro Perspectives
- ▶ 20:32 Mark Casey You know, you can usually pencil out the size of an industry, like, when the iPhone came around, if you said, wow, this is the future, and every adult's gonna have one, you could've done some envelope math and said, okay, there's eight…
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…
Safety in Numbers: Keeping AI Open
- ▶ 20:45 Arthur Mensch Uh, so generally speaking, uh, just the community is super eager to just take the model and add new capabilities, put it on the laptop, uh, put it on a, on an iPhone. 2 times in the scene
Big Ideas 2024: The Consumer AI Battleground Moves from Model to UX with Alex Immerman
- ▶ 16:02 Alex Immerman Beyond that, much like Uber and Snapchat could not have been predicted when the iPhone came out, we don't know what gen AI will bring, but we're excited.
Redefining Partnership with Adam Neumann
- ▶ 8:01 Adam Neumann He then worked in Netflix and was in charge of moving them to the iPhone and to the phone, so he saw that transition, and his last job was at Meta for WhatsApp.
The Calculus of Success
- ▶ 6:51 Anarupa Ganguly And then I would say with, with respect to Apple's, um, announcement, what they've now done is taken a lot of the standard text interfaces and UI that we are so comfortable with using our iPhones, using our laptops and made it spatialized.
Dunking in VR: Inside the Future of Sports
- ▶ 6:14 unnamed speaker Something that just integrates into your daily life the way that an iPhone might, or the way that, you know, uh, you know, your computer and watching Netflix might.
What is the Future of Hollywood?
- ▶ 1:55:08 Marc Andreessen You know, the iPhone 2007, like the iPhone in 2007 and the iPhone today, they basically look, you know, they look exactly the same. 2 times in the scene
Leveling Up with Roblox's David Baszucki
- ▶ 18:59 David Baszucki So our, our thesis has been that just as when the iPhone shipped and all of a sudden we had to the HTML consumable on a small screen rather than a large screen with the pinch and zoom. 2 times in the scene
Are Autonomous Vehicles Finally Here? Buckle up!
- ▶ 17:07 Saswat Panigrahi Right now the iPhones have LiDARs, right?
Evolve or Die: The Future of the Creative Process, Artist Authenticity, and the Value of the Music
- ▶ 28:40 Piff Marti But I have an iPhone. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:37 Doug E. Fresh If I had an iPhone back when I was a kid in the nineties, and there was
- ▶ 42:30 Doug E. Fresh They upload it to the, to the DSPs, they take their iPhone, shoot their own video, upload it to YouTube, and get it poppin'.
AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
- ▶ 1:03:50 Marc Andreessen Microsoft thinks about PCs, or Apple thinks about iPhones, or Intel thinks about chips, or Google thinks about search, or Facebook thinks about social, or the Coca-Cola company thinks about Coca-Cola, or Tesla thinks about cars.
Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants with Carl Pei
- ▶ 9:13 Carl Pei So the iPhone is much boxier than before, but it also cascades into their other products, the iMac, the
- ▶ 10:57 unnamed speaker Yeah, I mean, every startup has to find their wedge, and to your point, Apple itself, the iPhone used to be a more niche phone, catering to a more niche audience, and now they have to cater to literally everyone.
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