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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where iPhone comes up
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future
- ▶ 4:44 Marc Andreessen So this is one of those things in our business that you deal with a lot, which is because, you know, you find yourself, you know, these entrepreneurs come in, and they pitch an idea, and you kind of feel like you should draw a judgment on… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
- ▶ 4:33 Marc Andreessen So, really, the iPhone probably is the... 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:23 Marc Andreessen Well, I agree with all that, but I would also say, even with what you just said, even that, like, yes, the Alto, but like, also, like, look, Apple made the iPhone, right?
a16z Podcast | From Jobs to Flying Cars
- ▶ 19:40 Marc Andreessen And then the iPhone mainstream, you know, seven.
a16z Podcast | Investing in (Business and Career) Change
- ▶ 4:36 Marc Andreessen As long as the iPhone doesn't get too popular, right?
- ▶ 26:02 Marc Andreessen My big breakthrough, actually, over, over the holidays was, um, it's in my pocket, the, the wireless Bluetooth headsets now have gotten so good, they're so small, and they sound great, and the battery lasts forever, and so now I just load… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
- ▶ 8:48 Marc Andreessen Like the, the, the online world, smartphones and iPhones and email and like all these snapchat, all these things are just too useful.
a16z Podcast | Startups as Science Experiments -- Can VC Disrupt Academia?
- ▶ 22:10 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, so, you know, like, there's this breakthrough new iPhone app now, right, where it literally, you just point the camera at a printed page, and it, like, reads you the page.
a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1
- ▶ 1:27 Marc Andreessen Um, and then, you know, starting in 2007, with the iPhone, the smartphone comes out, and the smartphone finally packages computers in a form where everybody on the planet can have one.
- ▶ 12:19 Marc Andreessen Um, and I, you know, iPhone is going to do it, and Android is going to do it.
- ▶ 16:06 Marc Andreessen Um, it took 10 years to get, you know, to the, to the iPhone, to the, to the actual product people want.