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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.