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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.