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Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders Aug 11, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 36:06 Garry Tan Like, I think that, you know, I think about my time at Microsoft and it's like, I remember getting an iPod and like doing, um, competitive research for Windows Mobile versus the iPod. 2 times in the scene

Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI Nov 10, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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…

Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie Sep 24, 2025 · 2 mentions

Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem Jun 18, 2025 · 2 mentions

Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants with Carl Pei Apr 6, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:24 unnamed speaker Apple, if you think about, like, the iPhone that I own today has pretty much the same interface as the iPod Touch I had when I was, like, 10.
  • ▶ 31:55 Carl Pei I think their breakthrough moment was with the iPod.

The Art and Science of Podcasting with Sriram and Aarthi Mar 20, 2023 · 3 mentions

a16z Podcast: Best Clips of 2022 Dec 27, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 27:51 Steve Wozniak We got to Steve jobs, his apple too, was really the iPod music music. 4 times in the scene

Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above Nov 9, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 19:57 Steve Wozniak And then there was some, um, you know, some of that invention stuff we got to Steve jobs is apple too, was really the iPod music, music. 4 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 18:38 Ken Kocienda Now, uh, interestingly, when I, when I joined, uh, Apple in, in June of 2001, uh, Mac OS X had come out, and so we had that two-part product matrix that we were still working in, and that was still four months before the announcement of…
  • ▶ 47:37 Ken Kocienda So, if you remember how Steve introduced the product, he, uh, he said, uh, you know, give his, you know, very dramatic introduction, you know, he said that something to the effect of, well, uh, we've got, you know, a groundbreaking…
  • ▶ 53:15 Ken Kocienda It's a touch screen iPod. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:01 Brian McCullough Where would, if Apple launches the iPod, how does that eventually gain traction other than being something that then if Napster is popularized is just, you know, an accessory to Napster, right?

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

a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Cities -- Analogies Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:15 Dennis Nazarov You know, we only see it when it works, that there's the genius, there's the genius iPod product, there's the genius iPhone product, but, you know, how many, what, how many hundreds of products did the Apple team iterate, you know,

a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment? Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:03 Darshan Shankar It's kind of like the difference between setting up a home theater system and just plugging in headphones into an iPod.

a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization' Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:41 Reed Hastings But again, if you think about Apple, what they really did with the iPod is combine fashion and technology.

a16z Podcast | Startups, Pivots, Culture, and Timing (Oh Shit!) Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:10 Jason Rosenthal As the story goes, Jobs killed them all except for one that became the iMac, and that kind of sort of worked, and then from there came, uh, you know, the new PowerBooks that worked a little bit better, and then OSX, and then the iPod, and…

a16z Podcast | Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:33 Steven Sinofsky I mean, if you remember the Apple iPod ads where the silhouetted figure is dancing with a white, like, so what's the silhouette?
  • ▶ 25:38 Steven Sinofsky We have to be careful about that because had we been doing this podcast nine years ago, we wouldn't have been sitting around looking at the iPod saying, wow, more storage, a different click wheel.

a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution? Jan 2, 2019 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 21:10 Alex Rampell And Google initially, like the iPhone was an iPod with a radio transmitter.
  • ▶ 35:58 Alex Rampell And I think that the best way of thinking about this is really the iPod. 7 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:01 Benedict Evans I mean, it reminds me, I was on a, um, I remember, like, in, I think, 2002 or three, talking to the CTO of Motorola, and he was talking about how hard it was to put a hard disk into a mobile phone to compete with the iPod, because, you…
  • ▶ 19:17 Benedict Evans And at the same time, Apple, of course, and they're not putting, they're not thinking about hard disk, so putting Flash to make the iPod Nano.

a16z Podcast | The Fundamentals of Security and the Story of Tanium’s Growth Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:51 Ben Horowitz Right, right, and so if the current market is twenty billion dollars and it's essentially broken, like the products don't work, you've got, ah, many vendors involved and so forth, does the market get bigger, um, because you actually solved…

a16z Podcast | A Podcast about Podcasts Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:50 John Markoff You take a microprocessor, and you combine it with a music player, and you've got an iPod.

a16z Podcast | Apple Gets Its Music Streaming and Gives News Another Try Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:09 Benedict Evans You know, on, in one level they created this, it's sort of multiple stages of irony here, because on one level they were perfectly aware that smartphones were going to kill the iPod, and that's one of the reasons why creating the iPhone…

a16z Podcast | For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:37 Benedict Evans That all your music was in DRM, DRM, it was encoded in a certain way, or, you know, it was a pain to switch from device to device, to switch from an iPod to something else or back again.

a16z Podcast | What the Apple Watch Is -- and Isn't Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:42 Michael Copeland It's interesting because, you know, what you describe, Apple has done this amazing job of creating these objects of desire, um, in the end, like we all wanted an iPhone, we all wanted an iPod when they came out.

a16z Podcast | Mobile is Eating the World (and Apple is Gobbling Fastest) Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Apple Takes on Payments and Your Wrist Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

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

  • ▶ 12:28 Benedict Evans Which is what, you know, nine, tens of people who are watching the event said it was just a big iPod touch, what a stupid idea.
  • ▶ 13:04 Benedict Evans So you kind of look at it and you think, is this like, is this the iPod, iPad mistake that you kind of looked at it, and you didn't understand how much it changed things, and you have to have it in your hand and use it before you'll…

a16z Podcast | When Your PC Expires, What's Next? Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:38 Benedict Evans Well, this is a really funny thing that when the iPad came out, people were saying, the critics said, oh, it's just a big iPod touch. 3 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | The Future Of Television Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

Cryptonetworks and Cities: Analogies Jul 26, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:18 unnamed speaker There's the genius, there's the genius iPod product, there's the genius iPhone product, but, you know, how many, what, how many hundreds of products did the Apple team iterate, you know, whatever the Johnny Ives office, the white box that…

10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now) Dec 5, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:45 Benedict Evans You see the same thing for the iPod, which took almost five years to work, an overnight success that took five years.
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