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Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed) Dec 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:50 Alex Rampell Um, like, there's no version of the, the famous Steve Ballmer clip of, like, him saying this, nobody's gonna buy an 800 dollar phone with no keyboard.

Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a $100 Billion Business Oct 15, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:42 Ben Horowitz Cause like in the whole Gates and Balmer era, they were never that good a partner to anybody.

We Don't All Need to Learn to Code Jan 9, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:01 David Ulevitch Remember it had no keyboard, and, like, Steve Ballmer was making fun of it, and the guys that were making the, the Blackberry said nobody would ever use the iPhone for anything serious.

a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future Feb 26, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?) Feb 26, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:37 Jeff Jordan Meg, Scott Cook, and Brian Sweetie and Steve Ballmer were all at P&G together.

a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:41 Sonal Chokshi It's funny that you brought up the sort of fringe phase of open source, because besides Microsoft acquiring GitHub, recently IBM announced acquiring Red Hat, and I think it's so fascinating, because even with Microsoft, I think Steve…

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

a16z Podcast | Platforming the Future Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:38 Benedict Evans You told Steve Ballman to be less greedy and look, look at Microsoft now, you know, it's.

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

  • ▶ 26:35 Reed Hastings And he would say, come on, it, like, barely runs, and that's what, in frustration, made him, um, be incredibly dismissive, so that comment that he made will define one part of his career, like Steve Ballmer's iPhone, you know, uh,… 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Mellody Hobson and Ben Horowitz Talk Investing, Career, and Star Wars! Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

a16z Podcast | Virtual Reality v Augmented Reality, and What's Next Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:33 Peter Rubin It's, it's, it's hard to say because, you know, since Nadella came in and took over from Ballmer, I think it's possible that the original roadmap has changed, and

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

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

  • ▶ 5:33 Benedict Evans So here you have iPhone unit sales, and you know, the first three data points here are proving Steve Ballmer right when he said it wouldn't sell anything at 700 dollars.

Culture and Revolution Jul 16, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:06 Ben Horowitz Steve Ballmer used to go to see, like, CIOs, and he'd go, are you going to buy from me or from Google?

Mobile Is Eating the World, 2015 Jul 15, 2017 · 1 mention

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