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How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation
- ▶ 26:09 Steven Sinofsky Um, so, uh, Kane wrote the book, but it's with Catmull who, at Pixar, and with Daniel Lewin, who was at, at Steve's super good friend and was also at Microsoft.
- ▶ 48:33 Steven Sinofsky But read the, um, read the Exile, Steve Jobs in Exile book, because you, you can, you really get a sense for like building up.
Why Every Founder Needs a Story | Replit CEO on a16z
- ▶ 12:18 Amjad Masad Actually, Steve Jobs, um, once did this ad, uh, they, they had a, they had a Mac
Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
- ▶ 48:48 Marc Rowan You know, in the Steve Jobs world, they say they mistake the product for the process.
Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- ▶ 38:22 Balaji Srinivasan Like, uh, and maybe a technician role is less or, and, and maybe the Steve Jobs type role is more.
- ▶ 1:03:39 Balaji Srinivasan That's why, you know, like Steve Jobs told Drew Houston, Dropbox is just a feature, right?
Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
- ▶ 49:51 Ben Horowitz You know, like Steve Jobs is a very different kind of guy. 2 times in the scene
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- ▶ 39:15 Erik Torenberg Earlier when you were talking about the feature versus product, didn't Steve Jobs once tell Drew Houston that Dropbox was 3 times in the scene
The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
- ▶ 43:13 Margit Wennmachers All you do is you report your financial results, you announce your new products, and that kind of started to end with Steve Jobs because it was a show. 2 times in the scene
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 46:48 Steven Sinofsky Because, like, it's just, I mean, and you live this, because you, you were like the classic, you know, Steve Jobs said you're a feature.
Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
- ▶ 39:47 unnamed speaker Um, is there anyone akin to a Gwynne Shotwell at SpaceX or previously a Tim Cook to Steve Jobs at Apple that is at NVIDIA today?
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 3:14 Chris Dixon Um, and what, you know, Steve Jobs and Apple's great insight was, was that actually, by the way, the first iPhone also, I, you know, I, I was, I think I was one of the people that bought on the first day.
- ▶ 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…
Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
- ▶ 35:46 Mark Cuban It was always about, you know, Steve Jobs said it best.
Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
- ▶ 23:59 Steven Sinofsky I mean, like, how long did it take for Steve Jobs to get rid of the number buttons on a smartphone?
- ▶ 35:29 Steven Sinofsky There, there's some Steve Jobs
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…
- ▶ 33:26 Balaji Srinivasan And again, once in a while, it's something like, you know, Steve Jobs, Pixar.
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 2:16 Balaji Srinivasan It was like, you know, Steve jobs is there and you know, uh, there, there's actually this article from 20 12 on the Atlantic, like the nerds go marching in, but tech helping to reelect Obama and Facebook was helping.
- ▶ 28:56 Balaji Srinivasan There, there's a scenario where if Steve jobs had lived that when business bought the post, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:09 Balaji Srinivasan There's those who are at the storyline level, and you probably only need, like, one of those per company, you know, because if you have too many very strong will personalities in a company, like, you can only have one Steve Jobs at Apple,…
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
- ▶ 3:09 Steven Sinofsky And I think that's just fascinating, like, 12 different ways, you know, it goes back to the original toaster refrigerator comment, or the iPad is different, or Steve holding the iPad only like th-this because it was a book, and it's just a…
- ▶ 13:58 Steven Sinofsky Then, um, Steve left Apple. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:00 Steven Sinofsky And that was the step when they attached the Windows logo to the PC, something Steve Jobs would never have allowed. 2 times in the scene
Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
- ▶ 18:45 Ben Horowitz If you look at Apple kind of, and what Steve Jobs did in particular when he built the product line, there was no piece of software.
- ▶ 43:03 Marc Andreessen You have to, you know, the old Steve Jobs line is that people who, you know, love software need to build their own hardware.
Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software
- ▶ 34:22 Marc Andreessen And then it took, you know, 20 years of many, many, many companies and people trying to refine that idea before Steve Jobs, you know, finally crystallized into the iPhone.
How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next
- ▶ 3:57 Marc Andreessen You know, all these, um, um, uh, was it, um, uh, Bill Draper, like all the, you know, Arthur Rock, like, you know, these guys for me are like legends, because, you know, they just, you know, the fact that they could go out and source a Bob…
Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI
- ▶ 1:21:14 Anjney Midha Now, of course, Steve Jobs is sort of the canonical example there. 4 times in the scene
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
- ▶ 21:05 Chris Dixon This is a Steve Jobs term, which sort of refers to products and designs that kind of harken back to a prior era to make them more understandable.
Reasoning Models Are Remaking Professional Services
- ▶ 26:14 George Sivulka Um, and ultimately, I think Steve Jobs always talked about computers as bicycles for the mind, right?
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 8:37 Marc Andreessen You know, this is when Steve Jobs was on the cover of Time Magazine.
Competing in a Crowd of Incumbents with Mercury's Immad Akhund
- ▶ 13:48 Immad Akhund Is it Steve Jobs that said that the, you know, if you, if you tell people about what they want in a horse, they say a faster horse, but they won't like tell you about a car. 2 times in the scene
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 57:04 Peter Diamandis If I said to you what made Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos,
The Art and Science of Podcasting with Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 48:12 Sriram Krishnan By the way, if I remember, the original Nawal quote was, somebody asked him in a party, uh, about Steve Jobs, and how would they allow it to be Steve Jobs, and Nawal would tell them, like, Steve Jobs is dead, right? 3 times in the scene
The 1000x Developer with Amjad Masad
- ▶ 21:57 Amjad Masad Alan Kaye quote to Steve Jobs, he told Steve Jobs, if you're serious about making software, you have to make hardware.
Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
- ▶ 15:40 Palmer Luckey Uh, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and other great technology entrepreneurs all had distinct images of the future and how their products would shape it.
Expert AI as a Healthcare Superpower
- ▶ 35:09 Marc Andreessen And augmented intelligence is, you know, another example, the term would be Steve Jobs, a bicycle for your mind, right?
a16z Podcast: Best Clips of 2022
- ▶ 27:28 Steve Wozniak Steve Jobs was very instrumental in always taking us, do what we can do today. 3 times in the scene
The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
- ▶ 1:18:36 Steph Smith And it also reminds me of that famous Steve Jobs quote.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 2:32:58 Balaji Srinivasan So you have Larry Page in Google, you have Zuckerberg in Facebook, you have Steve Jobs in Apple, you have Bill Gates in Microsoft, you have Jeff Bezos in Amazon.
Privateer’s Steve Wozniak, Alex Fielding, and Dr. Moriba Jah on the Data Highway Above
- ▶ 1:01 Steph Smith But I love that he also shared a bunch of personal stories from his days back at Apple, including how him and Steve Jobs thought about iteration on the way to the future, the differences between a visionary, an inventor, and an engineer,…
- ▶ 19:35 Steve Wozniak Um, no, Steve jobs is very instrumental in always taking us do what we can do today. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:28 Steph Smith It reminds me of my favorite Steve Jobs quote, which I know Alex, you had the privilege of, of working alongside him way back in the day is, is I'm going to butcher it, but it's something along the lines of everything that exists around us…
- ▶ 1:17:51 Alex Fielding We've known each other for a long time, but I will say working between him and getting to work with Steve Jobs back, uh, back in my time at Apple,
Explaining AI
- ▶ 9:08 Harry Shum Similarly, and Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, they are founders of those companies.
a16z Podcast | Incenting Innovation Inside, Loonshots to Moonshots
- ▶ 28:56 Sonal Chokshi In the classic Jobsian sense. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:52 Safi Bahcall And this goes back to Steve Jobs' story, is learn to love your artists and soldiers equally. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree?
- ▶ 9:42 Steven Sinofsky The Steve Jobs one, the early Tim Cook ones, and then the most current ones that you could see on the website.
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 6:26 Qasar Younis You know, I think it was, it was Steve Jobs who said, you know, the sixties really happened in the seventies and the iPhone moment really happened in the like, 2012, 2013, right?
- ▶ 26:11 Qasar Younis You know, there's only, you know, you better be Steve Jobs.
a16z Podcast | Gaming Goes Mainstream
- ▶ 1:57 Bobby Kotick And we really thought if Steve Jobs is going to appropriate all the great technology from Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, we should do the same, but do it on a broader scale. 7 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Who's Down with CPG, DTC? (And Micro-Brands Too?)
- ▶ 6:10 Sonal Chokshi That was Steve Jobs
a16z Podcast | Product-Market SALES Fit (What Comes First?)
- ▶ 9:17 Sonal Chokshi Cause I think a lot of founders might argue that, well, why can't I be like Steve jobs and sort of invent, like create the product that people all go to?
- ▶ 31:32 Sonal Chokshi Steve Jobs and the Walter Isaacson biography made the entire team list all the best things that they were learning that they could do.
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 6:31 Ken Kocienda The, the way that Apple worked in this period, uh, during the Steve Jobs era is that he would set this vision. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:11 Frank Chen And then ultimately flash forward, like when Steve announced the browser, 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:25 Frank Chen And was Steve at the demo at that point? 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:56 Ken Kocienda They both reported to Scott Forstall, who was the executive, who reported to Steve. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:25 Ken Kocienda Steve stood up on stage and announced the iPhone in January of 2007. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:40 Ken Kocienda I mean, really, really, you know, at a certain point, Steve was still personally approving every person that, 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:05 Ken Kocienda And so we just decided that, well, you know, it's like, uh, like a Steve way of, of maybe communicating this was, look, this is the greatest product ever, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:53 Frank Chen I'd love to sort of take us into what it was like to demo for Steve. 27 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:51 Ken Kocienda He's like, let me look at the thing. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:06 Frank Chen So obviously if you have a leader like Steve that's that into being able to emulate the user who has great taste, like you want to make this person benevolent design dictator for life, right? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:43 Frank Chen So, there was an example where, um, you were designing an animation, I think it was, sort of, the scrunch zooming demo, and you got to the point where, like, Steve and Scott Forstall actually disagreed. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:05 Frank Chen And do you feel like that slowed decision-making down at all in the org, where basically, we're just gonna wait for Steve to decide, so like, 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:52 Frank Chen So Steve himself is sort of legendary for sort of fusing liberal arts and engineering thinking, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:36 Frank Chen That there be a figure like a Steve Jobs, who has a trusted lieutenant like a Scott Forstall. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:46 Ken Kocienda I, I, I limited myself to the Steve Jobs era, which is now, you know,
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 14:59 Chris Dixon And like, Steve Jobs said the same thing, but like, right in the end, it turns out, like today, that there's like a very little, you know, I mean, there's music piracy, and there's movie piracy, and there's video game piracy, but for the…
a16z Podcast | New Upstarts in an Old Industry
- ▶ 18:41 Ben Horowitz Steve Jobs got fired because he made the product too expensive.
a16z Podcast | What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement?
- ▶ 10:42 Steven Sinofsky When Steve Jobs was running iPods, this is precisely how iPods ran.
a16z Podcast | Seeing into the Future -- Making Decisions, Telling Stories
- ▶ 23:01 Chris Dixon Like this is, I think there's more than, it's more than a coincidence that so many of these, you know, Wozniak and jobs and just a whole bunch, you know, the internet, early internet and all these other things started off as these like…
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Cities -- Analogies
a16z Podcast | Principles and Algorithms for Work and Life
- ▶ 38:04 Sonal Chokshi Steve Jobs, Elon Musk. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Improv'ing Leadership
- ▶ 22:55 Dick Costolo And then Bill Campbell, who is, you know, on the Apple board and worked closely with Steve and Eric Schmidt at Google, and Bill was also like, really no BS, like, how was that?
a16z Podcast | On Morals and Meaning in Products, Business, and Life
- ▶ 17:38 Sonal Chokshi Pretty much everyone in the U.S. who thinks they're an atheist is actually completely religious, but for something different, like Steve Jobs, or a MacBook Pro, or Star Wars.
- ▶ 20:04 Arthur Brooks The reason that Jobs was such an inflecting visionary character was because he believed in latent demand. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Internet of Taste, Streaming Content to Culture
- ▶ 24:41 Marc Andreessen David Fincher is like, I don't know, maybe, I don't know, like the Steve Jobs or something.
a16z Podcast | Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
- ▶ 26:49 Steven Sinofsky Basically, you, and you know, Apple, at that demo, Steve Jobs went through a lot of length to talk about how to use a DVD player, or actually a CD-ROM at the time, and it was like Air CD or Air Drive or something.
a16z Podcast | From Mind at Play to Making the Information Age
- ▶ 26:34 Steven Sinofsky At one point, he ends up meeting Steve Jobs. 10 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Curious Case of the OpenTable IPO
- ▶ 10:16 Sonal Chokshi Steve Jobs take Pixar public. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Addiction vs Popularity in the Age of Virality
- ▶ 26:07 Derek Thompson And I think about this also with like the movie, Steve jobs.
a16z Podcast | Companies, Networks, Crowds
- ▶ 7:10 Andrew McAfee (Andy) The compliments are so tricky that they actually tripped up Steve Jobs really badly. 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
- ▶ 25:27 Sonal Chokshi Well, what I'm hearing is the next Steve jobs will be the Steve jobs of an open source company because it's a great CEO, great product guy, great business. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
- ▶ 11:30 Marc Andreessen You know, it's funny, it's almost the reverse of what Apple did, what Steve Jobs did with the Macintosh, where he, he had the same issue, the Apple II dominated the business,
a16z Podcast | Startups, Pivots, Culture, and Timing (Oh Shit!)
- ▶ 1:42 Sonal Chokshi When I think of building startups, I think of the sort of Jobsian narrative of like, you have this vision and a product, and you have this incredible view of the future, and you're going to build your company towards that. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis
- ▶ 24:15 Sonal Chokshi When people reference Steve Jobs, like there's a million Steve Jobs in, 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Internet Is Your Movement
- ▶ 20:12 Jim Gilliam There's that Steve Jobs quote.
a16z Podcast | The Business of Creativity -- Pixar CFO, IPO, and Beyond!
- ▶ 0:10 Sonal Chokshi He's on the board of directors of Pixar and was in the office of the president and has written a book just out called To Pixar and Beyond, My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:58 Sonal Chokshi Steve told you investors will love this.
- ▶ 7:53 Sonal Chokshi I mean, how did you go from the situation to the success that you and Steve and everyone that worked at Pixar built? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:26 Sonal Chokshi It's interesting you described that Steve had hired you to partner with him, so you guys were partners. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:44 Sonal Chokshi It's a really interesting moment right now in recent history, given how few years it was that he passed away, but already three or four books have come out trying to repaint the picture, or maybe paint the picture, and you had a unique… 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:02 Lawrence Levy Well, I went to see my old friend and mentor, Larry Sonsini, Wilson Sonsini, and I presented all this to him, and he knew Steve really well, and, and he knew Pixar, and I said, investors are really going to balk at this. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:17 Lawrence Levy This is a tremendous tribute to John Lasseter and Ed Campbell, who really created the creative, the creation culture of Pixar, and Stephen, myself, I think,
- ▶ 22:03 Lawrence Levy Steve and I would talk about this a lot, uh, because going back to 1995, 1996, the creative team at Pixar, as brilliant as it was, was young and untested. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 15:07 Steven Sinofsky I sat there in the launch of, of the first iPhone and Jobs stood on stage.
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