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Ferrari: What happens when you staple a luxury brand to a sports team? (Audio) · Acquired Apr 14, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 2:39:14 Ben Gilbert Or at least one of the patents for the accelerometer in the original iPhone.
  • ▶ 2:39:18 David Rosenthal Yes, in the iPhone and, you know, basically all mobile phones today, the accelerometers that are used there.
  • ▶ 3:08:15 Ben Gilbert 20 years after he designed the iPhone, what would he do today with all that learning, and what would he do if it were a Ferrari?

Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired Mar 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:15:23 Ben Gilbert It's basically an iPhone and they'd rearrange the components to fit in the standard F one camera package.

Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired Oct 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:36 David Rosenthal Yeah, and so then there's a iPhone neuron and a San Francisco Giants neuron and all the things that YouTube recommends.

Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired Aug 26, 2025 · 47 mentions

The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired Jun 2, 2025 · 3 mentions

Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired Mar 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:58:08 Ben Gilbert In 2016, that's nine years after the iPhone came out, and like five or six years after it became the de facto standard computing platform in the U.S.

Rolex (Audio) · Acquired Feb 24, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:15:02 Ben Gilbert There are three pillars to what makes this a breakout product that enables the wristwatch to really have its iPhone moment, and that third of being perpetual, of being self-winding, is the magic.
  • ▶ 4:52:07 Ben Gilbert You know, billionaires have iPhones.
  • ▶ 4:52:09 Ben Gilbert People buying their first smartphone have iPhones.

TSMC founder Morris Chang · Acquired Jan 27, 2025 · 8 mentions

TSMC · Acquired Jan 21, 2025 · 15 mentions

  • ▶ 0:39 Ben Gilbert They make the primary chip inside every MacBook and iPhone shipped today.
  • ▶ 3:11 Ben Gilbert They make literally every chip in every iPhone sold today, and soon to be in every Mac sold.
  • ▶ 57:48 Ben Gilbert Assembling an iPhone is completely, completely different than taking a brand new design for a next generation chip and manufacturing that chip.
  • ▶ 1:04:41 Ben Gilbert I was wondering, I don't actually know the relationship, because obviously, today, a huge amount of volume of TSMC's manufacturing is making chips for iPhones, which
  • ▶ 1:04:55 David Rosenthal Chips that are using all mobile devices, iPhones and Android, all of which are ARM, and lots of servers that are ARM.
  • ▶ 1:20:19 Ben Gilbert Which means that you will see that on an Apple slide somewhere announcing the next iPhone, talking about how it's a three nanometer process.
  • ▶ 1:33:11 Ben Gilbert 2007 in July, the iPhone comes out.
  • ▶ 1:34:40 Ben Gilbert And we should say, too, 2009 was an interesting tipping point, because if you'll remember back to the 2007 introduction of the iPhone, Steve Jobs has a slide where he says their hope, their goal, is to get one percent of the existing…
  • ▶ 1:35:00 Ben Gilbert In 2009, we're starting to see, I think the iPhone four came out.
  • ▶ 1:38:45 Ben Gilbert And it was Apple basically saying, we think a lot of people are gonna buy a lot of iPhones in the future, and we are competing head-to-head with Samsung because they're a company that is not clear on strategy.
  • ▶ 1:40:41 Ben Gilbert I'm pretty sure some iPhones had Samsung fabbed A fours and fives in them, and some had TSMC fabbed ones.
  • ▶ 1:40:49 David Rosenthal But I think by the six, all iPhones were huge winners, but I think the six was like,
  • ▶ 1:48:24 David Rosenthal They are the iPhone of semiconductors.
  • ▶ 2:06:31 Ben Gilbert In the mid-two thousands, as Apple Inc. was preparing for the release of its new smartphone, Steve Jobs approached then-CEO of Intel, Ottolini, about providing the chips for the iPhone.
  • ▶ 2:06:43 Ben Gilbert Intel already sold iPhone, the processors that ran on its Macs, but Jobs made-

IKEA (Audio) · Acquired Nov 18, 2024 · 1 mention

Meta (Audio) · Acquired Oct 28, 2024 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 2:39:50 Ben Gilbert Steve Jobs just announced the iPhone.
  • ▶ 2:40:01 David Rosenthal Yes, January, 2007, Steve Jobs announces the iPhone.
  • ▶ 2:40:12 David Rosenthal There was no SDK in that first iPhone and iOS.
  • ▶ 2:40:18 Ben Gilbert Android was a Blackberry clone at the time, not an iPhone clone.
  • ▶ 2:40:33 David Rosenthal So after the iPhone announcement.
  • ▶ 4:13:50 Ben Gilbert It's kind of like when you got a retina iPhone for the first time, and you're, like, holding your non-retina iPhone, and you're like, this is instantly a piece of crap.
  • ▶ 5:16:38 Ben Gilbert Fortunately, if we want to model this out, we know the financials of a product like that, the most successful and profitable consumer product in history, the iPhone.
  • ▶ 5:16:48 Ben Gilbert So as a thought experiment, what if Meta managed to launch such a product, say, the Orion glasses, tomorrow, and say that such a product grew at the exact same rate and with the exact same profit stream as the iPhone?
  • ▶ 5:17:02 Ben Gilbert Well, I did that napkin math, and if twenty-twenty-four,
  • ▶ 5:17:37 Ben Gilbert That also assumes generously that Meta could build a services business attached to it the size of Apple's services business, which probably generates right around an equal amount of profit.
  • ▶ 5:20:52 David Rosenthal Not only will they do everything that you're just talking about of like, oh, they'll have an iPhone size business because if it turns into be glasses and reality labs, they're going to be selling the hardware and maybe they can make that…

Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) · Acquired Sep 30, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:45:35 Mark Zuckerberg Let's build this platform where we can get a web-based platform, so you basically build a native shell, and you build this web-based platform in it, and we'll be able to just update our apps every day, and we'll ship one thing once, and…
  • ▶ 2:17:25 Mark Zuckerberg And the thing that I think there's just a ton of recency bias around is because iPhone basically won, you know, I know that there are more Android phones out there, but I mean, but iPhone is sort of like the intellectual leader and by far…
  • ▶ 2:17:42 Mark Zuckerberg Um, I think that there's the recency bias and probably like almost everyone here has an iPhone.

The Mark Zuckerberg Interview · Acquired Sep 18, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 37:34 Mark Zuckerberg Let's build this platform where we can get a web-based platform, so you basically build a native shell, and you build this web-based platform in it, and we'll be able to just update our apps every day, and we'll ship one thing once, and…
  • ▶ 1:09:38 Mark Zuckerberg And the thing that I think there's just a ton of recency bias around is because iPhone basically won, you know, I know that there are more Android phones out there, but I mean, but iPhone is sort of like the intellectual leader and by far…
  • ▶ 1:09:56 Mark Zuckerberg Um, and then there's the recency bias and probably like almost everyone here has an iPhone.
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