Andy Rubin
person on 10 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes · said 56 times in 19 episodes since 2015
20VC 18 
Acquired 17 
My First Million 6 
the a16z Podcast 4 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 3 
All-In 3 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 2 
American Optimist 1 
Top Founders 1 
the MAD Podcast 1
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2025 20 mentions in 3 episodes 7 per episode
2024 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2022 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Hugo Barra: How I Built Hardware for Android, Xiaomi, and Oculus | 20VC #947 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Legendary iPod & iPhone Creator Tony Fadell Shares His Design Secrets · Joe Lonsdale
- The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
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2019 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
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- Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator
- 20VC: Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook on The Commonalities of The Truly Great CEOs, How To Hire The Very Best Execs, Why Cash is A Defensible Moat Today & The Pros and Cons of M&A and IPOs
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2017 13 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC: Pejman Nozad: Tech's Most Unlikely VC: From Yoghurt Shop To Investing In Startups Now Worth $20Bn+
- AI: The New Platform for SaaS
- 20VC: The Biggest Indicators Of Success In Founding Teams, How To Balance Both Vision and Operations & Taking Money From "The Man At The Rug Store" with Mar Hershenson, Founding Managing Partner @ Pear.vc
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2016 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
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Andy Rubin pitched Android to Apple before selling it to Google
“I got a couple of calls from Andy Rubin at the time, who I worked with at General Magic, working on Android before Android was bought by Google. And so that was really like, Steve, we should listen to this.”
Markoff: Google acquired robotics startups to build an automated delivery network
“When Andy Rubin was going around the valley and buying and around the world and buying up, you know, the world's best roboticist, he was sketching out a vision which I would describe as a Google competing with Amazon. And you know, and if you can kind of see t…”
Gil: Android had 11 to 12 employees when acquired by Google
“Andy Rubin was acquired when Android was, I think, about 11, 12 people, and then obviously that led to this amazing handset OS and sort of platform for the world.”
Nozad was the first investor in Andy Rubin's Danger
“I actually was the first investor in Danger in that room. Andy Rubin started Danger, and as you know, he went on and created Android.”
Nozad's fund was the first investor in Andy Rubin's Danger
“We managed to be his first investor in Danger”
Andy Rubin founded Android as an EIR at Redpoint's offices
“Famously, we had Andy Rubin as a IR here, and he actually founded Android out of our Menlo Park offices, and eventually helped them sell that into Google.”