HTC
company on 14 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes · said 59 times in 35 episodes since 2016
the a16z Podcast 24 
20VC 14 
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Top Founders 3 
Innovators & Investors 2 
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 20 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR
- a16z Podcast | Platforming the Future
- a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- a16z Podcast | Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality
- a16z Podcast | The Present State and Future Possibility of Virtual Reality
- Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning
- a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment?
- a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2016 14 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Why Adaptability Is Key To Fundraising, Why Supply Is Always The First Priority In Marketplaces & Why Sometimes You Have To Hire Fast & Fire Fast with Nav Athwal, Founder & CEO @ RealtyShares
- 20VC: Greenfield Opportunities For Machine Learning, Why Massive Corporates Finally See It's Potential & Why VC's Investment Decision Making Process Needs To Change with James Cham, Partner @ Bloomberg Beta
- 20VC: Investing Lessons From Fred Wilson & Brad Feld and Why Fundraising Is An Art & Not Everyone Can Be An Artist with Howard Lindzon Founder @ Stocktwits & Managing Partner @ Social Leverage
- 20VC: Why Every Employee Should Re-Apply For Their Job Every Year & The Strategies To Prepare For A Successful Fundraise with Kyle Hill, Founder & CEO @ HomeHero
- 20VC: The 4 Required Powers For A Startup To Be A $500m Business with "The Most Powerful Woman in Startups", Ann Miura Ko, Co-Founder @ Floodgate
- 20VC: Why People Should Never Be Surprised If Fired, Subscription E-Commerce Is Hot & People Never Give True and Direct Feedback with Amir Elaguizy, Co-Founder @ Cratejoy
- 20VC: Mythbuster: Is Mobile Dying? Is AR/VR Overhyped? Is The Excitement Around Bots Justified with Sean Flynn, Partner @ Shasta Ventures
- 20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2016 →
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5 statements about HTC, every show
OptimaEd's VR software runs across Meta, Apple, HTC, and Pico headsets
“As long as it's six degrees of freedom, we can use any headset that's out there in the market. Our software actually runs even on the Apple product the Apple vision pro. So it doesn't matter if it's if it's either meta, If it's Apple, if it's HTC, if it's Pico…”
Ballmer: Microsoft explored acquiring HTC years before buying Nokia
“I'd been trying to buy a hard, I had talked about buying a phone company for years, a number of years before the Nokia deal. I forget what year it was. I flew to Taiwan and we were looking at buying HTC. They were the biggest Windows phone OEM at the time. Nok…”
Friedberg: Google used open-source Android to secure search dominance
“Google made Android open source. And by making the Android operating system open source, They were able to have their own forked versions that they were able to install on phones with partners like HTC and Samsung and others that they could then have their sea…”
Mónica: HTC and Samsung added crypto hardware processors to phones
“The current hardware manufacturers that you use, HTC and Samsung, have been adding features to their phones, crypto processors, that have the sole purpose of maintaining safely private keys on your devices.”