IMac
product on 20 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes · said 120 times in 56 episodes since 2013
Founders 36 
How I Built This 16 
Another Podcast 9 
A Product Market Fit Show 8 
the a16z Podcast 7 
All-In 7 
David Senra 5 
TBPN 5 
the Knowledge Project 4 
Big Technology 4 
BigDeal 3 
Lenny's Podcast 3 
My First Million 3 
Sourcery 3 
20VC 2 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
the Neon Show 1 
Invest Like the Best 1 
Top Founders 1 
the MAD Podcast 1
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2026 22 mentions in 6 episodes 4 per episode
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- Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- Bond crisis looming? GOP abandons DOGE, Google disrupts Search with AI, OpenAI buys Jony Ive's IO
- Apple in China: Tim Cook’s $275B Pledge | Patrick McGee · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- The Life Story of Akio Morita: Founder of Sony
- Mark Gurman on Apple Glasses Release Date, The Next AirPods, The Problem With Siri & More
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2024 19 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- How To Sell Like Steve Jobs
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- The Founder of Rolex: Hans Wilsdorf
- Decoding the NVIDIA Trade - With Michael Batnick
- How To Make A Few Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs
- Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
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2023 8 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants with Carl Pei
- Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Big Technology's New Release, AI Bubble Looms, Apple's Next Event — With Brian McCullough
- Monetizing passions, scaling marketplaces, and stories from a creator economy vet | Camille Hearst
- Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)
- Facebook's Stock Is Up 43%, Jack Butcher's NFT Makes Millions & More Tech News (#418)
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2021 15 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- Paying attention to Apple again
- Who's in the office? Notes on a year of remote work.
- E17: Big Tech bans Trump, ramifications for the First Amendment & the open Internet
- The Meta reality
- Dopamine Fasts, Cruise Ship Investing, and Elon vs Bezos with Andrew Wilkinson, Co-Founder of Tiny
- Power of Storytelling ft. Roshan Abbas, Investor | Entrepreneur | Actor | Director | Producer
- Camera Insurance as Beachhead to SaaS Play? 100 Customers Already.
- E30: Ramifications of Biden's proposed capital gains tax hike, founder psychology & more
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2019 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- The Knot: Carley Roney & David Liu (2018)
- a16z Podcast | How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree?
- a16z Podcast | Startups, Pivots, Culture, and Timing (Oh Shit!)
- a16z Podcast | Selling Tech to Everyone -- Changes Everything
- a16z Podcast | Apple Takes on Payments and Your Wrist
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2018 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
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6 statements about IMac, every show
Eddy Cue: Apple Sold $1M of iMacs on Online Store Launch Day
“And we had sold a million dollars worth of IMAX and we were high fiving each other and going, this is amazing.”
Senra: Steve Jobs and Jony Ive picked iMac colors in 30 minutes purely on taste
“Steve came down to the design center and me and Steve looked at the colors. And in 30 minutes, we picked every single color, 30 minutes, just taste. And those are the colors that shipped.”
Steve Jobs originally wanted to name the iMac 'MacMan' after the Walkman
“Steve Jobs, when he was building the iMac, he was coming up with a name. He didn't have a name. And so he was walking around. He's like, you know what? We're going to call it Mac Man because he was so inspired by Akio's product, Walkman.”
Steve Jobs originally wanted to name the iMac the 'MacMan'
“Ken Sego, the author. He's the one that came up with the name iMac. And thank God he did, because you know what Steve wanted to call the iMac before it was called iMac? He wanted to call the iMac Mac Man.”
Neistat: Apple iMac was the first consumer computer for video editing
“He bought an iMac computer, which was the first kind of the first consumer market computer that you could edit video on.”
Liu: Smithsonian CD-ROM was OEM bundled with early Apple iMacs
“This publisher managed to get the CD-ROM OEM bundled with every one of the early iMacs. So if you bought the one of those iMacs, you got our disc, and as a result, you know, we got maybe a, I think it was like a dollar per disc that was actually distributed, s…”