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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where IPad comes up on the a16z Podcast, Top Founders, Another Podcast, TBPN, 20VC
AI Safety Timeline Takeover, Bending Spoons Acquires Miro, iPhone Duo Reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:32 John Coogan But, um, and then the vertical content will also look like bars on the side, like you're on an iPad. 3 times in the scene
Apple’s iPhone Duo, Meta’s Muse AI Agent, Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Doom | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:24 Jordi Hays Even using a lot of normal iPhone apps on iPads, it usually just doesn't feel quite right scrolling.
Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 12:35 M.G. Siegler They've obviously been, been selling them and making them for years now, but most people tend to buy, you know, a regular sized iPad or an iPad pro model.
- ▶ 13:59 M.G. Siegler Um, but then when you have some time to sort of sit back and lean back experience, which again, like from the, from the original introduction of the iPad with Steve jobs sitting on that leather chair, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:18 M.G. Siegler And imagine like, obviously there's a lot of people who have both an iPhone and an iPad or, or an Android device in some tablet, um, be it an iPad or whatnot. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:18 M.G. Siegler We think we have the iPad. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:18 M.G. Siegler Uh, maybe iPad like, but sort of running a new fangled version, uh, that they'll call home OS and, and, and the most interesting thing about it honestly might be if you're, you know, part of a family and the, the rumored, um, features… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:17 M.G. Siegler And, um, you know, one of the first moves that Nadella did was introduce, um, office for iPad.
Orbs: Shifting Coding to Cloud — Quinn Slack, Amp Code
- ▶ 4:07 Shawn Wang Like you can just like code on an iPad because it doesn't matter.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
- ▶ 30:26 Anish Acharya And then it would, um, award or detract screen time from my son's iPad, depending on whether he was being good or bad.
What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success
- ▶ 56:56 unnamed speaker It goes on to lead to the building of the iPhone, uh, the iPad.
Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
- ▶ 17:27 Gavin Baker To an iPhone and an iPad and like, you know, get them used to it.
Make Better Decisions by Fixing Yourself First
- ▶ 37:59 David Baszucki And that knowing what we do, given that we're doing age check for all of our users, for comms, for example, we know, for example, a lot of parents don't have the time to configure their device, or a lot of parents say, yeah, take my iPad… 2 times in the scene
Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick
- ▶ 26:03 M.G. Siegler You know, I, I'm entering in with a blank slate, and I'm going to look, revisit everything, and, and there's, you know, there's no sacred cows, and, and we will look at everything from first principles and whatnot, and, and, you know,…
- ▶ 29:12 M.G. Siegler It's for iPad. 2 times in the scene
Founder of CAA Michael Ovitz: "I Just Knew I Was Going to Outwork Every One of Them"
- ▶ 16:55 Michael Ovitz They do two hours a day of hard study off an iPad, and he's as fluent now in knowledge as he's ever been, and he's 10.
Big Companies Hiring Again, Anthropic's Open-Weight Position, Zuck Backs AI for All | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 33:15 unnamed speaker The other piece of news is that Apple is launching Apple Upgrade next week, then iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch leasing slash subscription program. 2 times in the scene
How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan
- ▶ 21:41 David Senra Remember, I think the iPad came out, what, 2009, something like that? 3 times in the scene
Why great leaders make themselves obsolete | Eric Sager (COO, Plaid)
- ▶ 12:02 Eric Sager Like my kids do on their iPad.
🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences
And How Matic Won By Choosing the Most Boring Market in Robotics with Founders Mehul and Navneet
- ▶ 11:51 Navneet Dalal And iPad was a new device, and it wasn't clear where to exactly fit the iPad, and it took almost 10 years for various experimentations till it got figured out. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:07 Navneet Dalal So the, the, the, what we were solving for consumer is that this is also the time when a lot of folks were moving to their personal devices for consumption of media, like, you know, laptops, iPads just came out and people were switching it…
Why AI Agents Don't Actually Understand You — Danielle Perszyk, Amazon AGI Lab
- ▶ 40:49 unnamed speaker But like, they're also giving their kids iPads.
Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 52:19 David Senra Instead, Jobs introduced the iPod in 2001, the iPhone in 2007, the iPad in 2010, before he had to resign in 2011 because of poor health.
Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake
- ▶ 30:54 M.G. Siegler And so you just saw Mike Rockwell, the new, the executive who took over that group and, and sort of rebuilt it, um, just doing these demos where it's as simple as holding down the button and speaking to your iPhone and it being talking to… 2 times in the scene
Dylan Field on the “Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 46:25 Dylan Field Um, and, uh, if you look at an iPad, like, why is it a big iPhone?
Rocket Lab Enters SpaceX Arena, Meta’s Prediction Market, America’s Tech Wishlist | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 21:45 John Coogan And I do think maybe an iPad app, iPads often sit at the at the piano, and you could have an iPad app that shows sort of like one note or two. 2 times in the scene
Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
- ▶ 41:53 Alex Kantrowitz Let's go to our, uh, this, this, our last story, which is that Apple has raised the prices on the max iPads by 200 dollars or more on some models. 3 times in the scene
Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter
- ▶ 47:29 Gavin Baker Tens of thousands of phones, iPads, and computers that are asking the Cloud API through masked accounts, very specific questions, and then these what's called reasoning traces are being harvested.
The Simple Genius of Jony Ive
- ▶ 48:57 David Senra And then I want to jump ahead to the chapter on the iPad. 4 times in the scene
Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
- ▶ 1:23 Jason Calacanis Uh, but it's been great staying at the house because there's actually, Chamonth is not aware of this, there's an iPad in the kitchen, and that's logged in to Uber Eats, DoorDash, Instacart, Amazon, Laura Piana.
State of Enterprise AI 2026: Aaron Levie on Tokenmaxxing, Rise of Headless, and AI-Proofing Your Job
- ▶ 44:02 Aaron Levie And, and then you just like, you're like, oh no, actually I do have an iPad and a Mac book and an iPhone. 2 times in the scene
PwC’s Dallas Dolen: AI Hardware’s Advantage, TokenMaxxing, Automation’s Impact
- ▶ 20:27 Dallas Dolen Uh, it's all set up on my iPad. 2 times in the scene
Chips, Gigawatts, AI, & Agents: Coatue's Public Markets Update | CIO Jaimin Rangwalla · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 26:04 Jaimin Rangwalla Maybe you're someone has an iPad too.
Spencer Pratt on Fixing LA: Wildfires, Homelessness, Corruption & the Fight to Take It Back
- ▶ 1:09:40 Spencer Pratt Parents are telling me they have to have their kids glued to an iPad in the backseat of their cars, driving them to school.
Apple-Intel Chip Deal, U.S Adds 115K Jobs, DeepSeek Eyes $50B Valuation | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:26 unnamed speaker Uh, and so Apple relies on TSMC to make chips for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and other devices, and is under pressure to find additional chip suppliers.
Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:29 Tobi Lütke High-stress meeting, like picture, eight-year floor somewhere in Manhattan, um, room, the biggest table you've ever seen, lots and lots of people, paper everywhere, prospectuses, calls, um, high-tech and iPad.
Making $$ with AI Agents
- ▶ 59:25 Greg Isenberg Like when, you know, I'm looking at my desk, it's a wood desk right now, and I've got, I'm like, I have a paper over here, and some scribbles over here, and my iPad over there.
Replit's CEO On The Only Two Jobs Left In The Company Of The Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:13 Amjad Masad A lot of software for families, like a mom built, like, a chore hero software, an iPad that's, like, on the wall that shows the kids how they're ranking on their chores.
Claude Design: Full Walkthrough. I'm blown away.
- ▶ 10:52 Greg Isenberg Um, I wonder if you can use this on iPad. 2 times in the scene
4 Steps to Become a Sales Machine (Make a TON of Money) | Shelby Sapp
- ▶ 1:17:38 Shelby Sapp And I pointed to my iPad.
After $9B IPO This Founder is Rebuilding Internet for Agents | Sudheesh Nair, Thoughtspot, Nutanix
- ▶ 10:56 Sudheesh Nair You took your iPad and then go, what am I going to, let me do some research.
Artemis II Makes History, Nutella in Space, The US-China AI Race | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:14 unnamed speaker We need some iPads floating by with like B to B SaaS.
Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
- ▶ 45:31 Jessie Genet Like the, um, like my, my, I have the daylight, um, display, which is kind of like an iPad, but e-ink. 4 times in the scene
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS Extinction
- ▶ 19:47 Felix Rieseberg I'm a huge proponent of the idea that us makers and builders of technology need to take seriously the fact that you use a computer and you don't just have an iPad.
#1 Followed Neuroscientist: Break Your Negative Thinking
- ▶ 32:03 Codie Sanchez And, um, again, you had a couple of control groups, but you were to ask them, uh, how much, I don't know, uh, this iPad was worth, but they didn't know what the cost of the iPad was. 2 times in the scene
Jeremy Grantham – Bubbles, Value Investing, and the Long Game at GMO (EP.493)
- ▶ 1:15:51 Jeremy Grantham Other than that, I spend too much time glued to my iPad reading good books and a bit of science fiction, beginning to spend too much time maybe chatting with Claude and Deep Seeked where they disagree.
Bezos' $100B AI Plan, Nvida Chip Smuggling, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 22:07 unnamed speaker We were debating the, the flipping the iPad around asking for a tip earlier today. 2 times in the scene
How To Stay Focused, Beat Distraction, and Get Things Done | Nir Eyal
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- ▶ 0:14 Felix Rieseberg Silicon Valley overall is undervaluing the local computer, and my default argument for that is always, how come you are using Macbooks and not like an iPad or a Chromebook?
- ▶ 17:43 Felix Rieseberg And my default argument for that is always, how come we're all using Mac books and not like an iPad or a Chromebook?
AI vs. Dog Cancer, Timothée Chalamet Under Fire, ‘Agents Over Bubbles' | Diet TBPN
Tall Poppy Syndrome, Bytedance Gets Blackwell Chips, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:23 Jordi Hays From the first Apple computer to the Mac, from iPod to iPhone, iPad to Apple Watch and AirPods, as well as the services we use every day, M-Dash, the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV, M-Dash. 2 times in the scene
Andrew Huberman: Peptides, Sleep Tech, and the End of Obesity
- ▶ 47:01 Dr. Andrew Huberman An underwater iPad and the appropriate use of, of touch screen and AI, I'm hoping will allow this or another octopus to communicate something about what it's thinking.
Daniel Gross’ AGI predictions, SpaceX IPO news, Trump takes control of US chip exports | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:53 unnamed speaker I am pretty bullish on like the, like the light blue color, like thesis, which is that like you'll have robotics, but you'll just have like, so you'll be in the machine shop, but you're just using an iPad.
The Remarkable AGI Predictions of Daniel Gross
- ▶ 26:39 unnamed speaker So you'll be in the machine shop, but you're just using an iPad.
Apple’s MacBook Neo, OpenAI’s Pentagon Agreement, Anthropic’s Investors Silent on DoW | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 1:33 unnamed speaker They're like, hey, we heard you liked having an iPad that you could attach a keyboard to, so we basically took an iPad and put a keyboard. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:33 unnamed speaker More of a no-brainer for kids than an iPad for some reason. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:13 unnamed speaker If you went to build a computer or a phone or laptop or, you know, iPad equivalent, and you just went to retail,
FULL BREAKDOWN: Apple’s 7 New Devices
- ▶ 1:42 unnamed speaker They're like, hey, we heard you liked having an iPad that you could attach a keyboard to. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:49 unnamed speaker Yeah, this is, uh, this feels, this feels like more of a no-brainer for kids than an iPad. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:59 unnamed speaker Getting a, if you went to build a computer, or a phone, or laptop, or, you know, iPad equivalent, and you just went to retail, getting an extra
FULL BREAKDOWN: Trump BANS Anthropic
- ▶ 33:52 John Coogan Keith Raboy said, imagine Apple sold computers or iPads to the DoD and tried to tell the Pentagon what missions could be planned on their computers.
Palmer Luckey: Why I Started My Own Bank
- ▶ 15:10 unnamed speaker I have three, three kids and, uh, I think I could probably get an emulator and run it on an iPad and slam that over to my kid's face.
Elon’s wildest interview yet — our reaction
- ▶ 51:56 Shaan Puri And he was like, and then, you know, um, you know, Steve Jobs, you know, he'll invent the iPad and the iPhone, but at home his kids don't use it.
Jason Fried: Your Only Competition Is Your Costs
- ▶ 2:00:19 Jason Fried That's the alarm panel that has a, it's like a huge iPad screen.
Debt Spiral or NEW Golden Age? Super Bowl Insider Trading, Booming Token Budgets, Ferrari's New EV
- ▶ 1:05:50 David Sacks Again, nice balance between kind of the interior of a race car, the simplicity of that iPad screen, but also having enough sort of buttons that you develop muscle memory around where all the controls are.
OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
- ▶ 1:15:30 Sherwin Wu So if you have security cameras that are plugged into the Ubiquiti ecosystem, they have an incredible mobile app, uh, and Apple TV app and iPad app, um, to kind of see the live feed of your cameras and,
He wrote the book on Account Based Marketing. Here are his GTM secrets for enterprise. | Bassem H... · PMF Show
- ▶ 35:44 Bassem Hamdy And at Procore, not having embraced iPads or the cloud, like distributing software to the source,
Jonathan Lewinsohn – Credit Microcycles at Diameter (EP.484)
- ▶ 12:09 Jonathan Lewinsohn Steve Jobs announced the introduction of the iPad, which transformed work, and the first unitron transaction was done.
20Growth: How Wix Built a $100M Marketing Machine | Why LTV is BS and Why Time Return On Investment is the Most Important Metric | How to 10x Your Growth: What is the Next Great Channel with Omer Shai, CMO @ Wix
- ▶ 38:30 Harry Stebbings Apple are brilliant because they sell the creativity that their products allow, the ability to paint beautiful pictures on an iPad,
Clawdbot’s name change, Meta’s new pricing plan, Tyler’s 21st birthday | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 9:04 unnamed speaker Tyler, apparently you share a birthday with the iPad.
Capital One Acquires Brex for $5B, Davos’s $500M business, Apple’s Siri rebuild | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 24:45 John Coogan The chatbot, codenamed Kempos, will be embedded deeply into the iPhone, iPad, and Mac operating systems and replace the current Siri interface according to people familiar with the plan. 2 times in the scene
Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
- ▶ 1:11:10 Morgan Housel Steve Jobs creates the iPad and the iPhone and the, and the, and the, and the, and the, and the, and the, and the, and the, the, the rest is history from there.
The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of
Charisma Expert: 5 Ways To Project Confidence (Even When You Don’t Feel It) | Dr. Shadé Zahrai
- ▶ 1:11:44 Dr. Shadé Zahrai And sometimes that's being horizontal in bed with an iPad at two PM on a Wednesday.
Siri needs an App, OpenAI Acquires health startup Torch, Claude Cowork reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:38 John Coogan And so I, I got an iPad and the iPad, uh, just accidentally installed like every app that I've ever installed on my phone. 2 times in the scene
AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
- ▶ 8:05 M.G. Siegler Um, and again, I think that that's what jobs was great at, but to your exact point though, it's a little, it's probably a little bit easier when it's going to be a product that people and consumers can sort of use in their hands, like an…
- ▶ 45:01 M.G. Siegler Um, and then when it's unfolded, maybe it's more like an iPad mini, which is advice that I love, but it hasn't really resonated as big as, as you know, sort of the bigger iPads have.
We're all Jerome Powell, Apple and Google Make it Official, Anthropic Health Care | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:10 unnamed speaker Please, please, give me an iPad with the score.
AI Needs a Steve Jobs, Meta’s Nuclear Powerplants, a16z raises $15B | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:21 unnamed speaker Somebody once asked him, uh, so your kids must love the iPad.
xAI Raises $20B, Anthropic’s $350B Valuation, OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 24:43 Jordi Hays Inch iPad bolted to the wall that has the weather forecast on it, and it's bright.
CES’s legacy, reactions to Dwarkesh’s “Capital in the 22nd Century,” and more | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:11 unnamed speaker We turned every Lego brick into a mini iPad.
Will inference move to the edge?
- ▶ 34:23 Shayle Kann Straight onto your iPhone or your iPad or whatever it is.
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:40:42 Ben Gilbert So the first is discovering guided access on the iPad.
GPT-5.2 Reactions, Jacob Elordi vs AI, Disney x OpenAI Deal Breakdown | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 5:49 unnamed speaker I wonder if that means the Apple TV app or the Disney plus app on the phone, on an iPad, on a phone, it feels a little bit more natural just in terms of the star Wars property.
AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
- ▶ 15:35 Ranjan Roy But I mean, was it seven, eight years ago, like AirPods, the magic of them was you just put them on and they connected to your phone, MacBook, iPad very easily.
Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
- ▶ 49:18 Josh Wolfe Completely automated labs operated in the cloud where a scientist can pick up the iPad and
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- ▶ 40:49 Alex Rampell Would they have dropped everything, would they have focused on building that versus the iPad or something, whatever, like, Steve's last, uh, gizmo was, like, sure.
Tim Cook’s Final Year?, Big Tech Horse Race, Anthropic’s Profitability Push
- ▶ 14:21 M.G. Siegler And to your point, like of leading leaving, um, sort of the cupboard stocked as it were, like if, uh, if he has sort of this, um, yeah, this pipeline of new products coming out, there's also some, you know, apparently some AI related…
Ideas That Sound Illegal (But Print Money Anyway)
- ▶ 12:45 Sheel Mohnot A design, like they could, it could either not show up at all, or when they show up, they could have an iPad with a bunch of sample designs of my place.
How I Design Apps 10x Better (Free Course)
- ▶ 38:05 Chris Farroki Same thing too, if you notice there's some background sketches there, also just hand drawn on an iPad, but you can just generate these things.
Inside Visa Ventures: Strategic Corporate Investing, Global FinTech Insights, and Founder Success with David Rolf
- ▶ 32:15 David Rolf Um, so I, uh, I am ink to paper, except, um, I, I have an iPad, and I've actually found, there's an app called Notability. 2 times in the scene
Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
- ▶ 10:23 Martin Casado But apparently in that time, or so Oscar tells me, someone showed up at the cursor office and put an iPad on the window and says, cursor's down.
OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
- ▶ 46:08 M.G. Siegler We should focus on iPad. 2 times in the scene
Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple [Outliers]
- ▶ 48:56 Shane Parrish The iPhone, the iPad, the modern Mac are all beautiful closed systems that users admire but don't really modify much.
Stablecoin special: Zach Abrams (Bridge) and Henri Stern (Privy)
- ▶ 41:12 Henri Stern Sometimes rarely the iPad is.
20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber | How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million | Money Fixed My Problems—Then Made Me Miserable
- ▶ 18:12 Tim Ferriss Poetry, painting, digital painting on an iPad, things like this.
5x founder asked Ford for a contract so large—they acquired his company instead. | Amar Varma, Fo... · PMF Show
- ▶ 11:19 Amar Varma We, we built, uh, versions of the app for the phones, the iPads, a messenger, a version of, of Instagram post acquisition.
How Jensen Works
- ▶ 31:21 David Senra I've spent thinking about this iPad demo and how much Steve taught me in one meeting where he spoke just four sentences.
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