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My First Million 8 
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where IPod comes up on the a16z Podcast, Founders, 20VC, How I Built This, American Optimist
Labour, Engineering, Social Media, GrokBots, Cybercabs: 7 Predictions for How AI Changes the World
- ▶ 35:07 Matteo Franceschetti I grew up, and I remember when I bought my, um, iPod, uh, with the, it was impossible, and I was buying a second-hand iPod on eBay back then, but because Americans were having this product, and it was not being sold in Europe yet. 2 times in the scene
Jimmy Iovine on AI: “The Great Artists Will Show the World How to Use It”
- ▶ 22:33 Jimmy Iovine So what Steve and Eddie had was a really good idea, an elegant way to match their iPod.
What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success
How to Make Ads That Sell: Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins
- ▶ 56:00 David Senra I don't know why, but when I read that, I think of what Steve Jobs did with the iPod.
What Happens When the AI Boom Runs Out of Money · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 53:07 Ben Thompson The iPod helped them realize that, and going with Windows and all that, but will they fall into a Microsoft-like trap?
Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 2:26:08 David Rosenthal The iPod comes out, iTunes comes out, and one of the big marketing campaigns for the iPod and iTunes is rip, mix, burn.
How to Speak Better Than 99% of People (5 Frameworks)
- ▶ 7:38 Steve Jobs The first one is a widescreen iPod with touch controls. 5 times in the scene
DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
- ▶ 4:36 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) I will just come to Chicago and you'll give me an iPod and a MacBook and whatever.
And How Matic Won By Choosing the Most Boring Market in Robotics with Founders Mehul and Navneet
- ▶ 9:57 Navneet Dalal So the, the, the, let's, let's take some historical examples that would be perhaps very good example for when Apple worked on the iPods back in, ah, like, you know, 2001 and two, we were already using Walkmans. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:31 Mehul Nariyawala And then we got the iPods, and then we were carrying three devices, and we're like, ah, I don't want to carry three devices.
Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 0:47 David Senra When the first iPod was released in October, 2001, industry analysts couldn't see much more than, quote, a nice feature for Macintosh users that doesn't make any difference to the rest of the world. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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.
The Marketing Genius of Steve Stoute
- ▶ 8:43 Steve Stoute So I remember when we knew that the iPod was coming because of Jimmy's relationship with Steve. 3 times in the scene
Snap SPECS, Taste Labs Timeline Turmoil, AI Execs at G7 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:05 unnamed speaker And then the fact that it also was an iPod was, was an extra feature.
The Simple Genius of Jony Ive
- ▶ 18:22 David Senra Within a couple of years, Johnny hired most of the rest of the team that would go on to make the iMac, the iPod, and the iPhone.
- ▶ 37:40 David Senra The iMac launch and continuing development defined the game plan that Apple would use to such devastating effect with later products like the iPod.
- ▶ 42:40 David Senra And so this book that I have in front of me tells the story of building the iPod. 12 times in the scene
The Man Behind Grand Theft Auto 6: Strauss Zelnick
- ▶ 40:33 David Senra Now you're getting the iPod.
FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor
- ▶ 17:56 Thomas Laffont Well, because the iPod was starting to really gain traction, and an iPod was a semiconductor product, it had NAM flash, it had a processor, so that was the gateway into Apple, which eventually led to the iPhone, and it was kind of an… 2 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: Apple Exec on How Apple Builds Products That Actually Win
The Underrated Money Making Skill In 2026
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.
Insights from Coatue's Growth Investor Lucas Swisher · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:05 Harry Stebbings But the iPod Nanos and the iPod, I was like, wow, thousands, like now with the new iPhones, let's be honest, like no one's like, yeah,
Screensharing Kevin Rose's AI Workflow/New App
- ▶ 17:38 Kevin Rose It's looking the word apples, looking for releases, looking for whatever it was back then that they were doing like an iPod or something.
Jimmy Iovine: Building Interscope Records & Beats by Dre
- ▶ 28:51 Jimmy Iovine Beats was a product, not by accident, like the iPod.
- ▶ 1:53:07 Jimmy Iovine Even with Beats, I, you know, I, I saw the iPod, and we finally decided to do it, and I said, 2 times in the scene
Is AI Killing Software? — With Bret Taylor, OpenAI's board chair and CEO of Sierra
- ▶ 53:15 Bret Taylor Uh, I was, didn't have the good fortune of really knowing Steve Jobs, but they always talked about the reality distortion field and why so many great engineers went and did great things like creating the Macintosh or creating the iPod, and…
Why AI will dwarf every tech revolution before it: robots, manufacturing, AR glasses from CES 2026
- ▶ 47:38 Jason Calacanis It's an extra 50 bucks, but it would buffer 10 seconds, and then obviously the iPod came out.
- ▶ 48:21 Bob Sternfels iPod, whatever, right, that then solve both of the equations.
AI Needs a Steve Jobs, Meta’s Nuclear Powerplants, a16z raises $15B | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:27 unnamed speaker As opposed to, you could show someone, uh, an Apple ad or Steve jobs clip and, and it would be like, oh, dancing on your wired headphones with your iPod.
John Mackey: The Dropout Who Changed How America Eats
- ▶ 44:29 John Mackey Or he didn't, he didn't do the MP three player initially, but the iPod was massively better.
CNBC's Jim Cramer: Big Tech Hot Takes, NVIDIA $10 Trillion?, Building Wealth In Any Market
- ▶ 36:22 Jim Cramer They're difficult, but in the end, Apple is when your daughter says, I need a second iPod.
Top 5 of 2025: #4: Alex Sacerdote
- ▶ 12:30 Alex Sacerdote And at that point, the big product for Apple was the iPod. 4 times in the scene
Matthew Dicks – Storytelling Mastery (EP.477)
- ▶ 1:01:34 Matthew Dicks For surprise, he goes on stage and he says, today we're releasing three new products, a touchscreen iPod, a phone, and a breakthrough internet communicator. 2 times in the scene
Satya Nadella describes how lessons from Microsoft’s history apply to today’s boom
- ▶ 1:01:31 John Collison What it talks about, despite it being quite minor, is the fact that Apple originally only let you use an iPod with a Mac, and tried to use it to drive Mac sales, and then gave up and, you know, shipped iTunes for Windows.
Jeff Bezos’ New AI Startup, Yann LeCun Says LLMs are a Dead End, Thiel Fund Sells NVIDIA | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 21:40 unnamed speaker And then it's a mix of iPod and broadcast.
Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
- ▶ 0:09 Michael Truell I think that one of the key challenges facing the company in the future, and we've faced in the past, is we are in a market that's like, you know, had a iPod moment, and like, it's gonna have an iPhone moment.
- ▶ 26:28 Michael Truell I think that one of the challenges, uh, key challenges facing the company, uh, in the future, and we've faced in the past, is we are going, we are in a market that's like, you know, had a iPod moment, and like, it's gonna have an iPhone…
Stablecoin special: Zach Abrams (Bridge) and Henri Stern (Privy)
- ▶ 1:15:44 John Collison You know, JavaScript, web applications, we don't talk about Ajax anymore, or, you know, there was a time when all your iPods went solid state and didn't have a spinning hard disk and your songs didn't skip anymore, but like, it just, it…
Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 51:34 Ben Gilbert You know, it's like Steve Jobs giving us the iPod, and we didn't all know that we needed that thing.
China vs America: The Battle for Global Dominance Explained | Dan Wang interview · Invest Like The Best
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 45:30 Steven Sinofsky Like the iPod is this classic one. 2 times in the scene
He Who Masters Self Masters Chaos: Ted Santos on Why Jobs Went to India
- ▶ 4:58 Ted Santos No one knew they didn't have an iPod. 3 times in the scene
Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 54:06 Niko Bonatsos By the moment you started using computers, if you created, you know, your account, like on the iPod.
How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma
- ▶ 29:45 Asha Sharma Uh, you know, the iPod, like you, you go for it.
Senior Care with AI: Compassionate Companion Robots with Intuition Robotics
- ▶ 18:33 Ronan Soffer It was, it was the iPod and iTunes.
Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- ▶ 1:22:03 John Coogan This thing needs to be tending bar at a frat house and inspiring dancing silhouettes like the original iPod commercial in order to be successful. 4 times in the scene
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 1:13:57 David Senra A stream of breakthroughs including the iMac, OSX, iPod, iTunes, iPhone, and iPad reflected that focused love.
- ▶ 1:28:09 David Senra There's no such thing as an iPad, no such thing as an iPhone, no such thing as an iPod yet.
- ▶ 1:30:34 David Senra Then, you know, he does the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad, iMac, all these other fantastic products.
Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
- ▶ 1:19:12 John Coogan and then it was an iPod, but.
Marc Andreessen on Why Apple Might Miss the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 13:36 John Coogan and then it was an iPod, but.
Clear's Turnaround from Bankruptcy to IPO with CEO Caryn Seidman Becker · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 3:39 Caryn Seidman Becker They had candy-colored Macs and this iPod with the big, you know, white dial in the middle that people thought Zoom might, you know, ultimately crush.
Apple Considers New AI partnership
- ▶ 17:38 unnamed speaker The, like, original iPod.
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 17:49 Steven Sinofsky And then, the next one was the iPod. 2 times in the scene
35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
- ▶ 4:58 Bob Baxley And if I recall the whole list, it was the Apple II, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone.
Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
- ▶ 36:28 Michael Truell The thing there was getting the iPod moment right and then the iPhone moment right. 2 times in the scene
He didn't raise VC for the first 7 years— then grew to $1B in ARR. | Dax Dasilva, Founder of Ligh... · PMF Show
- ▶ 5:19 Dax Dasilva iPod was out.
Bond crisis looming? GOP abandons DOGE, Google disrupts Search with AI, OpenAI buys Jony Ive's IO
- ▶ 47:05 Jason Calacanis And designer, iPhone, iPod, iPad, all that beautiful stuff. 2 times in the scene
Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie
The Life Story of Akio Morita: Founder of Sony
- ▶ 36:40 David Senra And then in turn is the precursor to, you know, Steve jobs on the iPod.
Ep #23 | WTF are Consumer Electronics? | Nikhil ft. Carl Pei, Rahul Sharma & Amit Khatri · Nikhil Kamath
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:30:41 Ben Gilbert My favorite weird example of this in history of it not really working is the HP iPod.
- ▶ 1:30:51 David Rosenthal No, I have one of the U two iPods, the red and black one.
- ▶ 1:30:56 Ben Gilbert It's an HP brand on the back of an iPod that tells you all you need to know about what a weak position Apple was in at the time that they were willing to let HP put their brand on something entirely created by Apple to get HP's…
Rob Mohr on Co-Founding the Huberman Lab Podcast and Scicomm Media
Nextracker's blueprint for 100 gigawatts of solar trackers
- ▶ 8:14 Dan Shugar Come, I mean, at Apple, no one was asking for, you know, the iPod or, or some of the features in the iPhone.
James Dyson: Against the Odds [Outliers]
- ▶ 44:42 Shane Parrish Steve Jobs smashed through it with the iPod.
#111 Stigma: Whose Business Is It Anyway?
- ▶ 9:12 McKeever "Mac" Conwell II The iPod saved Apple. 2 times in the scene
#93 David vs. Godzilla
- ▶ 2:43 Josh Muccio Your Xbox, computer, iPods, iPhones, all of it.
We talk to the guy who knows Silicon Valley’s darkest secrets
- ▶ 42:04 Nick Bilton Mac, and there's the iPod, because that's what it was back then, and, and whatever, and I said, and then you said Apple TV will be the fourth leg, so the stool will become a chair, something like that, and I remembered it verbatim back…
David Senra on How to Become a World Class Founder
- ▶ 3:02 Greg Isenberg The iPod came out. 2 times in the scene
Nvidia’s Success, Chip Race, India’s Semiconductor Mission, & Hardware Vs Software | Raja Manickam
- ▶ 17:17 Raja Manickam And then they went to the, you know, iPod and then, you know, the iPhone and all that, right?
What's Happening at SONOS (Total Disaster)
- ▶ 21:49 John Coogan Or from the iPod. 2 times in the scene
Five $10M+ Ideas (from a guy who's done it 3 times)
- ▶ 3:35 Sheel Mohnot They gave me an iPod mini, which is, um, the iPod had come out.
Trump's Cabinet, Google's Quantum Chip, Apple's Flop, TikTok, State of VC
- ▶ 48:53 Keith Rabois And I said, well, you know, I own every SKU of every product you've ever produced, except I don't have every color of each, you know, iPod.
BARK: Matt Meeker
- ▶ 13:05 Matt Meeker So, what we did, it was the exact moment where the iPod came out, and we sent notes to all of them, and we said, hey, Matt's gonna come up and pick up your paperwork and your check and 3 times in the scene
Antoine Le Nel, CGO @Revolut: How Revolut Launch and Grow Products & Why CAC is a BS Metric | E1216 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:20 Harry Stebbings And I'll take, I'll take the iPod, ok, it's the way that it was boxed, the way that it felt, the scroll wheel, the white, silver, the product, but it was also the brilliance of a thousand songs in your pocket, the white background, the…
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:07 Harry Stebbings The thousand songs in your pocket, the iPod.
Google's Antitrust case
- ▶ 32:45 Benedict Evans This is kind of bizarre assertions that somehow the DHA Microsoft case resulted in the rise of Google or resulted in the iPod and the iPhone, which is just ignorant nonsense.
How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just 2 Years · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:51 Carl Pei I think I was probably one of the first people in Sweden to have the iPod, and, uh, I was definitely the first among my friends to get the iPhone, and back then the iPhone was a U.S. exclusive with AT&T, and I had to get a U.S. friend to…
- ▶ 1:19 Carl Pei And, you know, those early Apple products were super inspiring for me, and unfortunately, the iPod that I got broke, uh, just a week after the warranty ended, and I, I was very young at that time, so I couldn't really afford another iPod,… 2 times in the scene
Brian Halligan: Building HubSpot into a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 22:17 Brian Halligan It was like a year after the iPod came out and it was on fire. 3 times in the scene
99% of founders SUCK at storytelling. Here's the pro who taught Slack & Salesforce how to do it. ... · PMF Show
- ▶ 38:51 Matthew Dicks When Steve Jobs said an iPod is a thousand songs in your pocket, he didn't say a thousand songs in your pocket. 2 times in the scene
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:30:48 Ben Gilbert The iPod was a smash hit.
- ▶ 2:30:55 Ben Gilbert Your iPod attach rate with Macs is actually working.
- ▶ 2:31:34 David Rosenthal And what did the iPod do?
- ▶ 3:01:42 David Rosenthal The iPod was an aesthetic revolution.
- ▶ 4:15:24 Ben Gilbert Is it winning against iPod?
What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author)
- ▶ 7:51 Rory Sutherland Was preceded by the iPod.
Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- ▶ 1:17:53 Mike Maples, Jr. And he goes back and forth between how bad the current stat state of things is, how it should be, how bad it is, how it should be introducing the iPhone, how bad it was, how awesome it's going to be.
- ▶ 1:35:34 Mike Maples, Jr. You couldn't reconcile it with the original business of the Mac and not really even the iPod.
How To Sell Like Steve Jobs
- ▶ 10:36 David Senra I mean, they have a lot of great taglines in the book, but I feel I can't think of another product that has a better tagline than the original iPod and their tagline was, was very simple. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:54 David Senra Uh, so I just talked about the first one, iPod, 1000 songs in your pocket.
How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
- ▶ 38:34 David Senra The iPod really was the product that helped Apple turn the corner. 2 times in the scene
The Simple Newsletter Making $20M+ A Year With 1 Employee
- ▶ 17:39 Kevin Van Trump That's something like an iPod.
American Giant: Bayard Winthrop
- ▶ 36:22 Bayard Winthrop In medical devices and working on the early Apple iPod. 2 times in the scene
Ben Chestnut: The Top 10 Learnings Scaling Mailchimp to $1B ARR
- ▶ 13:02 Ben Chestnut Um, uh, really just for afford- On an iPod. 2 times in the scene
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