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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where PalmPilot comes up on How I Built This, 20VC, Acquired, All-In, A Product Market Fit Show
Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- ▶ 3:13 Alex Rampell And the fact that, I mean, I wouldn't have guessed in, I mean, you obviously did, because the, uh, Confinity was, was Palm Pilot sending money, so you're, you're ahead of the whole PDA wave, but I wouldn't have guessed that those three…
Arm’s $15B Chip Bet, Sanders & AOC vs Datacenters, Meta & YouTube Lose Trial | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:13 Turner Novak So there's something called a Palm pilot and basically it was iPhone size screen 2 times in the scene
Why AI will dwarf every tech revolution before it: robots, manufacturing, AR glasses from CES 2026
- ▶ 45:57 Jason Calacanis How many people owned Palm, a pilot?
The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
- ▶ 54:46 Alex Rampell There's this great episode where Jerry buys his father a sharp wizard, which was like an early Palm pilot.
Business Expert: The BEST Way To Make Millions In Profit | Mike Michalowicz
- ▶ 30:13 Mike Michalowicz This is when the, you remember the, you don't remember the Palm Pilot, you're way too young. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
- ▶ 1:33:39 Gavin Baker You know, there was the, you know, there was the Palm pilot.
Tom Lee: Decoding the AI Trade, Bitcoin Predictions & What an AI Black Swan Event Might Look Like
How $100B Mercado Libre got started—& why it almost went bankrupt after 9 months. | Hernan Kazah,... · PMF Show
- ▶ 11:38 Hernan Kazah At that time was the, the Palm Pilot. 3 times in the scene
Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal
- ▶ 37:17 Sachin Kansal Palm, the Palm Pilot.
- ▶ 1:10:54 Sachin Kansal I was at Palm a long time ago, uh, Palm, you know, developed the Palm Pilot, uh, and then it went into the phone business, uh, some of your listeners may have used them, some of your listeners may be too young to, to remember, and then…
Missing PayPal and Google Made Him a Better Investor | Ali Partovi on TBPN
- ▶ 10:03 Ali Partovi It was like an app for the Palm Pilot to send money with infrared.
Skype and Kazaa: Niklas Zennström
- ▶ 35:46 Niklas Zennström Compact, um, Palm Pilots. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:04 Guy Raz By this point, when you, when you release a beta version, the original idea was let's put this on like these, these personal devices, these like Palm pilot type devices.
It took him 7 years to hit $1M ARR—now his $1B public company does $1M every day. | Noah Glass, F... · PMF Show
- ▶ 4:55 Noah Glass And I had this, I guess have lucky insight of carrying around a Palm pilot. 3 times in the scene
Episode 747 | Evolving SaaS Customer Success Over 7 Years (with J...
- ▶ 11:09 Rob Walling There's an old book by Jeffrey Moore called Crossing the Chasm, and I believe it came out in like the early nineties maybe, and the book was more written for like large-scale adoption of, think of like palm pilots.
Jon Glidden - Delta Airlines Pension Fund Turnaround (EP.417)
- ▶ 9:36 Jon Glidden And you had stuff like Palm Pilots.
Break up Google, Starbucks CEO out, Kamala’s price controls, Boeing disaster, Kursk offensive
- ▶ 3:10 Jason Calacanis On a Palm Pilot. 3 times in the scene
The social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon | Jessica Livingston (co-founder of YC, author)
- ▶ 19:51 Jessica Livingston The famous like PayPal story, how did, how it started off being, you know, the Palm Pilot, you know, or money transfer and money transfer between the Palm Pilots or whatever. 2 times in the scene
Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)
- ▶ 32:37 Chris Dixon I mean, for those who were involved in tech, as I was, there was Blackberry, Sidekick, Trio, Palm Pilot.
Trung Phan on The Hustle, ChatGPT, and TikTok
- ▶ 37:58 Greg Isenberg And Apple knew a few of those apps because from, you know, 2000 to 2008, there was a huge industry around pocket PCs, which were just mobile windows and Palm pilots that we like often forget about.
Generative search
- ▶ 29:13 Benedict Evans Um, I mean, the same thing with, um, I mean, I, you know, my, my, my sort of, you know, I was a baby investment banker in sort of 1909, 2002 1001, and I have a Palm Pilot, which has no network, which has a one 60 by one 60 pixel back and…
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 18:26 David Rosenthal They had done PalmPilot.
- ▶ 18:27 David Rosenthal Remember PalmPilot?
- ▶ 31:58 David Rosenthal And in his venture career, he was the one who did Palm Pilot.
- ▶ 1:11:35 David Rosenthal Pretty much the whole pen computing space, except arguably Palm Pilot, didn't really pan out.
- ▶ 2:06:27 David Rosenthal They were selling this new device, you know, PalmPilots at the tech conference, you know, it's like a, ah, you know, like a new next wave of technology, and obviously Bruce was on the board, he didn't, you know, wasn't focused on that at…
- ▶ 2:06:50 David Rosenthal So Bill bought the PalmPilot and then just started spamming everybody with their fax numbers for
- ▶ 2:07:25 David Rosenthal And then he added to the contact list from the Palm Pilot with fax numbers.
PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)
- ▶ 31:38 Max Levchin And this is long, long, long pre iPhone, but this is right around the time of the heyday of the Palm pilot. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:48 Max Levchin The, the very original name was Fieldlink because the idea was you would have all these salespeople in the field and they would have secrets on their Palm Pilots and you would have to encrypt those secrets.
- ▶ 43:05 Guy Raz So Peter is a CEO and you are presumably the head of technology and you're, you're, you're trying to develop this, you know, this crypto, um, software that will encrypt data between Palm pilots. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:49 Max Levchin You're not going to write them down, but if you have a Palm pilot and they have a Palm pilot, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:26 Guy Raz Was it a website, or was it still focused on doing it through PalmPilots? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:01 Guy Raz And I think we should be clear here, which is you, you'd mostly created this thing to be used on Palm Pilots, right?
Tony Fadell: Product Marketing Lessons I Learned from Steve Jobs | 20VC #884 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:20 Tony Fadell They were precursors to, you know, kind of the handhelds we have today, but they were like Palm pilots, these kinds of things. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Scaling to $122M ARR IPO with $6M in Net Burn, Olo. The Ultimate Journey of Capital Efficiency, What Worked, What Did Not Work and How Leaders Need To Reshape Thinking Around Resource and Attention Allocation
- ▶ 3:55 Noah Glass And when I moved here, I was one of those weird people in 2003 carrying around a Palm Pilot personal digital assistant.
20VC: How I Lost a $125M Deal with Yahoo by Being Too Honest, The M&A Meeting with Steve Jobs That Did Not Go Well and How U2's Bono Saved The Day For One Tech Startup with Ali Partovi, CEO @ Neo
- ▶ 24:52 Ali Partovi It was this app for Palm Pilots to zap money using infrared. 2 times in the scene
Bill Trenchard - First Round Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.23)
- ▶ 18:43 Bill Trenchard At the time, it was the handheld product was the Palm Pilot, which is kind of really crazy to think that that was the state of the art at the time, but we would talk about building apps for that, and we'd be excited about some of the cool…
20VC: Deliveroo Founder Will Shu on The IPO This Year, The Rise of Quick Commerce and The Fierce Competition with Uber Eats
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 9:51 Jeff Hausenbold Five hundred million units of last year's Palm pilot at the time, they would be able to
Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- ▶ 27:28 Chris Dixon There's the early Palm pilots.
The paradox of Apple
- ▶ 28:56 Benedict Evans But yes, I've got a, I've got, I've got a box of, like, 75 phones with, like, an original Palm Pilot and all of those things. things.
E5: WHO's incompetence, kicking off Cold War II, China's grand plan, 100X'ing American efficiency
- ▶ 5:41 Jason Calacanis Uh, they were a bunch of huge nerds who created a way to transfer money on Palm Pilots called PayPal. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Future of Subscription Media, Why Startups Need To Stop Blaming Facebook and Google & How Founders Should Think Through Customer Acquisition Channel Dependencies with Alex Mather, Founder & CEO @ The Athletic
- ▶ 3:23 Alex Mather Yeah, for me, I started as an engineer early on in my career, and kind of actually all goes back to the Palm Pilot. 2 times in the scene
#77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future
- ▶ 1:09:33 Mike Maples Jr. Beaming money on Palm Pilots and emailing payments.
20VC: Raising $105m in Just 13 Months Over 3 Separate Rounds, The 5 Core Ways VCs Can Add Value & How Founders Can and Should Fully Leverage Their Cap Table with Kurt Rathmann, Founder & CEO @ ScaleFactor
- ▶ 4:17 Kurt Rathmann And so hooking a QuickBooks desktop computer to a Palm pilot with a very expensive at the time, three G cell signal to try to make it remote and work that way was really the beginning of saying, Hey, there's an operational problem to solve…
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- ▶ 13:10 Nathan Latka Ok, when you're sitting there and you go home, like, dinner with your wife, and you're going, honey, like, look, well, I guess you didn't have phone to point out, like, the stock charts, but you said, hey, honey, look at the printouts,…
a16z Podcast | Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes)
- ▶ 13:44 Benedict Evans But then I was looking at the interface, and it reminded me a lot of my Palm Pilot 15 years ago.
Uncut Interview with Sam Altman on Masters of Scale [Audio] · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:35 Sam Altman Um, it still feels like we're at the, the Palm Pilot, not the iPhone era. 4 times in the scene