Walkman
product on 16 shows · 4 statements across 2 episodes · said 70 times in 28 episodes since 2017
Acquired 19 
How I Built This 15 
Founders 13 
David Senra 5 
the Neon Show 3 
TBPN 3 
the a16z Podcast 2 
All-In 2 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
Founder's Journal 1 
We Live to Build 1 
American Optimist 1 
BigDeal 1 
My First Million 1 
Capital Allocators 1 
the Green Blueprint 1
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Acquired 19How I Built This 15Founders 13David Senra 5the Neon Show 3TBPN 3the a16z Podcast 2All-In 28 more shows
2026 12 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
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2025 12 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
2024 14 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
2023 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2022 22 mentions in 2 episodes 11 per episode
2021 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2019 2 mentions in 1 episode
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4 statements about Walkman, every show
Sony sold 400 million Walkmans despite initial internal pushback
“His own company tried to fight Akio and tell him, no, this is never going to work. Wines up selling like four hundred million units. One of the most successful consumer products of all time.”
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.”
Akio Morita pledged to resign if the initial Walkman production run flopped
“The sentiment on the board and in the company against Merida, Merida at this point is The CEO of Sony was so strong that he had to make a promise that if the initial 30,000 unit production run didn't sell by the end of the year that he would resign from Sony.”