Apple, every mention
62 scenes (2021), the whole family · ← back to Apple
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every year 2021 anyone Jason Calacanis 709Chamath Palihapitiya 199David Sacks 151David Friedberg 110Brad Gerstner 19Gavin Baker 14Thomas Laffont 8Reid Hoffman 7Pat Gelsinger 7Rene Haas 6
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Apple comes up
E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- ▶ 25:42 Jason Calacanis Apple is about to hit three trillion. 2 times in the scene
E56: Constitution DAO, Rittenhouse trial coverage, private sector efficiency vs the government
- ▶ 1:10:16 Chamath Palihapitiya Like Apple.
E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
- ▶ 1:16:02 David Friedberg Well, look at Apple.
- ▶ 1:18:31 Jason Calacanis And just to, to put this all in perspective, the stock buybacks that are going on right now, Apple did almost twenty billion dollars last quarter. 7 times in the scene
E54: Spread trading big tech, capital allocation, Zillow's misfire, Progressives suffer losses
- ▶ 8:09 Chamath Palihapitiya Meaning you can, you can very comfortably short Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and be long Microsoft, Google. 4 times in the scene
E53: Wealth tax, inflation as a capital allocator, big tech earnings, paternity leave & more
- ▶ 55:05 Chamath Palihapitiya I would say interesting products that are growing well, but they may not actually be very important companies, yet they trade at enormous valuations, and then you have these companies that are just so superb, and I'm talking about…
- ▶ 59:08 Chamath Palihapitiya I mean, just to which is now the most valuable company in the world greater than Apple and Friedberg has been saying this on the podcast forever. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:28 David Friedberg For example, this Apple, you know, ad revenue business, I think is climbing by billions of dollars while Facebook's core business is being affected by the cookie tracking policy change on Apple iOS. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:25 Chamath Palihapitiya I think on the meta thing, I think the, the risk is if Google and Apple take the hardware costs to zero, because I think there's an incentive in a highly fragmented ecosystem. 4 times in the scene
E51: Supply Chain Shortages, Inflation, DeSantis, Ted Sarandos Netflix Memo, Cancel Culture, Fan Q&A
- ▶ 5:08 Jason Calacanis So people are buying second computers, third computers, places like Dell are having an Apple are selling a lot of desktops, a lot of laptops.
- ▶ 22:29 David Friedberg Like Amazon, sorry, like Microsoft, Oracle, Google, where you are actually seeing an Apple, you're getting dividends, and you're getting share buybacks, where the cash is coming out of the business.
- ▶ 48:57 Jason Calacanis You brought this up before, Saks, the real-world harm concept with, um, Apple and, uh, Antonio.
E49: Coinbase CEO reflects on controversial blog, state of the markets, 1000 unicorns & more
- ▶ 15:19 David Sacks And, you know, the alternative to Coinbase, you know, one of the other companies we've talked about is Apple. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:11 Jason Calacanis And, you know, this is a road to nowhere for Apple. 6 times in the scene
Balaji Srinivasan: role of decentralization, China/US breakdown & more
- ▶ 14:45 David Friedberg You know, the, the, the, the Napster concept, it was really supposed to be true peer to peer file sharing, and it ended up becoming the iTunes store where everything sat on Apple servers, and they ultimately served everything out.
- ▶ 58:55 Jason Calacanis Facebook is admitting for the first time this week that Apple's privacy updates are hurting their ad business.
- ▶ 1:05:53 Balaji Srinivasan And so when we talk about an edge case like that, I mean, the CSAM stuff, child porn, you know, that was, that's used by Apple to justify intrusive devices that are scanning everybody's stuff.
E45: Theranos & VC fraud risks, China bans video games, Texas SB8, Apple app store, CA fires, Rogan
- ▶ 55:13 Jason Calacanis Uh, Apple allowing people to link to their own websites. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:37 Jason Calacanis So Apple music, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:41 Jason Calacanis Apple TV plus now with Ted Lasso is competing against Netflix.
- ▶ 1:00:46 Jason Calacanis They watch Netflix and I signed up for Apple arcade for my daughters because I didn't want them to be paying for, um, like, you know, in-app purchases.
- ▶ 1:01:01 Jason Calacanis And I pay for the news product.
E43: Innovative venture strategies, Zymergen's implosion, Square acquires Afterpay & more
- ▶ 1:14:08 Chamath Palihapitiya Goldman Sachs and Apple are about to do something there with Buy Now, Pay Later as well for themselves. 2 times in the scene
E42: China's tech crackdown, CRISPR breakthrough, practical climate change solutions & more
- ▶ 19:18 Jason Calacanis You have to let other app stores in Apple or, you know, just coming down and saying to Amazon, you can't sell Amazon basics anymore in 30 days.
- ▶ 26:48 David Sacks No matter, you know, how much I want, you know, apple to be reined in that they don't have that, that again, that separate,
E40: A Bestie gets COVID, Delta breakthrough, Billionaire Space Race & more
- ▶ 31:36 Chamath Palihapitiya Whether you like it or not, but this is, this is where the next petition will come from Apple, where the two or 3000 employees who are vaccinated, et cetera, who have people with, you know, um, people in their households with, with, uh,… 2 times in the scene
E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
- ▶ 1:14:26 David Friedberg Because if they rewrite the laws, it could be impactful to Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, you know, everyone. 2 times in the scene
E37: NYC rejects far-left candidates, new developments in lab leak theory, App Store breakup & more
- ▶ 45:12 Jason Calacanis Apple, the NBA and Disney do not want to decouple. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:08 Jason Calacanis So, uh, in somewhat related news, uh, Apple obviously, uh, building all their phones over there and now having servers and data over there. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:00 David Friedberg The Apple argument is that the quality of the quality of I think I just think it's a little bit short sighted for us to all jump to say let's break up big tech like the quality of what no no no over the last decade is incredible. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:25 David Sacks I want to end the Apple segment on, on, um, on AGM's article, which was called bad apple. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:24 David Friedberg I think that over the next decade, because of exactly what you guys said, that Apple is run by managers who don't want to see loss, but aren't driven to gain, you're going to end up seeing Amazon in particular, and Apple likely as well, 2 times in the scene
E36: New FTC Chair, breaking up big tech, government silent spying, Jon Stewart, wildfires & more
- ▶ 6:17 Jason Calacanis And she gave very pragmatic examples like maybe separating Google Maps from Android and when you turn on your Android phone, you would have to install maps or maybe you would pick from the different maps that are out there different…
- ▶ 8:26 David Sacks With Apple and Google and the app stores, we had a congressional hearing pretty recently in which you had Spotify on other apps complaining about what Apple was doing to them saying they are making our service non-viable with the 30% rate… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:53 David Sacks Apple is doing this to basically make us, uh, infeasible relative to Apple music.
- ▶ 19:31 Jason Calacanis And, you know, app stores are allowed on, um, Apple's platform, uh, iOS for the first time. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:10 David Friedberg You know, imagine if Apple didn't have Apple Maps pre installed on the iPhone, everyone would download and use Google Maps, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:43 Jason Calacanis Apple had a gag order. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:14 Jason Calacanis Apple did not remove.
E35: Biogen's controversial Alzheimer's drug approval, the billionaire space race, Bitcoin & more
- ▶ 43:36 Jason Calacanis Apple employees wrote a letter about Apple's demand, using air quotes here, that people come back to work three days a week. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:58 David Sacks My, my problem is with the fact that the Apple employees, um, keep doing what they do, which is sign these petitions. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:59 David Sacks You know, we should be encouraging them to have these great experiences, and this is why I kind of react to these like Apple snowflakes who don't want to come into their billion-dollar spaceship campus. 6 times in the scene
E34: Wuhan lab leak theory, India's traceability law, Coinbase fact check, Big Tech takes Hollywood
- ▶ 55:34 David Sacks So, so, so here's the thing with the telcos, the telecom stack is, is we know that tech is taking over Hollywood, but the question is what part of the tech stack and what's happened is the part of the tech stack that has the direct… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:40 Jason Calacanis And that's starting to a Patreon and then Apple is now no, no, no, Spotify is doing paid content.
E33: Apple’s hypocrisy, America fails math, crypto’s regulatory correction, Clubhouse, UFOs & more
- ▶ 1:23 Jason Calacanis I guess we should talk about this Apple story with Antonio Garcia Martinez. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:07 David Sacks I think companies in startups are increasingly have to choose whether they want to be Apple or whether they want to be, um, Coinbase or Shopify for that matter. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:56 Jason Calacanis Why should you put your wise Apple?
- ▶ 50:48 Jason Calacanis Apple, 2000 signatures from Apple to remove all in from the podcasting app. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:48 Jason Calacanis Apple, 2000 signatures from Apple to remove all in from the podcasting app. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:44 Jason Calacanis And they also have Apple's entire center is controlled by the Chinese government.
E32: Behind the scenes of Elon hosting SNL, CDC failures, America's real-time UBI experiment & more
- ▶ 18:47 David Sacks I mean, I was there, this is the first time I've watched live TV in like 10 years, ever since Apple TV was invented.
E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
- ▶ 1:09:29 Chamath Palihapitiya Number one, the second thing that I'll say is the Apple Facebook thing is a very important canary in the coal mine as well. 7 times in the scene
E30: Ramifications of Biden's proposed capital gains tax hike, founder psychology & more
- ▶ 1:19:13 Jason Calacanis Um, he was so excited about Ted Lasso and Ted Lasso is a great show, but I mean, it literally is the, the Apple, uh, show.
- ▶ 1:19:31 Jason Calacanis TV plus. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:35 Jason Calacanis Apple TV plus. 4 times in the scene
E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more
- ▶ 21:36 Jason Calacanis Our companies were able to grow and become the dominant players in the world like Apple, but an Amazon, right?
E24: Markets trend down, political pandemic manipulation, stimulus breakdown, biological Patriot Act
- ▶ 1:40 Jason Calacanis Checking the Apple stock app, hitting refresh, and going, thank God these companies have fundamentals, because I haven't seen this much blood since Game of Thrones.
- ▶ 11:01 Chamath Palihapitiya Since 2010 where you would have made more money than being long Facebook and Google and Apple and Amazon was being long United Healthcare, Cigna, Wellspring.
E20: Robinhood wrap up, Insiders vs. Outsiders, California's failing report card & how to fix it
- ▶ 1:16:26 Chamath Palihapitiya I mean, these are like, I know people think that's also stupid, but like, you know, if all we did was just own one percent of Apple, Google, Facebook, you'd have three trillion dollars, four trillion dollars, trillion with a T.
E17: Big Tech bans Trump, ramifications for the First Amendment & the open Internet
- ▶ 1:08 Jason Calacanis Episode 16 hit number two in the, uh, rankings on the, uh, Apple iTunes podcasting store.
- ▶ 32:47 David Sacks You also had the deep platforming of parlor, which is sort of the Twitter alternative by Google and Apple at the same time and in Amazon. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:20 David Sacks Some of Trump's treat, uh, tweets for incitement consistent with the first amendment, but that's not what they did, you know, that, and maybe that would say what they did is a lifetime ban combined with rounding up, you know, twice the… 2 times in the scene