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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where iPhone comes up
Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI
- ▶ 20:31 Jason Calacanis Yeah, and it's just Android versus iPhone all over again.
Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters
- ▶ 38:26 Jason Calacanis Tang Tan, Apple's former VP of iPhone design, is OpenAI's chief hardware officer. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:33 Jason Calacanis It's just like the iPhone. 3 times in the scene
Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vibe Coding
- ▶ 3:48 Jason Calacanis You probably would have made chips for iPhone, which Intel passed on.
OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
- ▶ 29:09 Chamath Palihapitiya I think it's more that when the iPhone was a novelty, everybody would keep upgrading because you expected that the new price was worth it.
Open Source Wins, AGI Is Here, and Scorsese’s AI Toolkit with CEOs of Cerebras & Black Forest Labs
- ▶ 26:07 Jason Calacanis and we've always had just when you were releasing the new version of, um, an operating system, you know, when you have your iPhone, you can say, I want to be part of the beta.
AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie
- ▶ 23:22 Jason Calacanis Apple took a very strategic approach to wanting to build an app store business, to wanting to support developers, and they explicitly told people, if you make something super obvious that you can build in a week or two, it eventually might… 2 times in the scene
Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter
- ▶ 47:19 Gavin Baker Distillation is when you have, you know, a, a, like, you know, we all have seen videos of these Chinese iPhone farms, just picture a farm like that.
- ▶ 1:06:47 Gavin Baker So the high iPhone prices, you know, one CXMT is coming for consumer grade DRAM.
- ▶ 1:39:54 Jason Calacanis They're trying to get the new iPhone, 16 or 17.
Why Secondary Markets Are Eating the IPO | All-In Liquidity Secondary Markets Panel
- ▶ 5:46 Gavin Baker Absolutely, and Mark Zuckerberg, and basically the idea was, you know, the iPhone comes out, and initially there was not a big app ecosystem, and there was a thought that, hey, there's no need for apps, you're just gonna use the web… 2 times in the scene
Bill Ackman: Here's What the Market is MISSING
- ▶ 28:33 unnamed speaker And so I do think it has a profound impact because prior to your extremely long tweets that have been parodied now, there's an incredible meme of a Bill Ackman tweet coming in, which is an extended iPhone that's a foot tall.
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar: IPO, AI Rivalries, New Device, and Spending $100B+ on Compute
- ▶ 15:11 Sarah Friar Did you have an iPhone moment? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:16 Jason Calacanis iPhone, Meta, Advertising Network, and Google's Advertising Network.
Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño
- ▶ 56:19 Chamath Palihapitiya Like, don't we have an iPhone moment that we're just all going to be surprised by where somebody shows up and they're like this thing and you're like, oh my God, that's the thing.
How We Grew Koch Industries to $150 Billion Without Going Public: Charles & Chase Koch
- ▶ 41:17 Chase Koch This was a technology company, a connector and cabling and connector company, one of the largest in the world, um, that makes products in your iPhone and med tech products, your automobile.
Anthropic's Generational Run, OpenAI Panics, AI Moats, Meta Loses Major Lawsuits
- ▶ 43:23 David Sacks So I could imagine that even if, let's say, you know, Siri plus plus becomes the dominant way of interacting with your iPhone, you'll still want that Apple user interface.
Debt Spiral or NEW Golden Age? Super Bowl Insider Trading, Booming Token Budgets, Ferrari's New EV
- ▶ 5:40 Jason Calacanis And then it's just on your iPhone.
- ▶ 1:04:24 Jason Calacanis You, you have this beautiful square glass key, like an iPhone.
ICE Chaos in Minneapolis, Clawdbot Takeover, Why the Dollar is Dropping
- ▶ 54:37 David Friedberg But what I think people don't realize, it's almost like the first time you use FSD in your Tesla or the first time you used an iPhone, you realize that it's so much more that it widens the aperture of what's possible.
- ▶ 1:03:21 David Friedberg So yeah, ultimately these things end up on the, on the iPhone running locally, and you don't need to go to the cloud.
The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026
- ▶ 1:04:30 Jason Calacanis Do you trust signal and, uh, your iPhone to protect you as a corporate executive? 2 times in the scene
Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
- ▶ 1:11:40 Howard Lutnick Like, you think of a chip, think of a little teeny thing going in your iPhone, right?