iPhone
includes iPhone 4S
4 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 11, 2021 by Chris Dixon · said 99 times in 42 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Chris Dixon (16), Ted Seides (15), Jordi Visser (7), Richard Tedlow (6), Alex Sacerdote (5), Tushar Jain (4), Matthew Dicks (4), Hugh MacArthur (4)
tap a year for its mentions
2025 14 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
2024 14 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)
- Mike Maples Jr. - Identifying Startup Pattern Breakers (EP.406)
- Asset Management Consolidation - Simon Krinsky, Hall Capital and Tim McCusker, NEPC (EP.421)
- Kristof Gleich – Boutique Managers and Active ETFs at Harbor Capital (EP.411)
- Shiloh Bates – CLO Investing at Flat Rock Global (EP.379)
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 7 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Alan Forman – Yale Endowment Real Estate (EP.340)
- Rick Heitzmann – New York Venture Investing at FirstMark Capital (EP.350)
- Stan Miranda – Modern Endowment Model at Partners Capital (EP.334)
- Michael Carmen – Late-Stage Private Investing at Wellington (EP.332)
- Eric Resnick – Ski, Golf, and Vacation Investing at KSL (EP.322)
- Jim Falbe – Modern Value Investing at Saguaro (Capital Allocators, EP.320)
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 13 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- Thomas Majewski – Empty Rooms: Masterclass on CLOs at Eagle Point Credit Management (Capital Allocators, EP. 284)
- Ted Seides – Insights on investing and podcasting (Capital Allocators, EP.269)
- Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34)
- Josh Wolfe – Caution and Innovation at Lux Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 8 (Capital Allocators, EP.236)
- Aydin Senkut – Tenacious Sourcing and Founder Support at Felicis, Venture is Eating the Investment World 6 (Capital Allocators, EP.234)
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 33 mentions in 7 episodes 5 per episode
- Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain - Multicoin Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.20)
- Richard Tedlow - Charismatic Business Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.222)
- Jordi Visser – Analytics and AQ at Weiss (Capital Allocators, EP.221)
- Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- Alex Rodriguez – Business after Baseball (Capital Allocators, EP.198)
- James Clear – Mastering Habits (Capital Allocators, EP.171)
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Sustainable Investing 1: Wendy Cromwell – The $170 Trillion Opportunity (Capital Allocators, EP.139)
- Greg Fleming – Building and Running Rockefeller Capital Management (Capital Allocators, EP.125)
- Morgan Housel – The Psychology of Money (Capital Allocators, EP.155)
- James Aitken – Tour Around the World from a Small Island (Capital Allocators, EP.122)
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2018 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Annie Duke – Thinking More in Bets (Capital Allocators, EP.76)
- James Aitken – Macro Strategist Extraordinaire (Capital Allocators, EP.58)
- Michael Cembalest – Eye on the Market (Capital Allocators, EP.49)
- Margaret Chen – Leadership and Outsourcing the Investment Office (Capital Allocators, EP.35)
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about iPhone, oldest first
Jan 11, 2021 positive
Dixon: Crypto is in 2004–2005 phase, years from an iPhone moment
“I think with respect to crypto blockchains, we are pre iPhone moment. Like we haven't had the breakthrough platform yet. I think we're somewhere, if you map it to mobile phones, let's say, I think we're probably 2004, 2005. I hope at least that we're like a ye…”
Nov 8, 2021 positive
Visser: Smartphones and YouTube foster Gen Z polymaths over specialists
“Well, the iPhone is letting you learn a lot of different things the way polymaths did. If you look up multi-potentiality, the Gen Zers that are like polymaths, they're doing different things in the school system. They are learning through YouTube.”
Nov 18, 2021 negative
Samani: He would not have built Pristine if he studied hardware history
“I was way over indexing on the iPhone and the iPad, which were the two most recent ones and what turned out to be two of the most exceptional ones. And not appreciating how difficult it is to do new form factors and not looking at the Newton and a bunch of oth…”
Dec 15, 2025 positive
Steve Jobs Mastered Four Key Storytelling Tactics in One Minute
“If you watch Steve Jobs' 2007 iPhone launch, he uses steak, suspense, surprise, and humor. All four of them in the 1:06 minutes of the presentation. He does it masterfully and brilliantly. He's not really telling a story. He's bringing out a new product for a …”