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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where iPhone comes up
Top 5 of 2025: #4: Alex Sacerdote
- ▶ 12:21 Alex Sacerdote This was right at the cusp of the iPhone, because I started Whale Rock in oh six. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:30 Alex Sacerdote There were smartphones before the iPhone, but they were big, clunky, hard to use.
- ▶ 46:35 Alex Sacerdote 99 crash after that, there wasn't a major new product cycle, and then you had oh eight, but in the middle of oh eight, the iPhone came out, so then you had mobile cloud thereafter.
Matthew Dicks – Storytelling Mastery (EP.477)
- ▶ 1:00:34 Matthew Dicks If you watch Steve Jobs' 2007 iPhone launch, he uses steak, suspense, surprise, and humor. 4 times in the scene
Mason Morfit and Rob Hale – Quiet Activism at ValueAct (EP.462)
- ▶ 28:43 Mason Morfit To the tune of four or five, six billion dollars a year that might be better spent driving Office three 65 in Azure instead of trying to chase the iPhone or chase the Google search dream.
Hugh MacArthur – Private Equity's Challenges and Opportunities (EP.453)
- ▶ 1:06:23 Hugh MacArthur But my point is we're now at the iPhone and the iPhone has changed everybody's life in incredibly dramatic ways that no one would ever have thought of in 1984, looking at that Macintosh computer. 4 times in the scene
Asset Management Consolidation - Simon Krinsky, Hall Capital and Tim McCusker, NEPC (EP.421)
- ▶ 56:49 Simon Krinsky It's a proper, delightful, elegant dinner, and then it devolves into karaoke, which I tend to lead, and I don't love the iPhone era.
Kristof Gleich – Boutique Managers and Active ETFs at Harbor Capital (EP.411)
- ▶ 48:07 Kristof Gleich Imagine if I got an iPhone out from 15 years ago and said, hey, this thing is exactly the same as it was 15 years ago, Apple would be out of business.
Mike Maples Jr. - Identifying Startup Pattern Breakers (EP.406)
- ▶ 24:22 Mike Maples, Jr. So a good example of an inflection is the iPhone four S shipped with a GPS chip in it.
- ▶ 26:19 Ted Seides So you mentioned the shipping of the GPS chip inside the iPhone as an inflection.
- ▶ 58:48 Mike Maples, Jr. If you had had the idea for ride sharing before the iPhone four S had a GPS chip, you could have been right about the future, but you wouldn't have been able to build a system that embodied your idea about the future. 2 times in the scene
Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)
- ▶ 22:59 Chris Dixon You can make a game for it, a social network, a financial service, whatever you dream up, you can make in the same way that whatever you dream up for the iPhone, you can make and submit to the app store.
- ▶ 29:17 Ted Seides When you look at the innovation and technology development over say the last couple of years, there's waiting for this iPhone moment at some point in time that could happen. 6 times in the scene
Shiloh Bates – CLO Investing at Flat Rock Global (EP.379)
- ▶ 32:45 unnamed speaker iPhone and Samsung phones, the insurance contracts.
Rick Heitzmann – New York Venture Investing at FirstMark Capital (EP.350)
- ▶ 28:39 Rick Heitzman The iPhone was about four or five months old at the time.
Alan Forman – Yale Endowment Real Estate (EP.340)
- ▶ 5:18 Ted Seides Before we get going, I recently bought a new iPhone.
- ▶ 27:55 Alan Forman You have to realize at the time, there was no iPod, iPad, iPhone.
Stan Miranda – Modern Endowment Model at Partners Capital (EP.334)
- ▶ 5:52 Ted Seides Why not share some of that summer love by telling your fellow beach loungers, golf mates, tennis opponents, fellow fans, college-age children, or favorite professors of bygone days about the fascinating conversations awaiting them with the…
Michael Carmen – Late-Stage Private Investing at Wellington (EP.332)
- ▶ 28:52 Michael Carmen We needed the iPhone to be invented, so it took some additional development, but it wasn't a fake out from that perspective.
Eric Resnick – Ski, Golf, and Vacation Investing at KSL (EP.322)
- ▶ 13:37 Eric Resnick This is obviously before iPhones, because some of the KKR partners had them.
Jim Falbe – Modern Value Investing at Saguaro (Capital Allocators, EP.320)
Thomas Majewski – Empty Rooms: Masterclass on CLOs at Eagle Point Credit Management (Capital Allocators, EP. 284)
- ▶ 38:59 Tom Majewski On my iPhone even, I can see the portfolio and all the trades last month in that CLO, even if I'm not a party to the CLO.
Ted Seides – Insights on investing and podcasting (Capital Allocators, EP.269)
- ▶ 38:20 Ted Seides So if you look back, I mean, iPhone came out roughly, I guess it's just 15 years ago, so you look back 20 years ago, the technologies we use commonly today didn't exist.
Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34)
- ▶ 26:49 Avichal Garg They own iPhone.
Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- ▶ 23:27 Chris Dixon Most of the software on your iPhone, almost all software on your Android, all backend software is open source software, the same kind of thing.
- ▶ 26:42 Chris Dixon They tried to create an iPhone, but they were too early. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:53 Chris Dixon I don't want to create another cut the rope, the 18,000th puzzle game on the iPhone.
- ▶ 47:43 Chris Dixon Once the iPhone hit product market fit and sold a hundred million units, they could go and do all this amazing advancements in chips and optics and everything else.
Josh Wolfe – Caution and Innovation at Lux Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 8 (Capital Allocators, EP.236)
- ▶ 25:13 Josh Wolfe Today, if you access Facebook, you have to pick up an Apple iPhone, or you have to pick up a Google Android, or you have to log in on your MacBook, or your IBM PC, or, or Lenovo PC, or whatever it is, and they don't want that.
Aydin Senkut – Tenacious Sourcing and Founder Support at Felicis, Venture is Eating the Investment World 6 (Capital Allocators, EP.234)
- ▶ 12:34 Aydin Senkut There's, like, no internet, no computers, no iPhone.
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- ▶ 21:41 David Rosenthal A-sixteen Z started in 2008, 2009, and his whole thing, both, you know, Ben and Mark were, the whole thesis of the firm was there is no bubble, and these companies are gonna work, and we've got the iPhone now, we've got mobile, we've got…
- ▶ 53:25 Ben Gilbert They're not building iPhone apps.
Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain - Multicoin Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.20)
- ▶ 39:33 Kyle Samani Everyone in the world, both in the United States and outside United States has seen what the internet and the iPhone has done, Uber and Airbnb and all these apps.
- ▶ 57:40 Tushar Jain And we think it's possible because crypto has had its iPhone moment. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:58 Kyle Samani I remember they were beating every single earnings and we understood that this thing was going to change the world and the world don't understand that the iPhone was going to change the world. 2 times in the scene
Richard Tedlow - Charismatic Business Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.222)
- ▶ 20:30 Richard Tedlow That Jobs would have run the General Motors of 1955, as it is that Harlow Curtis would have run Apple in 20 oh seven, which is the year the iPhone was introduced. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:46 Richard Tedlow And so he created the iPhone, which is beautiful. 4 times in the scene
Jordi Visser – Analytics and AQ at Weiss (Capital Allocators, EP.221)
- ▶ 48:28 Jordi Visser Well, the iPhone is letting you learn a lot of different things the way polymaths did. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:34 Jordi Visser Now, when I say that is I need to start winding down and no more work, no more phone, no more getting distracted on things, and the iPhone is different than a television. 2 times in the scene
Alex Rodriguez – Business after Baseball (Capital Allocators, EP.198)
- ▶ 6:15 Alex Rodriguez They call my father like the calculator because obviously there was no iPhones and he can like figure out all the numbers in his head.
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 15:51 Jeff Hausenbold Either the thing will keep shrinking, or they'll be in a device called an iPhone, but everyone will have a digital camera in their pocket.
- ▶ 26:47 Jeff Hausenbold Masa had an exclusive to sell the iPhone in Japan, was very close to Steve Jobs.
Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- ▶ 27:00 Chris Dixon People today might think it began with the iPhone. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:19 Ted Seides So I'd love to turn to crypto and blockchain in particular, and maybe start with this notion of when you go through the example of an iPhone, you have Apple. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:24 Chris Dixon So the iPhone came out in 2007. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:38 Chris Dixon I think with respect to crypto blockchains, we are pre iPhone moment. 3 times in the scene
James Clear – Mastering Habits (Capital Allocators, EP.171)
- ▶ 9:21 James Clear Like one of my first ideas was this iPhone app that I tried to create, which you don't need to be very good at math to know that this is a bad idea.
Morgan Housel – The Psychology of Money (Capital Allocators, EP.155)
- ▶ 46:24 Morgan Housel The iPhone is what has made the entire company.
Sustainable Investing 1: Wendy Cromwell – The $170 Trillion Opportunity (Capital Allocators, EP.139)
- ▶ 1:04:29 Wendy Cromwell So you, Ted, might have bought the iPhone one, 3 times in the scene
Greg Fleming – Building and Running Rockefeller Capital Management (Capital Allocators, EP.125)
- ▶ 1:01:01 Greg Fleming For the iPhone, it was four. 2 times in the scene
James Aitken – Tour Around the World from a Small Island (Capital Allocators, EP.122)
- ▶ 1:06:46 James Aitken I have taken the Twitter app off my iPhone, and I've tried to make it almost impossible for me to log on, and I have done an override on our broadband coming into our homes, so none of us, neither the wife, nor children, nor me can access…
Khe Hy – Radical Shift from Investing to Purpose (Capital Allocators, EP.101)
David Zorub - The Path to a Hedge Fund Launch (Capital Allocators, EP.96)
- ▶ 5:48 Ted Seides The intention is to take out your iPhone, look at that little purple app with a microphone.
Jordi Visser – Next Generation of Manager Allocation (Capital Allocators, EP.92)
- ▶ 27:03 Jordi Visser Uh, we've had plenty of little cycles, but the iPhone came into existence in June of oh seven. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:13 Jordi Visser And even though that'll continue, I think that was pretty much when the iPhone came in, we've, we've had a good run with technology.
Annie Duke – Thinking More in Bets (Capital Allocators, EP.76)
- ▶ 6:25 Ted Seides If what we're saying bores you, as we all have done, I've been sitting there too, and you take out your iPhone during this, go to your Amazon app, click it, it's fine, we don't mind, just click Thinking of Bets, buy a copy.
James Aitken – Macro Strategist Extraordinaire (Capital Allocators, EP.58)
- ▶ 1:25:50 James Aitken You can't lecture two preteen girls about the evils of the iPhone, which I sometimes do, if you're walking around your living area with an iPhone in your pocket.
Michael Cembalest – Eye on the Market (Capital Allocators, EP.49)
- ▶ 57:19 Michael Cembalest I just got my first iPhone a year and a half ago, but there are smarter people on that around here who take care of that.
Margaret Chen – Leadership and Outsourcing the Investment Office (Capital Allocators, EP.35)
- ▶ 32:20 Margaret Chen That, that's perfectly fine to be just in the S&P and say you have cash effects income, but just like we wouldn't think that we'd be having an iPhone that has more power than our, you know, than the mainframe computer in the seventies,…
Scott Malpass – The Fighting Irish's Twelfth Man (Capital Allocators, EP.25)
- ▶ 45:17 Scott Malpass iPhone and get on, get on the phone and call someone.
Steven Galbraith – Five Tool Player (Capital Allocators, EP.01)
- ▶ 1:02:46 Steve Galbraith They, they, you know, they get iPhones, they get business cards, they get all the resources they need, and then the final thing we've done, Ted, and this is kind of success's secret sauce, is