Steve Jobs, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Steve Jobs comes up
Ryan Lovell – Chainlink: The Infrastructure Pipes for Multi-Chain Finance (EP.491)
- ▶ 12:27 Ryan Lovell Steve Jobs says the computer is like the bicycle for the mine.
Katelin Holloway – Human Side of Venture Investing at 776 (EP.490)
- ▶ 1:51 Ted Seides We cover her upbringing, work alongside Steve Jobs at Pixar, and turnaround of Reddit with Alexis.
- ▶ 11:10 Katelin Holloway I was working directly with and for Steve Jobs, Ed Catmull, John Lasseter.
- ▶ 12:37 Katelin Holloway If anyone has read anything about Steve Jobs or Ed Catmull, they don't lead from that place. 10 times in the scene
Jonathan Lewinsohn – Credit Microcycles at Diameter (EP.484)
- ▶ 12:09 Jonathan Lewinsohn Steve Jobs announced the introduction of the iPad, which transformed work, and the first unitron transaction was done.
Top 5 of 2025: #4: Alex Sacerdote
- ▶ 15:39 Alex Sacerdote Steve Jobs fixed all that with a 200 dollar phone, a touch screen monitor that
- ▶ 35:20 Alex Sacerdote Everyone said when Steve Jobs left, the stock's going to be terrible, but he put that company in such an amazing position that it outlasted him.
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. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:15 Matthew Dicks Ideally, what they do is they recognize that when you're actually prepared and you perform, you can do what Steve Jobs does, which is have one of the greatest presentations about technology that ever existed. 3 times in the scene
Mike Maples Jr. - Identifying Startup Pattern Breakers (EP.406)
- ▶ 1:20:25 Mike Maples, Jr. It's like Steve Jobs would say, the world is built by people who are no smarter than you.
Classic Deal - Burger King by 3G Capital (EP.384)
- ▶ 1:09:17 Alex Behring One of these people like a Steve Jobs or someone that's really, really smart and the genius that will be able to convert our so-so or a bad business into a great business.
Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)
- ▶ 32:54 Chris Dixon You had the greatest genius of the twentyth century in computing, Steve Jobs, come in, which certainly doesn't hurt.
Michael Milken – Innovations in Finance, Medicine, and Education (EP.371)
- ▶ 30:03 Michael Milken And Steve Jobs often wrote early in his career, it's not the capital you have, and it's not the amount of money you're spending on research.
Michael Mauboussin - Pattern Recognition and Public Markets (EP.370)
- ▶ 45:56 Michael Mauboussin It was great at the outset, and then it had a really, really dark period, and then this wealth creation phase since Steve Jobs' two-oh.
Morgan Housel – Same as Ever (EP.359)
- ▶ 18:42 Morgan Housel I think someone like Steve Jobs was so brilliant in his communication, both for Apple products, but just 3 times in the scene
Alan Forman – Yale Endowment Real Estate (EP.340)
- ▶ 27:38 Alan Forman We spoke to Steve Jobs, and he explained his vision for the business, which, to be honest, is exactly what turned out to be the case today. 4 times in the scene
Chris Sacca – Hustling to Save the Planet at Lowercarbon (Capital Allocators, EP.321)
- ▶ 24:57 Chris Sacca The only thread I was on with Steve Jobs ever was where he was telling us exactly how big that blue circle needed to be to tell you where you were on Google Maps. 2 times in the scene
David Abrams – Sports Ecosystem Investing at Velocity (Capital Allocators, EP. 303)
- ▶ 19:02 David Abrams So I went a couple times to meet the university and meet the individual engineers who started the company, and when I went, there's a scene in, I forgot which Steve Jobs movie it is, but he's assembling computers in his garage, and he's…
Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- ▶ 47:03 Chris Dixon So PCs started off with hackers and Steve Jobs and Wozniak were at the homebrew computer club and it was a bunch of tinkerers.
- ▶ 51:29 Chris Dixon To me, a community is not when you look up to a leader like Steve Jobs.
Chris Voss – Listening, Human Nature, and Negotiations (Capital Allocators, EP.252)
- ▶ 31:56 Chris Voss Iger talks about how bad that was between Jobs and Eisner. 10 times in the scene
Annie Lamont – A Lifetime in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 9 (Capital Allocators, EP. 238)
- ▶ 8:04 Annie Lamont I carried Steve Jobs bags on the Apple IPO Roadshow, and I was just exposed to the two of the most amazing entrepreneurs ever, and I fell in love.
Fabrice Grinda – Canvassing Seed Stage Marketplaces at FJ Labs, Venture is Eating the Investment World 4 (Capital Allocators, EP.232)
- ▶ 10:02 Fabrice Grinda Reading and studying about it, I started following the lives of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, and in a way they became the role models. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:49 Fabrice Grinda Probably Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, because they were the people I looked up to as role models when I was 10 years old and onwards that ultimately led me down the entrepreneurial journey. 2 times in the scene
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- ▶ 1:04:11 David Rosenthal Doing acquired has changed my life beyond anything I've ever imagined, and it's such a, I mean, no way comparing myself to Steve Jobs by any means, but it's just that line that he has from the graduation speech of, like, you can't connect…
Bill Trenchard - First Round Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.23)
- ▶ 11:25 Bill Trenchard And it was the era of Steve Jobs and Wozniak in the early days of Apple.
- ▶ 14:15 Bill Trenchard The thing that I learned early on from looking at all those products, and I think I got a sense of, Steve Jobs had this famous saying about Microsoft.
Richard Tedlow - Charismatic Business Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.222)
- ▶ 11:48 Richard Tedlow Steve Jobs was still alive. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:53 Ted Seides Maybe we circle back a little bit and go through your book because the idea of an Elon Musk or a Steve Jobs leading companies hasn't always been this way. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:34 Richard Tedlow And you realize that it's actually kind of ugly, and that Steve Jobs always believed that technology alone is not enough. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:10 Ted Seides Some of these leaders that you talked about, a little bit of Steve Jobs and certainly Elon Musk, there's another side to them that you hear about. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:25 Richard Tedlow And so, I think that for them to follow a leader, a Steve Jobs, you gotta have charisma. 4 times in the scene
Satya Patel – Homebrew (Manager Meetings, EP.18)
- ▶ 33:56 Satya Patel It's where Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak met and started Apple Computer.
Eli Casdin – Casdin Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.02)
- ▶ 41:30 Eli Casdin I would think that if I had been old enough, and I was, you know, kind of a, uh, computer-y kid when I was growing up, if I'd gone to those software fairs in the late seventies, you might not have figured out Lotus or these other things,…
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 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)
- ▶ 30:44 Chris Dixon If you go back and read about like the early homebrew computer clubs, Steve jobs, et cetera, these were fringe people.
Greg Fleming – Building and Running Rockefeller Capital Management (Capital Allocators, EP.125)
- ▶ 8:05 Greg Fleming Well, it was a couple things, and I don't know that I took this lesson at the time, but over the course of my career, kind of lead up, and Steve Jobs famously said, I think to his group coming out of an offsite, we're going to have three…
Jason Karp – From Hedge Funds to Health and Wellness at HumanCo (First Meeting, EP.12)
- ▶ 54:16 Jason Karp It also requires a tremendous amount of what we call fanaticism, and I don't dare compare myself to Steve Jobs without sounding absurd, but what made Steve Jobs amazing was his fanaticism, and what I think 2 times in the scene
Dawn Fitzpatrick – Multi-Faceted Investing at Soros Fund Management (Capital Allocators, EP.112)
- ▶ 8:00 Dawn Fitzpatrick They were actually a beta test site for Steve Jobs Next, because they were one of the first trading kind of franchises to really embrace technology and compute power.
Michael Mauboussin – Active Challenges, Rational Decisions and Team Dynamics (Capital Allocators, EP.36)
- ▶ 1:09:19 Michael Mauboussin And, you know, there's a great section in the Steve Jobs book where his father taught him about, you know, it was like finishing the back end of something that no one would ever see, but it was just the right thing to do, right?
Ashby Monk – Asset Giant Futurist (Capital Allocators, EP.29)
- ▶ 58:08 Ashby Monk I mean, I have, so I'm not one of these people who can, like, easily just be like, yeah, like Steve Jabs, 2 times in the scene
Chatri Sityodtong – Warrior Spirit (Capital Allocators, EP.22)
- ▶ 38:30 Chatri Sityodtong And I say, I challenge any hedge funder to go out and do what Steve Jobs did.
Jennifer Heller – Thinking it Through (Capital Allocators, EP.07)
- ▶ 55:29 Jenny Heller So I've now made my way through Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, maybe some would argue he's great, some wouldn't, but I think there's some pretty fabulous things about him.