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What comes after smartphones, with Evan Spiegel of Snap Apr 27, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 6:13 John Collison And meanwhile, the boss is like sent from my iPhone.
  • ▶ 11:30 John Collison And then everything collapsed into just the single, you know, iPhone, Android form factor, and there's just gonna be a big touch screen, and that's it.
  • ▶ 22:24 Evan Spiegel There's been five hundred billion selfies captured on iPhone this year, or something like that, and I, like, I sent a message to our team, I was like, that seems, like, so small.
  • ▶ 58:38 Evan Spiegel Like, if you think about Snapchat back in the day, you really needed an iPhone to be able to use the service. 3 times in the scene

The economics and trends of the restaurant industry, with Tony Xu of DoorDash Apr 21, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:31 John Collison Yeah, as I think back to, to 20 13 and those early days, the iPhone and the apps that were made possible by the iPhone was kind of the defining tech trend of the era. 3 times in the scene

The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai Apr 7, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:04 Sundar Pichai You know, I don't think people like wake up in a garage and ship a better iPhone.

The 20-year journey to fully autonomous cars with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo Mar 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 53:22 John Collison One of the new Porsches, I think it is, has inductive charging, like, just like your iPhone, where you just drive over the charging mat.

Bret Taylor of Sierra on AI agents, outcome-based pricing, and the OpenAI board Mar 10, 2026 · 2 mentions

Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime Mar 5, 2026 · 3 mentions

Reiner Pope of MatX on accelerating AI with transformer-optimized chips Feb 26, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 33:23 John Collison Apple has to discretize the iPhone release cycle and they've settled on, you know, once per year, and so they'll decide, you know, we've got this better camera, but ah, it's got to wait for the next version, uh, or, you know, we're gonna… 3 times in the scene

Ben Thompson from Stratechery on AI ads, the end of SaaS, and the future of media Feb 12, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 24:31 Ben Thompson So I think I wrote about like WeChat and what it meant for the iPhone's relative competitive position in China, how it's different than sort of other countries.
  • ▶ 1:23:59 Ben Thompson Like the iPhone Air that just, the alarm went off to make sure I turned the snooze off.

Casey Handmer of Terraform Industries on solar maximalism, hard tech, and reclaiming the Salton Sea Oct 28, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:25 Casey Handmer Do you think they could not have succeeded in building a really nice iPhone, even here in Silicon Valley, if they spent a hundred billion dollars in factories?

Dan Sundheim of D1 Capital on the art of public market investing Oct 22, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:04 John Collison Your team have, like, a special setting on their iPhones where it doesn't just, like, chirp, but exactly, yeah, like, it just attracts an alarm.

Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley Oct 1, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 45:28 Marc Andreessen And people, people actually forget, the original iPhone from 2007 did not have mobile broadband.
  • ▶ 1:10:49 Marc Andreessen And this is the thing where you can't, um, you know, you can't build a family off the price of the iPhone. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:34:48 Marc Andreessen Um, and then they got burned so hard on it, um, that, uh, by the time the iPhone appeared like it was too late, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:50:13 Marc Andreessen Yeah, and, and, and literally they'll say, like, wow, like, you know, I got to work on the iPhone.

A Cheeky Pint with Cognition CEO Scott Wu Aug 27, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:03 Patrick Collison So we still, we talked to Siri, which is the same, I mean, button placement, uh, and the same brand on the iPhone as pre-transformer models.
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