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Building One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies | Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabs
- ▶ 1:00:55 David Senra How much money would you have to give Steve Jobs and say, I'll give you two trillion, Steve, but you can't work on Apple.
How to Dominate for Decades | Doug Leone, Sequoia Capital
- ▶ 3:02 David Senra They wind up doing Beats music and headphones, and they sell it to Apple.
- ▶ 25:00 Doug Leone Apple. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:35 Doug Leone Think of the re-founding of Apple.
Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
- ▶ 8:55 David Senra He says, he's like, there's, there's a big comparison to be made between the way that Steve Jobs thought and the way he ran his company to the way that he thinks that you do. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:11 David Senra It's like the first six-year history of Apple written by Michael Mortz. 2 times in the scene
Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber
- ▶ 9:38 Travis Kalanick At the time, like Apple. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:38 Travis Kalanick Apple, Tesla, these guys said, screw it.
Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
- ▶ 36:24 David Senra I think it's called, like, Johnny Ive, the genius behind Apple's greatest products or something like that. 2 times in the scene
DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
- ▶ 4:32 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) And by the way, I got paid in Apple gear.
- ▶ 39:50 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Then finally, Apple pissed me off enough that I thought I cannot in good conscience continue to spend money on their products if I have such deep disagreements with how they run the company. 6 times in the scene
Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
- ▶ 12:03 Jonathan Ross Like Apple, complete silos.
The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
- ▶ 53:24 Scott Wu People were saying, so like, you know, there's, there's like, like YouTube's trying to go and do this and Apple has Apple music.
- ▶ 53:24 Scott Wu People were saying, so like, you know, there's, there's like, like YouTube's trying to go and do this and Apple has Apple music.
- ▶ 54:49 David Senra I love that you use the example of the war between Spotify and the rest of the Apple Music, for example.
- ▶ 54:57 David Senra He actually called me yesterday about this, because anything, anytime anything happens with AI music, Spotify calls me, but we talked about this because he's like, you don't understand, like, he had like, 40 years of experience in the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:51 David Senra I'll give you two trillion dollars, but you can't work on Apple. 2 times in the scene
The Marketing Genius of Steve Stoute
- ▶ 8:07 Steve Stoute Apple at that time, the stock was at nine or 10, you know, very, you know, it was like there. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:49 David Senra So like, Apple wouldn't either, either, right? 2 times in the scene
Building Pixar, Working With Steve Jobs, and Cultivating Creativity | Ed Catmull
- ▶ 24:46 Ed Catmull Because he would typically shoot for the moon on a lot of things, uh, you know, at Apple and at, at, and at Next, and some, and often overshoot, but he recognized, because he's very smart,
- ▶ 1:21:30 David Senra He was still at Apple at this time. 2 times in the scene
The Company Apple Couldn't Kill | Spotify Co-CEO Gustav Söderström
- ▶ 2:42 Gustav Söderström Like Amazon is, is, uh, organized in a certain way, trillion dollar company, Apple in another way, also trillion. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:03 David Senra So like, which we've mentioned, you mentioned Apple, let's talk about Steve Jobs.
- ▶ 18:33 Gustav Söderström And when we looked at their usage, I think Apple podcast was still like 98 and a half percent.
- ▶ 23:46 Gustav Söderström The time you spend on, on, you know, Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, Amazon, TikTok, all of them.
- ▶ 51:28 David Senra He's just like, Apple held me back. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:59 David Senra If Apple Music didn't work out, they would have been fine, and I think he said when he started 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:50 Gustav Söderström And if I'm going to make some far fetched analogies, maybe this is one of the challenges that Apple had with machine learning and AI. 2 times in the scene
Bootstrapping a Business to $5 Billion in Free Cash Flow | AppLovin’s Adam Foroughi
- ▶ 1:09:16 David Senra He said that they had 400 employees and at the time Apple had like 3000.
Roblox’s David Baszucki Built the Biggest Playground on Earth
- ▶ 13:11 David Baszucki I think I actually knew it in my twenties, because I think, and I actually think I knew it even very early on, like when I was programming Apple II stuff. 2 times in the scene
Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 19:03 Evan Spiegel Going back to, to the early days of the smartphone, if you remember, you know, Apple was really talking about, like, hey, when you're gonna watch video on your, your iPhone, you're gonna turn the video, the, the phone sideways, right, and…
- ▶ 1:20:30 David Senra He's just like, when Apple bought us, Spotify only had three million paid subscribers.
- ▶ 1:25:10 David Senra I don't think they separated out, you know, that, I don't think spun out different, like, entities inside of Apple, but he wanted, he's like, you can't even be in the same building.
Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
- ▶ 19:12 David Senra My favorite Apple lore is that the first sale an Apple 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:14 Marc Andreessen And what you have instead of boutiques like the Gucci store or the Apple store, and then you've got this super scale e-commerce companies like, like Walmart and Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:22 Marc Andreessen It was also around the time Apple was directly entering the cell phone market, which was another great example of this.
- ▶ 1:32:55 Marc Andreessen It's just like, or Apple times 10.
Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
- ▶ 37:31 Brian Armstrong Probably wouldn't have been an Apple without Woz in the early days.
- ▶ 1:15:00 Brian Armstrong They said no, and then he left to found Apple, so.
Jason Fried: Your Only Competition Is Your Costs
- ▶ 4:23 David Senra This is something I talk about over and over again with my other podcast founders, where it's just like, it is kind of weird how every single one of history's greatest entrepreneurs, they were obsessed about watching their costs from, from…
- ▶ 1:06:27 Jason Fried I, I blame Apple.
Jimmy Iovine: Building Interscope Records & Beats by Dre
- ▶ 3:37 Jimmy Iovine To have Apple Music get on the board. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:41 Jimmy Iovine Well, he, he always felt that what was unique about Apple, which was, is that a software company can make hardware.
- ▶ 32:30 Jimmy Iovine So when I used to run the companies, like when I ran Interscope, when I ran Beats, and when I ran what became Apple Music, I just woke up on the day and did everything by my instinct.
- ▶ 32:43 Jimmy Iovine Whatever that was in the morning, you know, it's a little more difficult to do that at Apple than it was when they're on my own companies, because they have a giant infrastructure and a, and they have 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:40 Jimmy Iovine We wouldn't know when we sold to Apple, we were number one in 50 countries, man.
- ▶ 50:47 Jimmy Iovine Yeah, Spotify had three million subscribers at the time, at the time we sold to Apple. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:57 Jimmy Iovine Because if you think like that, it's an uncomfortable life, you know, so that's kind of why at 65, I'm 72 now, at 65 I was at Apple, and I said, I can't, this is not for me anymore, you know, first of all, 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:07 Jimmy Iovine The head of Apple Music anymore, or the head of Interscope anymore, or blah, blah, blah, the head of Beats.
- ▶ 1:31:23 unnamed speaker Your example is very different than most of the founders that I talked to our profile, because like Steve would be working on Apple, no matter what, he just absolutely loved it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:53:51 Jimmy Iovine PlayStation, and then the CD, and all this stuff, and how did Apple become Apple and not them? 2 times in the scene
Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopify
- ▶ 1:46:12 David Senra And I go, go look at like what, where did like Apple start?
John Mackey: The Dropout Who Changed How America Eats
- ▶ 11:25 John Mackey They're looking for exponential growth, and when they hit, when you get an Apple, or you get a Nvidia, or an Intuitive Surgical, or you get one of these
- ▶ 44:23 John Mackey Yes, and he, he transformed it with a much better, you know, Apple II in particular was a huge step.
- ▶ 56:37 John Mackey Um, Apple's a great example of that, right? 2 times in the scene
CAA Co-founder Michael Ovitz: Failure Is Not an Option
- ▶ 1:22:26 David Senra Well, Steve Jobs built Apple, right?
- ▶ 1:29:59 Michael Ovitz Sent it back, sent the check back void, because we, I said, we did it on a Apple II, Len Fink did the commercial on a Apple IIe computer, the first computer Steve Jobs came out with, and we did it in black and white,
- ▶ 1:48:17 David Senra He went down to the courthouse, brought a computer, right, his Apple II computer, and he just had them pull, give me a list of all the people that were married,
- ▶ 2:01:55 Michael Ovitz He was an Apple fellow when it was, no one knew what the hell that was.
How Brad Jacobs Built 8 Billion-Dollar Companies
- ▶ 35:38 David Senra That's not why he's doing it.
Michael Dell, Dell Technologies | David Senra
- ▶ 5:18 David Senra You have a great story in the book where I think you save up for the Apple II, it was a computer, and it was, you know, relatively expensive, especially I think you were like 12 or something at the time, and then you bring it home and your…
- ▶ 23:16 Michael Dell Yeah, so, you know, in, in the early days of, of the computer industry, you know, as I knew it, the microprocessor-based computer industry, you know, Apple was a leading company, and Steve was obviously the sort of legendary figure. 3 times in the scene
Daniel Ek, Spotify | David Senra
- ▶ 47:33 David Senra And they, they talked, they were comparing and contrasting the way, like, Google would make products versus how Apple did when Steve Jobs was in charge. 5 times in the scene