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Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed May 7, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:57 Jonah Peretti One of the apps that is, uh, really fun is if you search in the app, uh, the Apple app store, uh, is Conjure Camera.

Square: Jim McKelvey. He Lost a $2,000 Sale, Then Built a $10 Billion Company Feb 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:59 Jim McKelvey Apple could have stopped us, and if we had offended them or made them felt threatened in any way, they, they would have shut us down.

Advice Line with Anthony Casalena of Squarespace Nov 20, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 34:28 Mahak Mohan So, uh, we're about to launch, and that actually leads into my question around the App Store, um, which is our biggest milestone is we're about to come out of private beta in the next, uh, couple of months. 4 times in the scene

Advice Line with Justin McLeod of Hinge Jul 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:32 Guy Raz On the site and use your remaining last capital on a launch party before even getting your app into the app store and all the messiness and craziness.

Calm: Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith May 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:01:10 Guy Raz And again, like, are you guys using any money to advertise, to do social media ads, or is it just you're on the app store, and you've got your mailing list, and it's just growing organically, or are you spending money on customer…

Snap: Evan Spiegel Apr 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:13 Evan Spiegel We put it on the app store so anyone could use it, but obviously nobody knew about it except our friends.

Boll & Branch: Scott and Missy Tannen Nov 11, 2024 · 2 mentions

Advice Line with Leah Solivan of Taskrabbit Sep 12, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 4:41 Kate Pitner And I am the founder and creator of the Poppy Notes app on the Apple App Store. 6 times in the scene

Insomnia Cookies: Seth Berkowitz Aug 26, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:01 Guy Raz At the same time, something kind of world-changing happened at this moment, which was the iPhone was introduced in 2007, and I think the App Store starts in 2009, or maybe, you know, and in earnest, 2010 really kind of blows up.

AI that can be your second brain with Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri of Humane Mar 14, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 41:18 Guy Raz My assumption, I'm just going back to Apple, for example, as an example, but a huge source of Apple's revenue is the App Store, right? 2 times in the scene

Poshmark: Manish Chandra Feb 26, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 43:35 Manish Chandra So we also leveraged the fact that mobile was very novel, and we finally launched the app in the App Store in December of 2011. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 51:24 Guy Raz And then with each passing year, more people were discovering and downloading apps right from the App Store.

Sonos: John MacFarlane Feb 19, 2024 · 1 mention

reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020) Dec 18, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:12 Luis von Ahn So we developed it, we launched it, and we were at exactly the right time because there were other apps to learn a language in the app store, but they were pretty crappy, uh, and also cost money, and so very quickly this became the most…

Love’s next chapter with Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble Oct 26, 2023 · 1 mention

Grindr: Joel Simkhai Jul 17, 2023 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 2:58 Guy Raz And in the iPhone and the App Store, Joel saw an opportunity.
  • ▶ 12:00 Joel Simkhai One was the App Store, and so now, uh, developers could develop third-party apps. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:01 Joel Simkhai I don't, I don't quite know when the App Store and, you know, the distribution started, but it was starting already, uh, and people were starting to, to get these new iPhones, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:06 Guy Raz He's turned down a bargain basement offer to sell it, and he's now anxiously watching the App Store to see how it's doing. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:25 Joel Simkhai Yeah, our app store ratings were, you know, one star.

Twilio: Jeff Lawson Apr 3, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:03 Jeff Lawson And suddenly you saw this explosion where like most apps that you downloaded from the app store, you know, would text you to verify your phone number or would, you know, text you when your order ships or when you have a friend say…

HIBT Lab! Too Good To Go: Lucie Basch Mar 9, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:15 Lucie Basch I think the first two years, like our average on the App Store was two stores.

HIBT Lab! Gro Intelligence: Sara Menker Dec 8, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:56 Sara Menker So think of it as no different from the app store on your iPhone, where you go in and the app store is built on our platform that has all these models that I mentioned. 2 times in the scene

HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman Sep 29, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:58 Sam Altman You know, when the app store on the iPhone launched, it would be a big deal for companies to talk about being mobile companies or their mobile strategy at that point.

TaskRabbit: Leah Solivan Jul 11, 2022 · 1 mention

Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath May 2, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 57:54 Guy Raz And so when did you first launch the app on the app store? 2 times in the scene

Discord: Jason Citron Mar 7, 2022 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 13:08 Jason Citron And then Steve Jobs announced the App Store. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:29 Jason Citron Developers would start to, like, put the logo on their app icons in the corner, so, like, when you were browsing the app store, you'd be able to see, like, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:00 Guy Raz I think when you sold to Grie, um, you were like on 30, I read like 30% of the apps in the app store were using OpenFaint.
  • ▶ 34:55 Jason Citron You know, I mentioned this earlier with, you know, consoles and the app store.
  • ▶ 58:40 Jason Citron We had to be able to get the app name on the app store, and it had to be a word that you could read it and know how to say it, and if you hear it, you know how to spell it.

Live From HIBT Summit: Payal Kadakia, Tristan Walker, and Perry Chen on Innovation Jul 22, 2021 · 1 mention

Live Episode! Clubhouse: Paul Davison and Rohan Seth May 6, 2021 · 1 mention

Robinhood: Vlad Tenev Apr 12, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:11:50 Vlad Tenev We were trying to keep our systems up amidst being number one on the App Store, which was always the number one concern to make the systems up for all trading.

Hinge: Justin McLeod Mar 22, 2021 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 39:18 Justin McLeod Yeah, it was starting, you know, the app store was starting to become more popular. 4 times in the scene

Boxed: Chieh Huang Feb 22, 2021 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 24:38 Guy Raz Release it on like the, the app store on, on the iPhone. 4 times in the scene

Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam Jan 11, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:51 Sam Yam Like, there was a whole flood of developers, um, who, it was almost like a, a gold rush in a lot of ways, uh, because you had the iPhone and, and this new app store, and anyone could start making games and get it distributed to millions of…

reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn May 25, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:21 Luis von Ahn So we developed it, we launched it, and we were at exactly the right time because there were other apps to learn a language in the app store, but they were pretty crappy, uh, and also cost money.

Yelp: Jeremy Stoppelman Jun 24, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 43:48 Jeremy Stoppelman So we actually had a, an app ready to go day one, uh, when the app store opened. 2 times in the scene

Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield Jul 30, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:03 Guy Raz It goes out into the app store or whatever, and out into the world?

Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger (2017) Nov 13, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:55 Kevin Systrom It was only eight weeks from the time we had basically sketched it out to when we put it into the Apple store.
  • ▶ 12:24 Mike Krieger Invites that you can have before you launch your app to the Apple store where you can invite people to try it out.

Spanx: Sara Blakely (2017) Jul 3, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:49 Guy Raz Chandra spent several months trying to get friendish coded and to work out some of the kinks, and when she finally put a beta version up on the App Store on iTunes last spring, most of the feedback she got was kind of disappointing. 2 times in the scene

Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger Sep 19, 2016 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:24 Kevin Systrom It was only eight weeks from the time we had basically sketched it out to when we put it into the Apple store.
  • ▶ 11:49 Mike Krieger So one of the things we did was we have, uh, you have a hundred sort of invites that you can have before you launch your app to the app, Apple store, where you can invite people to try it out.
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