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Roku: Anthony Wood
- ▶ 42:14 Anthony Wood And then we approached, I approached Apple about the same kind of thing on Apple TV, you know.
- ▶ 46:39 Guy Raz There was the Apple TV out at that time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:52 Anthony Wood That also comes into play in that most media executives, when they start getting into streaming, they underestimate Roku because they all have Samsung TVs or an Apple TVs, and so
HIBT Lab! Tala: Shivani Siroya
HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz
HIBT Lab! MKBHD: Marques Brownlee
HIBT Lab! Cruise: Kyle Vogt
Wirecutter: Brian Lam
HIBT Lab! Against All Grain: Danielle Walker
ButcherBox: Mike Salguero
HIBT Lab! SOURCE Global: Cody Friesen
Roblox: David Baszucki
- ▶ 4:41 David Baszucki I built asteroid type games, and there was a way to, um, in a primitive way, go to Radio Shack and buy these knob potentiometers and wire them up to the Apple II and build a primitive game controller, and I, I can remember having my… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:36 David Baszucki And we were right in the hardcore educational computing transition from Apple II to Macintosh. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:34 David Baszucki It was kind of this genesis time, both for educational software and Apple as well.
- ▶ 16:08 David Baszucki I can remember one National Association of Science Teacher shows where we had a booth, there was an Apple booth, and it was really hard work.
HIBT Lab! IDEO: David Kelley
- ▶ 0:11 Guy Raz He helped Steve Jobs design the first Apple computer mouse, and eventually David would merge his design firm with two others to create IDEO.
- ▶ 5:16 David Kelley That's really what it was all about, so we were lucky, you know, we got early, uh, involved in Apple and did the first mouse for them and many other products.
- ▶ 5:31 Guy Raz I think was when you first started to work with Steve Jobs, and you would go on to design the first mouse for Apple, which Apple was not a player in 1980. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:31 Guy Raz I think was when you first started to work with Steve Jobs, and you would go on to design the first mouse for Apple, which Apple was not a player in 1980. 4 times in the scene
TaskRabbit: Leah Solivan
HIBT Lab! BlocPower: Donnel Baird
- ▶ 36:19 Donnel Baird Same thing with the Apple iPhone, right?
HIBT Lab! The Sorry Girls: Kelsey MacDermaid and Becky Wright
PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)
Pitchfork: Ryan Schreiber
Houzz: Adi Tatarko
HIBT Lab! Armbrust American: Lloyd Armbrust
Raising Cane's: Todd Graves
HIBT Lab! WeWork: Miguel McKelvey
- ▶ 1:47 Guy Raz The story of WeWork's rise and fall has inspired a popular podcast, a Hulu documentary, and now an Apple TV series.
- ▶ 20:10 Guy Raz Um, there's been a podcast, there's been documentaries, um, there's now an Apple TV series.
- ▶ 28:11 Guy Raz You can follow How I Built This on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or wherever you're listening right now. 2 times in the scene
Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
- ▶ 17:48 Shan-Lyn Ma It made Apple then come and ask us, could we be one of the first apps to launch on the iPad device when the iPad launched? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:46 Guy Raz If you want to listen one week early and ad-free, subscribe to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or on the Wondery app.
HIBT Lab! Colin and Samir: Colin Rosenblum and Samir Chaudry
Florentine Films: Ken Burns
- ▶ 2:23 Guy Raz In fact, engineers at Apple were so inspired by his trademark production
- ▶ 1:02:46 Guy Raz You have made films that have been very successful commercially, and you've made a good living off of it, but if you did a deal with Netflix or Apple TV, or, I mean, you could do a two hundred million dollar deal.
- ▶ 1:16:48 Guy Raz You can follow H-I-B-T on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you're listening right now. 2 times in the scene
Bonobos: Andy Dunn (2019)
- ▶ 0:07 Guy Raz And as you probably know, you can follow How I Built This on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you're listening right now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:26 Guy Raz If you want to listen one week early and ad-free, subscribe to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or on the Wondery app.
Discord: Jason Citron
- ▶ 29:57 Jason Citron And we were also competing with Apple, and now Google at this point.
Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler
- ▶ 20:47 Will Marshall But now, the billions and billions of dollars that would be going on in the consumer electronics industry, like Apple and Samsung and Google and all these companies, was far outpacing what NASA could spend on the development of electronics.
Back to the Roots: Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez
- ▶ 1:00:22 Nikhil Arora We actually, funny story guy, we ended up reading the Steve Jobs biography and were super inspired by their design principles and cold emailed Johnny Ive from Apple on a Sunday afternoon, and he actually got back to us in like five minutes.
Audible: Don Katz
Moderna and Flagship Pioneering: Noubar Afeyan
- ▶ 46:44 Noubar Afeyan And a platform is a relatively rare thing in biotechnology, unlike in the tech sector, where we've seen phenomenal examples of platforms, whether it's the iOS, you know, Apple's platform or Amazon's.
Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney
- ▶ 11:23 Cory Cotton We both worked at the Apple store seasonally off and on in high school and college.
- ▶ 11:28 Cory Cotton And so I'd say there are two kind of top career paths for both of us where we're either going to go into some sort of sports ministry because we both love basketball so much, or we were going to work, try to corporately at Apple.
- ▶ 27:35 Cory Cotton I had taken one class in high school, and so I bust open iMovie on my Apple laptop, and put the footage in, throw, obviously, one of my favorite songs at the time, Space Jam, and put that behind it,
Lynda.com: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin
- ▶ 2:12 Guy Raz She bought the first model of the Apple Mac and loved it.
- ▶ 44:08 Bruce Heavin A lot of people who taught web design and Photoshop were using our courses, and they were bringing it into their schools and into their companies, so we'd be installed in all of Apple, all of Adobe, all of Microsoft, all of Google, and the…
Live From The HIBT Summit: Adam Grant
Robert Reffkin: Compass
- ▶ 2:18 Guy Raz But as he considered ideas for a business that wasn't dominated by Google or Amazon or Apple or Facebook,
- ▶ 34:30 Robert Reffkin And we just started talking about it, and the idea was, what's, what's an industry that's really, really big, that the big companies, Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, aren't competing within, and it really came down to real…
- ▶ 1:02:58 Robert Reffkin But what they didn't do is what Apple did.
Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut
- ▶ 34:31 Ben Chestnut Like Apple was like the most famous version, the 99 cent song.
- ▶ 50:26 Ben Chestnut It's where, uh, Apple holds used to hold their WWDC events.
- ▶ 1:20:47 Guy Raz It turned out to be a fourteen-year-old girl from Norway waiting in line outside the Apple store to buy an iPhone six.
Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner (2018)
- ▶ 31:07 Sandy Lerner Yeah, including Apple and Intel. 2 times in the scene
Hinge: Justin McLeod
- ▶ 43:43 Justin McLeod I was just, like, I was trying to get in contact with people at Apple, I mean, who cares, like, we're, like, nobody, but I'm, like, trying to reach out to the head of the app store and
Boxed: Chieh Huang
How I Built Resilience: M. Night Shyamalan
- ▶ 0:31 Guy Raz And more recently, he's entered the world of television with his Apple TV Plus series, Servant, now in its second season.
- ▶ 26:45 Guy Raz The pandemic has completely upended Hollywood over the past year, but despite all the uncertainty, Knight has taken this year in stride, working on a new film called Old and a new season of his Apple Plus TV show Servant, both filmed…
- ▶ 31:14 M. Night Shyamalan And then the other project was servant for Apple, which is we had to finish shooting the second season, which is out now.
Dropbox: Drew Houston
- ▶ 35:49 Guy Raz And, and I guess also that year in, in 2009, um, I read that Apple was interested in Dropbox too. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:56 Drew Houston And, and I would say that from the moment we founded the company, we were kind of always living in the shadow of whatever Google's thing would be, or Apple's thing, or. 2 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience (Special Edition): Guy Raz
Zocdoc: Oliver Kharraz
- ▶ 27:00 Oliver Kharraz As an evangelist for Apple, he, he came out and just said he, he didn't get it, he would never use this in front of everyone, right?
How I Built Resilience: Sarah Harden and Lauren Neustadter of Hello Sunshine
Fitbit: James Park
- ▶ 3:17 Guy Raz But that same year, the Apple Watch was released, and Fitbit and its market share got hammered.
- ▶ 48:51 Guy Raz That year, 2015, Apple, the Apple Watch is released, and they stop selling Fitbit in their stores. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:51 Guy Raz That year, 2015, Apple, the Apple Watch is released, and they stop selling Fitbit in their stores. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:35 Guy Raz Competitive to, to the Apple. 3 times in the scene
Stripe: Patrick and John Collison (2018)
Video Artist: Casey Neistat
- ▶ 38:30 Casey Neistat It wouldn't hold a charge, so I called Apple computers. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:25 Casey Neistat You made something about Apple.
Lululemon Athletica: Chip Wilson (2018)
Eventbrite: Julia Hartz
M.M.LaFleur: Sarah LaFleur
Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram
Spindrift: Bill Creelman
Dell Computers: Michael Dell (2018)
- ▶ 7:01 Michael Dell And I hired a bunch of my high school pals, you know, to go out to all these county courthouses and type the names into small Apple II computers, and I sent, you know, a massive direct mail campaign to all those people that were applying…
- ▶ 9:22 Michael Dell You know, the original computer that I, you know, got my hands on at home was the same one everybody else had, which was the Apple II. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:14 Guy Raz You can subscribe at Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Chicken Salad Chick: Stacy Brown (2018)
Live Episode! OtterBox: Curt Richardson
Outdoor Voices: Tyler Haney
Crate & Barrel: Gordon Segal (2017)
Evite: Selina Tobaccowala
FUBU: Daymond John (2018)
LÄRABAR: Lara Merriken (2018)
Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber
The Knot: Carley Roney & David Liu (2018)
Headspace: Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson
Dippin' Dots: Curt Jones
The Life Is Good Company: Bert and John Jacobs
Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones (2019)
Stonyfield Yogurt: Gary Hirshberg (2017)
Shopify: Tobias Lütke
Dyson: James Dyson (2018)
- ▶ 41:29 Mike Sorrentino so I've got to wait for the phone to come onto the market, then I've got to go to the Apple store and measure it, and then send it to the engineer, and then it's a lot of back and forth.
- ▶ 43:15 Guy Raz You can subscribe at Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.