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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where iPhone comes up
TaskRabbit: Leah Solivan
- ▶ 13:21 Leah Solivan And the iPhone had just come out, and so I grabbed my iPhone, and I was like, we should be able to connect with whoever, who's ever at the store right now. 2 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! BlocPower: Donnel Baird
- ▶ 36:19 Donnel Baird Same thing with the Apple iPhone, right?
- ▶ 40:04 Donnel Baird You know, 20 years ago, I didn't think that everyone would have an iPhone or an Android, but billions of people across the world now do.
The Tonight Show & Electric Hot Dog: Jimmy Fallon
- ▶ 53:01 Jimmy Fallon Best Buy got a tripod that held iPhones, and then just started doing stuff, and putting, I asked NBC if I could put things on YouTube with, like, a website of a charity, and I just filmed more and more, like, hours of stuff, and just send…
PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)
- ▶ 31:38 Max Levchin And this is long, long, long pre iPhone, but this is right around the time of the heyday of the Palm pilot.
Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
- ▶ 44:12 Guy Raz It's still, like, a couple years before the iPhone's gonna come out, and so what, what were you initially thinking?
- ▶ 53:20 Guy Raz When you, I mean, this is still, again, I mean, I think the iPhone comes out in 2007, and smartphones kind of are beginning to emerge, but immediately before you launch, because you launch it in 2009, the summer of 2009,
Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
- ▶ 17:09 Shan-Lyn Ma So we, I first came into contact with Nobu when we were starting to think about building Gilt's first iPhone app. 3 times in the scene
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
- ▶ 20:16 Bob Williams It's so funny, because I remember we had these Mac classics, so they had like the screen that was about the size of your iPhone today.
Discord: Jason Citron
- ▶ 14:03 Jason Citron Started packing on an iPhone title, um, before there were even any tools to do it, and we ended up launching a game the day the App Store opened, about five months later.
- ▶ 14:36 Guy Raz It's like a puzzle game, right, for, for iPhones. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:53 Guy Raz Let's just sell the technology that we created for this game to other game makers who are making games for iPhones. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:05 Guy Raz Just very crudely, like you were playing video games with your friends, you could all just get your iPhones out and do a conference call and just put on speaker and you could, you could communicate that way, right?
Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler
- ▶ 8:05 Guy Raz Two, I remember going to Afghanistan as a reporter, and there were a few people who had those Garmin, like, handheld devices that could kind of geolocate you, but they were very crude compared to what you see today on just our iPhones, and…
- ▶ 18:15 Will Marshall Uh, you know, it's only a few years after the iPhone had come out, and, and, but, but before they were just these clunky phones, and now they suddenly had all these other things that were most of what a spacecraft needed.
Coinbase: Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 1:18:38 Brian Armstrong You know, like the classic examples, like Steve jobs with the iPhone or something.
Back to the Roots: Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez
- ▶ 47:46 Nikhil Arora We were in a meeting with Randy talking about fresh mushrooms, and at the end of the meeting, we pull out this mushroom kit, you know, with all the confidence in the world, as if it was the next iPhone, right?
Moderna and Flagship Pioneering: Noubar Afeyan
- ▶ 55:26 Noubar Afeyan Let me just say that I have not lost a family member during the time of, of iPhones.
Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney
Live From The HIBT Summit: Adam Grant
- ▶ 38:57 Guy Raz Like, I can't remember his name, but one of the engineers at Apple who tried to put internet connectivity in the iPod, and that was the kind of early beginnings of what would become the iPhone.
- ▶ 44:31 Guy Raz And she writes about how government has actually funded all of the things that, that private enterprise takes credit for, like the iPhone and the technology.
Live From The HIBT Summit: Gary Vaynerchuk
- ▶ 18:08 Gary Vaynerchuk Whether it's writing, whether it's recording an audio clip on your iPhone, or whether you're comfortable in video, which is smaller, but obviously high impact.
Robert Reffkin: Compass
- ▶ 1:02:22 Robert Reffkin Yeah, when I moved from my Blackberry to my iPhone, yes, I got, like, 300 dollars off the first phone, but that's not why I moved.
Live From HIBT Summit: Payal Kadakia, Tristan Walker, and Perry Chen on Innovation
Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut
Expedia & Zillow: Rich Barton
- ▶ 55:35 Rich Barton Three D shopping and wants to be able to go visit the house as many times as they want to use their Zillow iPhone app to let themselves in.
Meet The HIBT Fellows: Pierre Paul & Toby Egbuna
How I Built Resilience: Bayard Winthrop of American Giant
Hinge: Justin McLeod
Boxed: Chieh Huang
- ▶ 19:13 Chieh Huang But around that time, I remember purchasing the original iPhone, the iPhone two, it was two G had the metal back plate and, uh, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:00 Chieh Huang iPhone back then, you know, and so it was like telling them that they should buy a 900 dollar phone just to be able to play a game you guys were trying to make.
- ▶ 24:38 Guy Raz Release it on like the, the app store on, on the iPhone.
How I Built Resilience: Michael Horvath and Mark Gainey of Strava
Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam
- ▶ 19:46 Sam Yam I mean, thinking back on it, a lot of this was, was quite boring, but, uh, uh, this was during the area when the iPhone was getting really popular and a lot of, uh, yeah, developers were creating their own games and whatnot. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:37 Sam Yam Apps and, and, and iPhone apps.
Riot Games: Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill
Dropbox: Drew Houston
- ▶ 27:05 Guy Raz Share files seamlessly across different, their computer, their laptop, and this is when iPhones just started to come out, and smartphone revolution is about to begin.
- ▶ 32:20 Drew Houston And so the other thing is this only became a mainstream need after the iPhone because most people had one computer at home, but then suddenly with a smartphone, everybody's got two. 2 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Aishetu Dozie of Bossy Cosmetics
- ▶ 11:58 Aishetu Dozie You can even shoot the photographer yourself if you want to with an iPhone, and just go out there and give it a try.
How I Built Resilience (Special Edition): Guy Raz
How I Built Resilience: Samantha Bee of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
- ▶ 4:35 Samantha Bee And so we just started shooting stuff, and it really turned out to be a proof of concept to the network that we could shoot in our backyard, and that it would look good, and that it could be broadcast quality, even though it's shot on an…
Tatcha: Vicky Tsai
Ring: Jamie Siminoff
Jo Loves: Jo Malone CBE
Stripe: Patrick and John Collison (2018)
- ▶ 29:26 Patrick Collison Uh, if it were possible, there would be many more great iPhone competitors.
Video Artist: Casey Neistat
- ▶ 39:28 Casey Neistat And the visuals in the video are, uh, my brother Van and I running around Manhattan, and this is when they had that ubiquitous ad campaign of the silhouettes dancing with an iPhone.
- ▶ 56:35 Casey Neistat Look, I wasn't exactly the safest cyclist, and ticket me for running a red light, which I certainly did, and was guilty of, and ticket me for myriad, uh, offenses, but to give a ticket for riding not in the bike lane just felt so, um, uh,…
Live From The HIBT Summit: Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 6:52 Stewart Butterfield It was, uh, I think the fact that we had been successful before was a compelling plan, but it was also right at this interesting juncture where, um, it was, um, around the year that Android came out, it was around the year that iPhones…
Chicken Salad Chick: Stacy Brown (2018)
- ▶ 52:39 Ofer Webman It's the size of a big iPhone.
Live From The HIBT Summit: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger Of Instagram
- ▶ 16:12 Mike Krieger I was excited about iPhone development.
Live Episode! OtterBox: Curt Richardson
- ▶ 30:34 Guy Raz Sounds like by 2005, 2006, pre iPhone, you've got a pretty good business going.
- ▶ 31:45 Guy Raz The iPhone.
- ▶ 34:16 Guy Raz All right, so you've got the name, you've got this, you know, you're making these cool products, um, you know, but, but I, I mean, this is still pre-iPhone, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:47 Curt Richardson I knew we were growing and we were growing at a significant pace at the time, but we didn't, I mean, the iPhone three was, you know, we were on the launch pad.
- ▶ 37:32 Guy Raz Now, I'm, I'm curious because when the iPhone came out, apparently Steve Jobs did not like cases. 7 times in the scene
Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker
Shopify: Tobias Lütke
Dyson: James Dyson (2018)
- ▶ 40:22 Guy Raz So Mike figured he would design an iPhone case where you just slide a switch at the top to cover up the camera lens. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:39 Guy Raz But by the end of 2014, with the help of 20,000 dollars that he raised on Kickstarter, Mike found a factory in China to make his first run of iPhone five and five S cases with lens caps, and then
- ▶ 41:39 Guy Raz But by the end of 2014, with the help of 20,000 dollars that he raised on Kickstarter, Mike found a factory in China to make his first run of iPhone five and five S cases with lens caps, and then
Yelp: Jeremy Stoppelman
Framebridge: Susan Tynan (2017)
- ▶ 11:19 Susan Tynan It was called Taxi Magic that was actually had an iPhone app to hail taxis pre Uber.
- ▶ 52:14 Susan Tynan And, um, and the mom wrote us a note saying, you know, these kids get iPhones.
- ▶ 54:24 Len Testa This is 10 years before the iPhone. 2 times in the scene
Live Episode! Peloton: John Foley
- ▶ 21:36 John Foley And I kept coming back in my mind to, um, the clock radio in your Holiday Inn that has the iPhone four dongle.
Compaq Computers: Rod Canion (2019)
- ▶ 34:20 Rod Canion Pro and iPhone.
Squarespace: Anthony Casalena
- ▶ 35:42 Anthony Casalena There were, the, the iPhone had come out, and, and so people were more used to saying, okay, the web experience on my phone, while different, needs to be very high fidelity, and this thing, this thing that we had, Squarespace five, you…
TOMS: Blake Mycoskie (2019)
- ▶ 4:58 Blake Mycoskie Um, for an iPhone or a movie or whatever, you know, painted on the side of a building, yet there was a lot of that in Los Angeles, and I noticed that there, not only was a lot of it, but there was almost exclusively advertising movies and…
ActOne Group: Janice Bryant Howroyd
- ▶ 45:48 Ofer Webman Try to imagine this, it's the size of a big iPhone.
Live Episode! Glossier: Emily Weiss
- ▶ 25:51 Emily Weiss 50% of people who go into a Sephora take out their iPhones.
Drybar: Alli Webb (2017)
- ▶ 18:02 Alli Webb And my, Michael, my brother, had the idea to put charging stations for your iPhones at every, I mean, it was like, it was such, we got so lucky the fact that my brother and my husband and Josh and me, it was like, we were this perfect…
- ▶ 19:03 Alli Webb I remember sitting at lunch with my brother on our Blackberries, because it was four iPhones, and, and we used to get appointment notifications, and all of a sudden, we're sitting at lunch, and our phones start going crazy, and all these…
Lululemon Athletica: Chip Wilson
- ▶ 48:22 Guy Raz So Mike figured he would design an iPhone case where you just slide a switch at the top to cover up the camera lens. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:50 Guy Raz Mike found a factory in China to make his first run of iPhone five and five S cases with lens caps.
- ▶ 49:50 Guy Raz Mike found a factory in China to make his first run of iPhone five and five S cases with lens caps.
Stripe: Patrick and John Collison
- ▶ 29:32 Patrick and John Collison Uh, if it were possible, there would be many more great iPhone competitors.
FUBU: Daymond John
Stitch Fix: Katrina Lake
- ▶ 4:40 Katrina Lake Future gonna be like, and this was in 2006, and it was literally before the iPhone, and like, I had this idea where I was like, why, you know, in a store, why do you have to have every single size and skew on the floor?
- ▶ 13:42 Katrina Lake Um, retail that was happening, which when you're buying toilet paper or iPhone chargers or diapers is fine.
Warby Parker: Dave Gilboa & Neil Blumenthal (2016)
- ▶ 2:17 Dave Gilboa Um, the new iPhone three G had come out.
- ▶ 2:32 Guy Raz I've got this, this amazing iPhone, this magical portal to all of human knowledge, and it's, it cost me 200 bucks, and yet these eyeglasses made out of plastic are, like, super expensive.
Framebridge: Susan Tynan
- ▶ 11:03 Susan Tynan It was called Taxi Magic that was, actually had an iPhone app to hail taxis pre-Uber, and so I thought, well, that'll sort of scratch this itch.
- ▶ 51:51 Susan Tynan And, um, and the mom wrote us a note saying, you know, these kids get iPhones.
Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger (2017)
- ▶ 4:56 Mike Krieger A great coffee shop here in San Francisco, and I'd be working on iPhone apps just for fun.
Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Radio One: Cathy Hughes (2017)
- ▶ 33:11 Dr. Mike Butera You can actually hold your iPhone out and move your iPhone around in the air.
Live Episode! BuzzFeed: Jonah Peretti
- ▶ 31:45 Jonah Peretti The main thing was that we were doing, you know, when BuzzFeed started, the iPhone hadn't come out yet.
- ▶ 46:52 Guy Raz By the way, in 2015, a BuzzFeed reporter in New York tracked down his lost iPhone to a rural village in China. 2 times in the scene
TOMS: Blake Mycoskie
- ▶ 4:29 Blake Mycoskie Um, for an iPhone or a movie or whatever, you know, painted on the side of a building, yet there was a lot of that in Los Angeles, and I noticed that there, not only was a lot of it, but there was almost exclusively advertising movies and…
Compaq Computers: Rod Canion
- ▶ 33:57 Rod Canion Pro and iPhone.
Drybar: Alli Webb
- ▶ 16:57 Alli Webb It is, it's like sleepless in Seattle, like how to be single, like we play like breakfast activities, like all of it, and my, Michael, my brother had the idea to put charging stations for your iPhones at every, I mean, it was like, it was…
- ▶ 18:03 Alli Webb I remember sitting at lunch with my brother on our Blackberries, because it was four iPhones, and, and we used to get appointment notifications, and all of a sudden, we're sitting at lunch, and our phones start going crazy, and all these…
- ▶ 29:57 Dr. Mike Butera You can actually hold your iPhone out and move your iPhone around in the air, and that will act like a bow.
Warby Parker: Dave Gilboa & Neil Blumenthal
- ▶ 1:49 Dave Gilboa Um, the new iPhone three G had come out. 2 times in the scene
Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger
- ▶ 4:25 Mike Krieger Great coffee shop here in San Francisco, and I'd be working on iPhone apps just for fun.
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