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Advice Line with Kip Tindell of The Container Store Sep 10, 2026 · 1 mention

Advice Line with Carlton Calvin of Razor Aug 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:53 Guy Raz I could imagine you getting, taking your iPhone and putting it on a tripod, and angling it, and a video of you sketching designs, and a video of you being kind of the face of this brand, and putting some money behind, not too much money,…

Sweetwater: Chuck Surack. How a Customer Service Strategy Built a Billion Dollar Online Pro Audio and Music Company. Jul 27, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:09 Guy Raz I mean, today, of course, you know, you should record into your iPhone, but in 1984, that was really different.

Advice Line with Curt Richardson of OtterBox Jul 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:41 Guy Raz And when the iPhone exploded in popularity, OtterBox was in place to become the dominant phone case brand in the U.S., growing the company from five to five hundred and seventy five million dollars in just five years.

Toast: Aman Narang. How a Long Wait for the Dinner Check Launched a $2 Billion Business. Jul 20, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:27 Guy Raz So, alright, so you're working there, and, um, and I guess while, I mean, while you're there, because you joined in 2006, right around the time, right before the iPhone comes out. 3 times in the scene

Square: Jim McKelvey. He Lost a $2,000 Sale, Then Built a $10 Billion Company Feb 23, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 36:03 Guy Raz So it's around 2008, 2009, and Jim McKelvey has an idea that could be a game changer for small business using an iPhone to help read credit cards. 7 times in the scene

Advice Line with Scott Tannen of Boll & Branch and Jamie Siminoff of Ring Dec 11, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 37:23 Guy Raz You want to make an app on the iPhone that you can connect with a binocular, and there you go. 2 times in the scene

WHOOP: Will Ahmed Jul 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 39:46 Guy Raz And just to be clear, you would see this on your iPhone. 2 times in the scene

Calm: Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith May 26, 2025 · 2 mentions

Advice Line with Luis von Ahn of Duolingo May 1, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 28:23 Guy Raz There's a lot of creatives there, and is there a way for you to start, sort of start to try and find that wormhole initially into the creative community in Atlanta who are like, oh, what's that, you know, what's that cool merino wool case… 3 times in the scene

Snap: Evan Spiegel Apr 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 13:57 Guy Raz And you designed it initially for the iPhone, to work on the iPhone? 2 times in the scene

Resy and Eater: Ben Leventhal Jan 20, 2025 · 1 mention

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.

Advice Line with Jamie Siminoff of Ring Aug 22, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:27 Guy Raz Like he was really kind of playing into the absurd, but you can imagine like with a small budget and a couple of iPhones making a really funny video that also shows the functionality.

Twitter, Medium and Blogger: Ev Williams May 6, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:31 Guy Raz And it's still before the iPhone comes out, so people are doing this on, most people are like, I'm sitting at my desk working on my computer.

YouTube Creator and Cookbook Author: Rosanna Pansino Apr 22, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:54 Guy Raz And did you, like, I mean, at the time, I mean, you know, I mean, iPhone cameras were around.

CrunchLabs: Mark Rober Apr 15, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:52 Guy Raz Is this something that you were particularly good at, or adept at, or just were kind of casual, like, assuming you had an iPhone, and you would just make little videos, or tell me about, you know, 2008, 2009, like, what, were you playing…

“Beaming” people anywhere in the world with David Nussbaum of Proto Mar 28, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 24:15 Guy Raz And, and for maybe, you know, for people who are going to use this to perform or whatever, but how do you see consumers, you know, people who've got an iPhone, people who are, you know, 2 times in the scene

AI that can be your second brain with Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri of Humane Mar 14, 2024 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 4:13 Guy Raz Bethany, you joined about 10 years after Imran started, but still, I mean, right after the iPhone kind of shipped, um, is when you joined, and soon, I guess, you were kind of put in charge as a project manager involved with the iPad. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:11 Guy Raz My iPhone, like, you're, you're, you're in this thing. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:50 Guy Raz And it's, um, it's really distressing because I, I actually think that, that these products, as incredible as they are, I'm holding up an iPhone right now, um, and as life-changing and groundbreaking as they are, um, 4 times in the scene

Poshmark: Manish Chandra Feb 26, 2024 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 2:55 Guy Raz In the case of Poshmark, the connection was a high school football game in the iPhone four.
  • ▶ 3:15 Guy Raz Playing around with the latest iPhone, which had new technology that enabled really great quality photos. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:15 Guy Raz And I think when you came up with the idea for Poshmark, it was inspired by a lot of different things, but it kind of started with the iPhone, right? 2 times in the scene

Sonos: John MacFarlane Feb 19, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 33:42 Guy Raz And, and again, and this is pre-iPhone, so, but still, now you had, if your computer was connected to the Sonos system, uses a Rhapsody on it, and then you were good to go. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 44:34 Guy Raz Like the Blackberry, when, when they first saw the iPhone, they were like, eh.

Magic Spoon & Exo: Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz Feb 12, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:34 Guy Raz Was it like a really slick video, or was it kind of just an iPhone video?

Charging up the electric vehicle market with RJ Scaringe of Rivian Dec 28, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:17 Guy Raz You're just saying, hey, you know, heads up, you know, I'm in the, you're like in the grocery parking lot, and somebody's looking at their iPhone.

Framing the future of eyecare with Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa of Warby Parker Dec 14, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:48 Guy Raz People might then go and subscribe to the show on their iPhone or whatever, however they use it, right?

Full body preventive health care with Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo Dec 7, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 27:03 Guy Raz No, um, but what they found in my case was some degradation of my cervical spine, so in my neck, and that, that's, I think more and more of this is being found because of iPhones. 2 times in the scene

Unlocking the renewable energy revolution with Ramya Swaminathan of Malta Inc. Oct 12, 2023 · 1 mention

A biometric smart gun with Kai Kloepfer of Biofire Oct 5, 2023 · 3 mentions

Grindr: Joel Simkhai Jul 17, 2023 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 2:53 Guy Raz That year, Steve Jobs made the iPhone open to third party apps. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:52 Guy Raz And, and like you said before, I mean, there weren't a lot of people out there at the time who, who even knew how to make iPhone apps. 3 times in the scene

Delivering the future in drones with Keller Rinaudo Cliffton of Zipline Jul 13, 2023 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:54 Guy Raz The company basically built an application on an iPhone that turned it into a mini robot.
  • ▶ 4:09 Guy Raz iPhones? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:48 Guy Raz So initially it started out as, as like, let's use the iPhone to be the brains of a little toy robot.
  • ▶ 11:39 Guy Raz We're going to take a quick break, but when we come back, how Keller shifted from rolling iPhones to flying couriers.

HIBT Lab! Hevesh5: Lily Hevesh Apr 27, 2023 · 1 mention

HIBT Lab! MKBHD: Marques Brownlee Nov 3, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:56 Guy Raz Not like today, but, you know, you know, you already had quite a bit of attention, and you were reviewing the new iPhones, and so on.

HIBT Lab! Cruise: Kyle Vogt Oct 27, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:48 Guy Raz You're, like, on your iPhone or whatever, you're just, like, doing your thing, or, you know, you're just zoned out.

Wirecutter: Brian Lam Oct 10, 2022 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 2:24 Guy Raz You might remember it as the site that broke the story of the iPhone four several months before it was released.
  • ▶ 28:51 Guy Raz Basically, you guys got a hold of an iPhone, four G months before it was to be released. 4 times in the scene

HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman Sep 29, 2022 · 2 mentions

HOORAE: Issa Rae Sep 26, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:23 Guy Raz Um, and would you, would you, would you like, this is pre iPhones too, would you just film it on like a camcorder?

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

  • ▶ 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,

Discord: Jason Citron Mar 7, 2022 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Dec 13, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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…

Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney Sep 20, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:00 Guy Raz But what, first of all, what kind of camera, like, was it an iPhone camera?

Live From The HIBT Summit: Adam Grant Aug 19, 2021 · 2 mentions

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

  • ▶ 8:32 Guy Raz You know, sticking with this idea of small tweaks and tweaks and tweaks, Tristan, I always think about how you, it wasn't only that you were taking an old technology and reviving it, but it was also how you approach the packaging and the…

Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut Jul 12, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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.

Meet The HIBT Fellows: Pierre Paul & Toby Egbuna May 11, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:31 Guy Raz And this is like an iPhone or like an iPad that was recording? 2 times in the scene

How I Built Resilience: Bayard Winthrop of American Giant Apr 22, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:33 Guy Raz Yeah, and I think, um, probably case in point is the iPhone, which is, of course, made in China, and it's a phenomenal product.

Hinge: Justin McLeod Mar 22, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:11 Guy Raz And that was because by 20 12, you yourself, presumably, and all your friends were using iPhones?

Boxed: Chieh Huang Feb 22, 2021 · 1 mention

How I Built Resilience: Michael Horvath and Mark Gainey of Strava Feb 11, 2021 · 1 mention

Riot Games: Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill Dec 14, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 45:45 Guy Raz And, and in 2008, when you were pitching this, this was still pre-iPhone.
  • ▶ 1:08:20 Guy Raz You have an iPhone, your apps are automated, if you have it set that way, they're just automatically updated every week or so, and you know, we don't even notice.

Dropbox: Drew Houston Nov 9, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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.

How I Built Resilience (Special Edition): Guy Raz Sep 12, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 17:27 Guy Raz I mean, the iPhone was invented by employees of Apple. 2 times in the scene

Tatcha: Vicky Tsai Jul 13, 2020 · 1 mention

Ring: Jamie Siminoff Jun 22, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:05 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Jamie Siminoff figured out how to answer the door with his iPhone, and how that little side project grew into Ring, a business he sold for a billion dollars.

Jo Loves: Jo Malone CBE May 18, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:02 Guy Raz When Tristan Walker created the bevel razor, he wanted the unboxing experience to be as exciting as the iPhone.

Live Episode! OtterBox: Curt Richardson Dec 2, 2019 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 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
  • ▶ 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 Sep 30, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:49 Guy Raz Like, when you get an iPhone, it's so beautiful, it's simple, you just pop off the top, you open it up, no instruction book, it's seamless, it's clean.

Shopify: Tobias Lütke Aug 5, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:46 Guy Raz Kylie's PR and marketing team is her iPhone, from which she can reach a hundred and forty million of her Instagram followers.

Dyson: James Dyson (2018) Jul 22, 2019 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 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 Jun 24, 2019 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 43:03 Guy Raz When the iPhone came out, you guys were pretty early, I think you were one of the earliest apps on there, so did you know, or did you feel like right away, this is 4 times in the scene

Lululemon Athletica: Chip Wilson Jun 18, 2018 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 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.

Warby Parker: Dave Gilboa & Neil Blumenthal (2016) Feb 19, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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.

Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman Aug 31, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:09 Guy Raz This would have been like a pre-app, because it's pre-iPhone, so it would have been like on a Blackberry or a cell phone or something, or? 2 times in the scene

Live Episode! BuzzFeed: Jonah Peretti Jul 27, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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
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