Apple, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Apple comes up
Building Meter for decades, not an exit | Anil Varanasi (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 9:37 Anil Varanasi Apple moved from using Intel silicon to their own silicon. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:19 Anil Varanasi There were multiple moments, COVID, this Apple thing, supply chain, whatever, you know, studying businesses now the last two decades, I think for any business.
- ▶ 1:07:50 Anil Varanasi I have now understood why Apple does it.
Saying yes to everything: How customer obsession built Samsara | Kiren Sekar (CPO)
- ▶ 8:27 Kiren Sekar If you think about Apple in its heyday, it was a design first company, or Google in its incredibly high growth period, I would say it was like a technology first company.
From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 14:17 Abhinav Asthana And, and I read a lot about Apple. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:59 Abhinav Asthana And the idea is going to come back, like, you know, Apple's trying out like augmented reality as well, but you just can't will it, you know, if, if the customers are not ready.
Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B fintech unicorn (Mercury)
- ▶ 19:22 Imad Akhund One was bought by Twitter at the time, and the other one was bought at Apple. 2 times in the scene
Inside the ex-YC partner’s $15B self driving car company | Qasar Younis
- ▶ 30:14 Qasar Younis You take Apple, Apple spent tens of billions of dollars trying to build a car.
- ▶ 48:21 Qasar Younis The Steve Jobs at 19 starting Apple.
How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder)
- ▶ 1:07:32 David Cramer You know, given I was at Dropbox, there was that famous thing where, you know, Apple said Dropbox was a feature and I'm like, I'd agree.
- ▶ 1:39:02 David Cramer So Beats, like the headphone company that Apple now owns, there was, um, an event where the, I think former CMO, Omar Johnson was speaking about marketing and brand and all this stuff and how Beats competed. 2 times in the scene
Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product building | Karri Saarinen (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 1:00:16 Karri Saarinen And like, I think it's more like the Apple ways. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:17 Karri Saarinen It's like, are you the Apple of, of this industry?
1Password’s growth story | How they went from bootstrapped to $6B company | Jeff Shiner (CEO)
- ▶ 3:26 Jeff Shiner I think they had a reader for Android and something similar for Windows, but it was really very much of an Apple focused company.