App Store, every mention
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every year anyone Lenny Rachitsky 19Ebi Atawodi 6Shishir Mehrotra 5Sebastian Barrios 5Nikita Bier 3Gaurav Misra 3Mike Krieger 2Jason Shah 1Jason Fried 1Eric Ries 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where App Store comes up
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
- ▶ 1:00:44 Anish Acharya And actually just like the web two point O era, unlike the mobile era where you had the app store
Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- ▶ 2:04 Lenny Rachitsky How Codex allowed the Sora team to ship the Sora app, which became the number one app in the app store in under one month.
- ▶ 48:31 Lenny Rachitsky What makes that even more insane is it was the, it became the number one app in the app store. 2 times in the scene
Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour
- ▶ 1:27 Lenny Rachitsky Including Facebook's ad platform, Google Ads and SEO, and the Apple App Store.
35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
- ▶ 1:06 Lenny Rachitsky Over the course of his career that spanned over three decades, Bob has played a pivotal role in the design of the Apple Online Store, the Apple App Store, Pinterest, and early in his career, Yahoo Answers, products that have been used by…
Mercado Libre: 18k engineers, 30k deploys a day, & their own fleet of planes | Sebastian Barrios
- ▶ 0:13 Sebastian Barrios We're not going to be able to have it on the App Store. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:37 Lenny Rachitsky You put an app store. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:10 Sebastian Barrios I think it still does to, to upload an app to the app store. 3 times in the scene
Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
- ▶ 32:58 Mike Krieger So Joel Lewinstein, who I've known, he actually, he and I built our first iPhone apps together in 2007, when the app store was just out and you could still, you know, make money by selling dollar apps on the app store, you know, back in… 2 times in the scene
Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu
- ▶ 2:59 Lenny Rachitsky Interpret unifies all your customer interactions from Gong calls to Zendesk tickets to Twitter threads to App Store reviews and makes it available for analysis.
Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR
- ▶ 2:27 Lenny Rachitsky Interpret unifies all your customer interactions, from Gong Calls, to Zendesk tickets, to Twitter threads, to App Store reviews, and makes it available for analysis.
How to win in the AI era: Ship weekly, embrace technical debt, ruthlessly cut scope, and more
- ▶ 1:15:26 Gaurav Misra I call my close founder on Monday and like, it's at the top of the app store. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:15 Gaurav Misra The social network that we had at the time, we actually removed it from the App Store, so it's not available anymore.
Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at GV)
- ▶ 45:59 Lenny Rachitsky Interpret unifies all your customer interactions from Gong calls to Zendesk tickets, to Twitter threads, to App Store reviews, and makes it available for analysis.
How to consistently go viral: Nikita Bier’s playbook for winning at consumer apps
- ▶ 26:02 Nikita Bier And, uh, as we were kind of sketching things out, I looked on the app store and the number one app
- ▶ 1:05:59 Nikita Bier And I was like, I'm just going to plant the flag and, and on posts that we hit number one in the app store, because this thing's probably going to shut down soon. 2 times in the scene
Building product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession | Jeff Weinstein (Product lead)
- ▶ 8:11 Lenny Rachitsky Cycle unifies all of your customer interactions from support chats to user research, gong calls, and app store reviews into one neat collaborative space.
Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- ▶ 5:42 Lenny Rachitsky Interpret unifies all of your customer interactions from Gong calls to Zendesk tickets to Twitter threads to App Store reviews and makes it available for your product team.
The social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon | Jessica Livingston (co-founder of YC, author)
- ▶ 5:24 Lenny Rachitsky Interpret unifies all of your customer interactions from gong calls to Zendesk tickets to Twitter threads to App Store reviews and makes it available for your product team.
The surprising truth about what closes deals: Insights from 2.5m sales conversations | Matt Dixon
- ▶ 6:22 Lenny Rachitsky Interpret unifies all of your customer interactions, from gong calls to Zendesk tickets to Twitter threads to App Store reviews, and makes it available for your product team.
Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more
- ▶ 20:40 Jason Fried You can come up with a name, and you can make a thing, and you can put it in the app store, and you can sell for two bucks, and, like, you got a business going, right?
Crafting a compelling product vision | Ebi Atawodi (YouTube, Netflix, Uber)
- ▶ 25:32 Ebi Atawodi You know, when you go on the app store, it has like the, you know, make money or express yourself, or what, what, what are we trying to say? 6 times in the scene
Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
How to price your product | Naomi Ionita (Menlo Ventures)
- ▶ 40:12 Lenny Rachitsky It just reminds me of the number one app in the App Store at this point.
An inside look at how the New York Times builds product | Alex Hardiman (CPO, the New York Times)
- ▶ 6:41 Alex Hardiman And even like the iPhone two G and the app store didn't come out, I think until like
Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy)
- ▶ 51:28 Jason Shah Things like an M&A offer falling through the day before your wedding, or chewing glass and submitting to the Apple iStore and being a featured app, and then resubmitting because we wanted to fix a bug, and then actually now it crashes 90%…
The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra, Coda, YouTube, Microsoft
- ▶ 16:29 Shishir Mehrotra He said that Dakota Gallery feels halfway between medium and an app store. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:58 Shishir Mehrotra when it first shipped had no app store. 2 times in the scene