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How Tanay Tandon is Building a $100 Billion Healthcare AI Company
- ▶ 39:48 Tanay Tandon So I think some of our practices today, especially in outpatient settings, uh, were, will literally, the provider will walk in with a microphone and, or maybe, you know, something running on their Apple watch and they will see the patient.
ChatGPT Killed My $50M ARR Business Overnight | Swapnil Jain Observe Al
- ▶ 27:30 unnamed speaker Globally the highest mentioned Apple category.
The New Rules of Startups Moats with 3x Founder Mahesh Ram ex-Zoom Al
- ▶ 48:18 Mahesh Ram These are very senior people at, you know, companies from OpenAI to NVIDIA to, to Apple and Adobe, uh, and,
And How Matic Won By Choosing the Most Boring Market in Robotics with Founders Mehul and Navneet
- ▶ 9:57 Navneet Dalal So the, the, the, let's, let's take some historical examples that would be perhaps very good example for when Apple worked on the iPods back in, ah, like, you know, 2001 and two, we were already using Walkmans. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:05 Mehul Nariyawala You know, in 1995, there was a company called General Magic started by these two guys named Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld, who were the, um, one of the most distinguished engineers in the Apple Macintosh team. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:08 Navneet Dalal Like, you know, Apple even ranked it in their App Store as one of the best apps of the year. 2 times in the scene
The Hidden Layer Every Al Product Needs Today | Atin Sanyal Founder, Galileo
- ▶ 2:38 Atin Sanyal So I joined a very early post-acquisition Siri team at Apple, and the team was about 30, 35 people, still the founders were there, and, um, I ended up, it was a long story to, to, to join that team, but I ended up working there for
- ▶ 3:31 Atin Sanyal Uh, at Apple, I had worked towards the end of my stint at Apple. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:59 Atin Sanyal And I feel like I had to do a lot of unlearning of, uh, certain habits which I had built while working in big tech, because not all problems are Apple and Uber level problems, especially in the enterprise.
How 3 Friends From Coimbatore Run Olympics and Super Bowl | The Untold Amagi Story
- ▶ 22:25 Baskar Subramanian We didn't even know how big the business was, but we had to take that call to do that and set a kind of completely new lifestyle that he settled in there from Apple.
- ▶ 55:10 Srividya Srinivasan For me, the role models are all the, you know, people whom we all looked at, like, you know, be it from the founders of Apple, founder of Microsoft, all those stories we have heard and, you know, we have seen the software that they've…
- ▶ 59:48 Baskar Subramanian Obviously Apple was not there at one time, so we were like ahead of that time.
India's Answer To China's Control On Global Supply Chain | Bhaktha, Chara Tech
- ▶ 3:58 Bhaktha Keshavachar The Apple iPhone production, which happens somewhere here, right?
- ▶ 59:20 Bhaktha Keshavachar Ah, now, ah, lot of things I can't disclose, obviously, but what publicly I can, whatever is publicly known, um, Apple came to Intel to build the iPhone chip.
How Capillary Built a Culture That Created 50+ Founders | Aneesh Reddy
- ▶ 59:18 Aneesh Reddy So it basically uses the Apple, you know, visual framework and all that stuff.
Why "Boring" Infrastructure is the Best Path to a $60B Company | Manish Jindal, Cloudflare & Arize
- ▶ 0:01 Manish Jindal It was very clear that we don't want a customer like Apple. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:53 Manish Jindal I mean, if, if you bring in, I don't know, Apple as a customer, more than likely, like, Apple is going to dictate your roadmap, you know, like, so, you know, one of our competitor, my biggest customer was Apple. 9 times in the scene
The $600B Grocery Market Is Obsessed With Speed — FirstClub Is Betting on Quality | Ayyappan
- ▶ 6:22 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And what are, what does it take to build these type of counter trend companies like Apple? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:59 Ayyappan Rajagopal So any big brand, ah, whether it is an electronic of, ah, Apple or Tesla or a very, very simple product, anything in life, you look at it,
- ▶ 35:47 Ayyappan Rajagopal For me, I want to buy electronics, and for me, Apple sort of an ecosystem is needed, and I'm connected across my devices, so iOS is important, so there I will not sort of compromise, right? 3 times in the scene
Is AI changing EVEN the Top Roles in startups?
- ▶ 36:06 Umesh Padval And also doing chips for companies like Cisco and Sun Microsystem and, uh, Silicon Graphics and others which were leading providers and Apple.
What Mistake Founders Make With A-Players | Matt MacInnis | COO Rippling
- ▶ 6:25 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And the second question that I have is that you've worked with Apple for seven years, and you talk about death march, like, and how. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:26 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So after Apple, you started your own company, Inkling. 9 times in the scene
Best of 3500 Minutes from Top Founders & Investors in 2025
- ▶ 41:21 Ashish Toshniwal It's either Amazon, Apple, or some heavily funded startup. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:28 unnamed speaker I mean, Apple I guess did, but Google didn't, you know, at some point it just becomes as a consumer, Hey, the product is going to extract out the best model for my use case.
What 20 Years of Investing taught Somesh Dash of IVP after backing Perplexity, Figma, Dropbox
- ▶ 18:05 Somesh Dash I mean, Apple, I guess, did, but Google didn't, you know.
How One Indian Company Powers the World’s Hotels & Airlines | Bhanu Chopra, RateGain
- ▶ 39:29 Bhanu Chopra But one example I used to take off quite fondly, uh, when I've done these kinds of, uh, podcasts or, or conversations is give the Apple, you know, example. 2 times in the scene
How Ashish Toshniwal built a $350M Co after an email from Steve jobs | Ashish Toshniwal
- ▶ 0:05 Ashish Toshniwal Let me know how I can help best steam as jobs at apple.com.
- ▶ 6:52 Ashish Toshniwal Let me know how I can help best steam as jobs at apple.com. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:42 Ashish Toshniwal It's either Amazon, Apple, or some heavily funded startup. 2 times in the scene
GPT-5 is NOT Your Competitor It's GPT-7 |Ashu Garg, Foundation Capital | Databricks,Turing, Cohesity
Is China Behind Pakistan's Military Moves? | US Tariffs Hitting India’s Economy w/ Rajiv Sikri
- ▶ 13:33 Rajiv Sikri I mean, for example, ah, President Trump has told Apple don't manufacture in India, manufacture in USA, but how 2 times in the scene
From 70% Imports to 65% Made in India, India Now Sells Defense Tech to 85+ Countries | Ashok Atluri
- ▶ 2:05 Siddhartha Ahluwalia For example, we were discussing previous to the podcast, like how Make in India campaign is encouraging manufacturing, which is great, but, uh, Apple, which sells the iPhone for 1200 dollars, roughly one lakh rupees, maybe putting four 50… 5 times in the scene
Paras Chopra: How To Build A Successful Startup In India | Sold Wingify For $200 Million
- ▶ 48:02 Paras Chopra And, uh, if it was easy to build, uh, big companies in algorithmic fashion, these big companies would already, when they're sitting on tons of profit, Apple, Google Infosys also, why, why are they not generating tons of innovative startups?
How NVIDIA, Meta & Dropbox Taught Me To Build Great Products | Vasanth, Founder - Featurely
- ▶ 21:00 Vasanth Namasivayam And I'm picking on Apple, not because I want to pick on it, but I think it's one of the greatest products.
WHAT Will Decide The Next Superpower? | Raja Manickam | iVP Semiconductor
- ▶ 1:20:45 Raja Manickam Uh, there are microprocessors, you know, like, uh, Apple or Intel, which are using two, two nanometer, three nanometer, but you know, they're not as efficient as a, probably in an Nvidia chip.
Why This Founder Won’t Sell Zomato for 10 Years | India’s Top Consumer Tech Bet?
- ▶ 38:30 Deepak Garg Companies like Apple will make more iPhones here.
How Accel Deploys $650M in India & Manages $5B in Growth + Late Stage | Prayank Swaroop
- ▶ 21:14 Prayank Swaroop So imagine a mobile phone one year from now, which has AI built into it, not the Apple intelligence, but even better, what will it look like?
Nvidia’s Success, Chip Race, India’s Semiconductor Mission, & Hardware Vs Software | Raja Manickam
- ▶ 16:39 Raja Manickam Um, I mean, even if you look at your Apple iPhone and so on, right, there's so much of technology that goes into the hardware, right? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:53 Siddhartha Ahluwalia These are called M one and M two chips, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:53 Siddhartha Ahluwalia These are called M one and M two chips, right?
- ▶ 18:01 Raja Manickam And then now they make that M one M three.
- ▶ 24:27 Raja Manickam So Apple is a very classic case, right?
How I Built A $1B Business | Kirthiga Reddy, Founder, Verix | The Neon Show
- ▶ 22:19 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And Motorola was an apple of its time.
Why Top Global VCs Are Eyeing India | Boris Wertz | Version One Ventures | The Neon Show
- ▶ 46:26 Boris Wertz It's a little bit, um, kind of, um, what, what is the lesson from Steve Jobs having built Apple?
Former SOFTBANK CFO: My Honest Experience Working With Masayoshi Son | Alok Sama | The Neon Show
India's Road To $10 Trillion Economy With Subhash Garg, Former Secretary Of Economic Affairs
- ▶ 49:49 Subhash Chandra Garg Apple has substantially shifted the production to India.
Policybazaar Founder On IPO, India 1,2,3, Sanjeev Bikhchandani, & Insurance Market | Neon Show
- ▶ 52:25 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You control the entire experience, just like Apple in digital world.
BigBasket Co-founder on 10 Min Delivery, TATA Acquisition, Wealth Creation & More | Neon Show
- ▶ 41:36 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet, Apple, and Amazon. 3 times in the scene
$2.5 Billion Tech Empire Built On Acquisitions, Efficiency, & Pure Ambition w/ Founder, Luca Ferrari
- ▶ 39:59 Luca Ferrari The assumptions we had behind Evernote was not, uh, we only do well with this deal if now we obliterate Notion and gain market share back from Apple Notes or whatever, like, um, sure, we will try to do that if possible, but, uh, it's… 2 times in the scene
$10 Trillion Goal, Reverse Brain Drain & IPO Market I Nansi & Siddhartha On India’s Bright Future
- ▶ 10:46 Siddhartha (Siddharth) Uh, we always talk about, uh, now the NVIDIA, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta.
China Expert: “India Must Copy This From China To Stay Ahead!” Manoj Kewalramani | Neon Show
- ▶ 14:32 Manoj Kewalramani You, you would, I mean, in the, towards the first decade of the 2000, towards around 2008 to 10, you would have read stories of, you know, sweatshops in China, manufacturing, you know, gap t-shirts, uh, or, you know, how badly Apple…
2024 VC Updates, IPO Trends, And Fundraising Advice with Churchill’s Raja Doddala I Neon Show
- ▶ 5:39 Siddhartha Ahluwalia University endowments would go back investing in VCs approximately 40 years since the time of Apple.
Reverse Brain Drain, Reality Of Venture Capital And India’s Next 10 Year Explained By Top Indian VCs
- ▶ 42:16 Amit Somani Like, you know, at 11, the dude went and bought Apple stock.
Wealth Creation For Employees Explained By Sri Batchu (Ramp, Instacart, Opendoor) I The Neon Show
- ▶ 29:00 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, I believe after Apple and Microsoft, uh, uh, so, so you don't know, right?
Dear Indians, Watch This Before Moving To America - Varun Mayya’s Brutally Honest Career Advice
- ▶ 40:21 Varun Mayya I think many of these people will, will have AI on their home screens because it makes absolute sense for Apple with Siri. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:18 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Will India produce anything like Apple, Microsoft, or OpenAI even? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:22 Varun Mayya If you are using a mobile phone, it's either using the Apple phones, or you're using the Android phones. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:26 Varun Mayya And I know the VR, the Vision Pro has come out and stuff.
- ▶ 1:02:38 Varun Mayya Apple said Facebook is a villain, Facebook is stealing your data, blah, blah, blah, blah, and now you have to opt into apps, including Facebook, Instagram, etc., right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:00 Varun Mayya Well then, next few weeks later, they just launched the Apple Ads thing, right?
- ▶ 1:03:03 Varun Mayya Which is on, now on Maps and a bunch of other places.
How Have Indian Consumers Evolved In The Last 10 Years, Ankush Sachdeva, Founder, ShareChat and Moj
- ▶ 43:49 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, Google and Apple can block.
Early Investor of Ola, Urban Company & Mamaearth Shares Startup Success Secrets | Neon Show
- ▶ 31:14 Rohit Bansal You know, in a, when you buy an Apple iPhone, you know, it is an Apple iPhone.
PM Modi’s Economic Advisor On Kolkata’s Decline, Amrit Kaal & $10 Trillion Economy I Sanjeev Sanyal
- ▶ 57:08 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, right?
Watch This BEFORE Renting Out Your Property In India! | SEBI Manager Deepak Shenoy on The Neon Show
- ▶ 51:45 Deepak Shenoy Two hundred and fifty billion dollars is smaller than just add Amazon and Apple.
Wealth Creation, Life's Purpose, Brotherly Stories - Paras & Pallav on Building Global SaaS Products
- ▶ 25:18 Pallav Nadhani There are, let's say a couple of 100,000 people at Google, Apple, Meta, all of those. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:56 Paras Chopra So Google's don't be evil, Apple's think different, whatever mission statements, they are great for you to believe that you are doing something meaningful, but the whole logic of capitalism, I think that forces you to prioritize profits… 2 times in the scene
ATHER FOUNDER: "Selling Over 11,000 Scooters Per Month & Creating India's Best EV Brand" | Tarun M
- ▶ 2:04 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I would say that, and I would equate you to the Apple in India, because I think you are one of the very few brands that believed in creating the end to end ecosystem.
- ▶ 56:21 Tarun Mehta We don't want to be, so if I were to give polar examples, Hero is super mass market, but obviously with beautiful margins, uh, and Royal Enfield is super niche, but amazingly Apple-like margins. 3 times in the scene
Joining Deepika to Manage her Investments to Building 82°East with her ft. Jigar K Shah
- ▶ 30:07 Jigar Shah So globally, if I have a North star, like it's brands like Apple.
- ▶ 31:51 Jigar Shah Uh, and hence I gave names of Apple, Mercedes, Dyson, these brands
The Reality of Web3 That Only Few know ft Santosh Panda, Co-Founder, Foundership
- ▶ 24:22 Siddhartha Ahluwalia The Intel of the world, Apples of the world, Facebooks of the world.
How to Build a Second Brain? THIS Will Change Your Life! | Ft. Tiago Forte | 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 1:03 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So digital note taking apps you would have encountered, you know, Apple notes, Rome research, but how to use them effectively, how to make sure that, you know, your brain is only used as a processing device and not as a hard drive.
- ▶ 3:49 Tiago Forte I was working at the Apple Store in San Diego, going to college.
- ▶ 32:02 Tiago Forte Install the mobile app on your phone, put it right on the dock on the front homepage, install it on your tablet, install it on your computer, on your Apple Watch, put it in the little menu bar up at the top of your computer, install the,…
The Process & Preparation of IPO Ft. Tracxn Technologies Founders Neha Singh & Abhishek Goyal
- ▶ 34:52 Abhishek Goyal As a country, we want to build companies like Apple or Cisco, we have to, or Salesforce, we have to stop selling our companies.
The Playbook To Build 2000Cr+ Revenue SaaS Company, Ft. Oren Kaniel, Founder-AppsFlyer
- ▶ 6:20 Oren Kaniel Uh, back then I was using a BlackBerry like, uh, many of us, uh, and, and I was sure that Apple didn't have a chance to compete with this amazing device.
Building Product That Sells Itself Ft. Dheeraj Pandey, CEO-DevRev, Co-Founder-Nutanix
- ▶ 53:26 Dheeraj Pandey And, you know, we felt cornered very similar to the way Apple felt cornered by Google when it came to location services. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:37 Dheeraj Pandey And that's when they said, look, we're going to do our own maps.
- ▶ 54:26 Dheeraj Pandey That was a way to plug and play just the way Apple insisted.
- ▶ 1:04:11 Dheeraj Pandey I was an empathetic person even before that, but I think growing with Apple since 2009,
From Selling Mobile Covers To Building a 1000Crore Revenue D2C Brand ft. Amit Khatri, Founder-Noise
- ▶ 4:51 Amit Khatri I mean, India, it was all just super expensive brands like Apple or Fitbit, or you call cheap Chinese knockoff.
- ▶ 20:17 Amit Khatri I mean, one is Apple, second is Samsung, third is noise, and we are top 10 in the world now.
- ▶ 29:18 Siddhartha Ahluwalia If people wanted best quality, you had to either go to Apple or in Android, the next best to Samsung.
- ▶ 36:08 Amit Khatri So, you know, Apple is a good example for all of us. 2 times in the scene
Creating TIMELESS MARKETING CAMPAIGNS & Building An ICONIC BRAND! ft. Karan Shroff@unacademy
- ▶ 23:40 Karan Shroff So let me draw a couple of examples, you know, when, when like a Nike, uh, or an Apple today, you know, when they come out with any product, you, you immediately trust, uh, their communication. 2 times in the scene
Avlesh Singh on BUILDING WebEngage, 100 Cr Revenue Company & Being Resilient in the Last 10 Years!
- ▶ 43:49 Avlesh Singh Um, or, or for that matter, you know, other B to B companies, Apple, Google, companies which have gone public in the last year or whereabouts.
Sabeer Bhatia on building Hotmail, acquisition from Microsoft and the journey ahead
- ▶ 23:05 Siddhartha Ahluwalia They can take one bet and coming back to the question of, you know, timing and being in the right market, but companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, you know, they can take multiple bets.
Blume Ventures, Director on Investing in future of Electric Vehicles ft. Arpit Agarwal
- ▶ 39:16 Siddhartha Ahluwalia It's almost like building your, uh, own Apple devices, which Steve Jobs propelled that it should be done by, by the end to end yourself.
Nazara Technologies founder on IPO and future of the Company @NazaraGames
- ▶ 19:25 Nitish Mittersain No, I, I think that news was from, for, uh, the one you're referring to was, I think, a UK, uh, UK news, and obviously, uh, you know, Apple provides a security, uh, uh, locks over there, so something must have gone awry over there, but I…
Inside the mind of Abhishek Goyal, Co-Founder, Tracxn | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast | Top Podcast Ep
- ▶ 46:25 Abhishek Goyal Think about if you were a series B investor in Apple, it doesn't make sense to even sell till today, right?
Jon Sakoda, Founder, Decibel Partners on importance of having a coach for early-stage founders
- ▶ 14:41 Siddhartha Ahluwalia If somebody's wanting to invest in hardware startups, I think an early stage investment firm with Apple would be wonderful.
Inside the mind of Shripriya Mahesh, Founding Partner, Spero Ventures
- ▶ 28:17 Shripriya Mahesh You know, um, Apple just made the switch from the touch based, um, your fingerprint, uh, to unlock, to face ID.
Shruti Gandhi, Array Ventures on taking SaaS companies from Zero to $10 Million ARR
- ▶ 0:51 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Till now, uh, RA Ventures has five exits in the last three years to companies such as Apple, GoDaddy, McGraw Hill, Samsung, and Brocade.
Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital on Technical insights and building a fund for Engineers
- ▶ 38:26 Ashmeet Sidana People had tried many types of smartphones before, including Microsoft, Blackberry itself, and including Apple itself in previous incantations, and then of course there was Go, etc. 2 times in the scene
Sajith Pai, Blume Ventures on building personal brands, being open-minded, and unlearning to succeed
- ▶ 10:18 Sajith Pai So I do all my notes in Apple notes. 7 times in the scene
@unacademy founder on Building a 3 Billion Edtech Giant ft. Gaurav Munjal
- ▶ 17:23 Gaurav Munjal I use Apple notes.
- ▶ 35:16 Gaurav Munjal You know, overall level experience, Apple level experience.
- ▶ 40:39 Gaurav Munjal Apple stands for beautiful products that help you create stuff. 2 times in the scene
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