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And How Matic Won By Choosing the Most Boring Market in Robotics with Founders Mehul and Navneet
- ▶ 10:24 Navneet Dalal When they did the iPhones, again, like, oh, people are using Nokia phones, Blackberries, et cetera.
- ▶ 29:21 Mehul Nariyawala That was Tony Fidel, Nest, co-founder's first company, and they massively failed. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:37 Mehul Nariyawala We were getting, uh, internet and iPhone cameras were solving a bunch of problems, but it wasn't obvious to you.
He Built "GPT For Shopping" And Got 450M+ Users | Naveen Tewari
- ▶ 13:05 Naveen Tewari But then we realized that wait a second, because iPhone had just come out, we were able to bet on a belief.
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.
After $9B IPO This Founder is Rebuilding Internet for Agents | Sudheesh Nair, Thoughtspot, Nutanix
- ▶ 10:42 Sudheesh Nair When you got into the Waymo, you probably had an iPhone.
Best of 3500 Minutes from Top Founders & Investors in 2025
- ▶ 3:12 unnamed speaker If you see, um, cult of any kind, even people who love iPhones, lot of them are very similar value system.
What 20 Years of Investing taught Somesh Dash of IVP after backing Perplexity, Figma, Dropbox
- ▶ 46:43 Somesh Dash Like, it felt slow, and then this thing called iPhone came out, and then boom, there was a boom in consumer.
Why Finding Your ‘Rapido Bet’ and Surviving Your ‘Meesho Miss is the Best Job | Pratik & Brij
- ▶ 19:14 Brij Bhushan When I was running my company, I would see employees at entry-level salaries carrying iPhones, and I used to be shocked, like, if I would do that, my dad would actually say, what's happening?
How Ashish Toshniwal built a $350M Co after an email from Steve jobs | Ashish Toshniwal
- ▶ 8:34 Ashish Toshniwal So it became a great craze and it was a, such a different form factor before, like iPhone, there was no such thing as mobile engineering, mobile design, right?
8 Years Without Funding to $100M Raise & Now A Category Leader | Shivku Ganesan ,Exotel
- ▶ 43:11 Shivakumar Ganesan Now you take your iPhone and then you compare with that phone.
Is China Behind Pakistan's Military Moves? | US Tariffs Hitting India’s Economy w/ Rajiv Sikri
- ▶ 35:35 Rajiv Sikri They're calling back their, uh, engineers, technicians who are working on iPhone production because India is emerging as an iPhone thing. 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…
Growth, Migration and FDI: The Real Kerala Story with Minister P. Rajeev
What Startups Can Learn from a $1.7B Co. Chief Information Officer | Karthik Chakkarapani
- ▶ 22:48 Karthik Chakkarapani So, likewise, if I take an old example, we were happy, we didn't need an iPhone.
Paras Chopra: How To Build A Successful Startup In India | Sold Wingify For $200 Million
- ▶ 1:48 Paras Chopra If you see, um, cult of any kind, even people who love iPhones, lot of them are very similar value system.
How NVIDIA, Meta & Dropbox Taught Me To Build Great Products | Vasanth, Founder - Featurely
- ▶ 20:40 Vasanth Namasivayam Um, you take an iPhone today, and most people would call this to be the pinnacle of design.
- ▶ 28:36 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Like it's, it's, if you have to think about all the products, right, right from iPhone to anything else that you can imagine.
- ▶ 1:07:59 Vasanth Namasivayam So an example would be, um, um, the swipe on an iPhone.
Why Traditional Playbooks Are Failing & What Really Works In SAAS? | WizCommerce, Pienomial & Merlin
- ▶ 8:23 unnamed speaker Um, when you install an app on an iPhone, no one has to come and train you, and that should be the same experience.
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.
$200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
- ▶ 1:15:41 Sharad Sharma Or is it possible for us to take a different approach so that Indians are served with AI assistants of India, you know, uh, even though they may be running on Android and, and, and iPhone and, uh, uh, uh,
75 Minutes Of Pure Business Insights From The Man Behind BigBasket, BlueStone & HomeLane
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? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:29 Raja Manickam The performance of the Apple iPhone depends on the hardware, right?
SANJEEV SANYAL On India's East Vs West Divide, Kolkata's Decline, Goa, C-PACE And UPSC | Neon Show
- ▶ 1:04:32 Sanjeev Sanyal I mean, why should Singapore, which is a small island with very expensive, uh, labor get caught into, uh, making iPhones?
$2.5 Billion Tech Empire Built On Acquisitions, Efficiency, & Pure Ambition w/ Founder, Luca Ferrari
- ▶ 17:15 Luca Ferrari The first acquisition, uh, we paid for it about 10,000 dollars, and it was a, uh, an app to personalize your iPhone's keyboard.
Reverse Brain Drain, Reality Of Venture Capital And India’s Next 10 Year Explained By Top Indian VCs
- ▶ 0:47 Amit Somani Fifth largest market for iPhone in the world is India.
- ▶ 18:16 Amit Somani iPhone now, fifth largest market for iPhone in the world is India.
Dear Indians, Watch This Before Moving To America - Varun Mayya’s Brutally Honest Career Advice
- ▶ 1:02:20 Siddhartha Ahluwalia They got a lawsuit in the US Justice Department on monopolizing the smartphone market and abusing the iPhone, iPhone app store for lock-in.
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.
The India Opportunity, Youth’s BIGGEST Problem & Future of Startups | India Quotient VC on Neon Show
- ▶ 3:02 Anand Lunia 30 year old kid to buy an iPhone.
- ▶ 39:42 Anand Lunia So maybe there is, you know, because iPhone is the fastest growing phone in the country and it keeps becoming expensive. 2 times in the scene
Wealth Creation, Life's Purpose, Brotherly Stories - Paras & Pallav on Building Global SaaS Products
- ▶ 38:11 Pallav Nadhani So Apple, like the first iPhone, change the freaking world.
ATHER FOUNDER: "Selling Over 11,000 Scooters Per Month & Creating India's Best EV Brand" | Tarun M
- ▶ 57:02 Tarun Mehta AC Kingdom, which is why they're buying iPhones, which is why they're buying compact SUVs, uh, which is why premiumization of two wheels is a pretty massive phenomenon.
How did Bipin Preet Singh Build a 540 Crore Fintech Product(Mobikwik), with 120M users?
- ▶ 7:01 Bipin Preet Singh There were some versions of smartphones, like a blackberry or a windows windows phone, but there was no Android and iPhone had just launched in us.
Supermorpheus, India’s first community driven fund ft. Sameer Guglani
- ▶ 11:56 Sameer Guglani And, uh, and I have this new iPhone, you know, iPhone one had this car.
- ▶ 47:14 Sameer Guglani Add, let's say, I would say probably Steve Jobs was the only guy building iPhone and there was no competition.
Understanding mental model of Wealth Creation with Paras Chopra, Founder, Wingify |100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 41:56 Paras Chopra This iPhone has a great feature of silent unknown caller.
Naren Gupta on the journey of Nexus Venture Partners
- ▶ 8:30 Naren Gupta Uh, you know, iPhone works in India just as well as it works in the US.
Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital on Technical insights and building a fund for Engineers
- ▶ 38:13 Ashmeet Sidana Let's look at the iPhone. 3 times in the scene
@unacademy founder on Building a 3 Billion Edtech Giant ft. Gaurav Munjal
- ▶ 26:27 Gaurav Munjal For example, I keep talking about when you use an iPhone versus any other phone.
100x Entrepreneur | Episode 15 | Amit Somani, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners
- ▶ 21:07 Amit Somani And this will work both for, often people will say, hey, how will this work for the iPad or the iPhone or an Airbnb? 2 times in the scene