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Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 1:53:11 John Coogan We could see another mobile app boom because Apple's saying, hey, look, maybe we're not the company to build every single AI experience on the iPhone.
- ▶ 2:39:14 unnamed speaker Do you have an iPhone?
Read Write Own - A16Z Partner Chris Dixon on TBPN
- ▶ 7:36 Chris Dixon And some inside out of things that sort of start with established institutions, like AI to some extent is like that, you know, the iPhone was like this.
Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- ▶ 45:51 Chris Dixon It came out of Apple, a very established institution. 2 times in the scene
We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts
- ▶ 51:22 John Coogan Whenever I hear rare earths, I hear iPhones, and I hear electric cars, and 5 times in the scene
Building the World’s Smallest Fusion Reactor | Robin Langtry on TBPN
- ▶ 22:31 John Coogan Why speech to text is still bad on my iPhone?
Why Hallucination Is Good For AI Voice Agents | Russell D'Sa on TBPN
- ▶ 2:15 John Coogan Why speech to text is still bad on my iPhone?
What Great Founders Really Do | David Senra on TBPN
- ▶ 29:11 David Senra Um, just how disorienting, like, the success, the outside success of the iPhone was, because I think it's one of the first episodes I did on Steve Jobs, and I've done, like, 10 or 15 or something, and they made the point that, like, Apple… 3 times in the scene
Building GPUs Is Easier Than You Think | Aaron Ginn on TBPN
- ▶ 5:38 Aaron Ginn Like, like, the reason why iPhones are built there is because it's so technically complex to build an iPhone. 2 times in the scene
Why the Moon Matters More Than Ever | John Gedmark on TBPN
- ▶ 13:43 unnamed speaker Just like, you know, I have a Verizon plan on my, on my iPhone.
Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
- ▶ 1:23 John Coogan Is there any hope that, um, there will be a more open ecosystem on the iPhone? 2 times in the scene
Cluely: the AI App to Cheat On Everything - Roy Lee
How Watch Brands Are Responding to Tariffs | Quaid Walker on TBPN April 10th
- ▶ 20:02 unnamed speaker It's, it, it has all the drama of like, oh, speculation about the next iPhone with the fake renders, except the iPhone hasn't changed at all. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:09 unnamed speaker And so no one really cares anymore, but it's like within, in the watch world, it's like, we're going from iPhone three GS to iPhone four, like every single year.
- ▶ 20:09 unnamed speaker And so no one really cares anymore, but it's like within, in the watch world, it's like, we're going from iPhone three GS to iPhone four, like every single year.
GOOGLE'S “Rest and Vest” Strategy Is REAL | Sheel Mohnot on TBPN April 8th
- ▶ 4:01 Sheel Mohnot I think that's bullshit because, like, you have Lutnik saying, like, we need millions of Americans screwing in tiny iPhones or whatever.
What the New TARIFFS Mean for Tech | Logan Bartlett on TBPN April 7th
- ▶ 27:32 Logan Bartlett Will we still be able to, um, will we still have our jobs like screwing, doing the screws into the iPhones?
Are AI AGENTS Learning to DREAM? | Shawn Wang on TBPN April 4th
- ▶ 26:17 Shawn 'swyx' Wang And for one, like, I actually tweeted about this recently, uh, when the iPhone, like, I'm much more excited for OpenAI to compete with Apple than with Google. 2 times in the scene
Is AI RUINING How We THINK? | David Perell on TBPN April 4th
- ▶ 8:06 David Perell You know, like I listen to music all the time on my crappy iPhone speakers, because I don't want to get up and walk to the other side of the room and like hook in my USB cord.
Casey Handmer (Terraform) on Turning Sunlight and Air into Fuel
- ▶ 21:10 Casey Handmer Probably that's not going to happen, but if you can produce a product like an iPhone, where, when the new one comes out, hundreds of millions, hundreds of millions of people worldwide feel actively burdened by a thousand dollars of cash in…
Dwarkesh Patel (Dwarkesh Podcast) on The Scaling Hypothesis, AI and China
- ▶ 4:45 Dwarkesh Patel I think the thing that's underrated is we humans have this global hive mind where the reason we can make iPhones and we can make, uh, buildings and whatever is not just intelligence and also not just agency.
- ▶ 14:48 unnamed speaker Weirdly fascinating is I would, I, uh, for some reason, I don't know if it was the iPhone camera at that time, but I found it very difficult to get high quality images because it was so polluted that like something about like your own eyes… 2 times in the scene
Cristóbal Valenzuela (Runway) Talks About The Future of Media and Hollywood
Kian Sadeghi on 23andMe’s Collapse and the Rise of Nucleus Genomics.
- ▶ 0:29 Kian Sadeghi We stand on the shoulders of giants, all companies do, you know, you go from Blockbuster to Netflix, you go from, you know, Blackberry to the iPhone, you go from MySpace to Facebook, and now you're going from 23 and Me to Nucleus Genomics,…
Sean Frank talks about Meta monetizing WhatsApp, Ridge Wallet, and the downfall of Solo Brands.
- ▶ 12:27 unnamed speaker AI telemarketers, like they have your phone number, so you pick up your iPhone, it's just ringing, and it's just an ad on the phone.
The GREAT VC AI DEBATE between Slow Ventures and Greylock Partners.
- ▶ 25:24 unnamed speaker Like Uber, it was hard to predict when the iPhone dropped.
Logan Bartlett talks about the history of VC, current sentiment, and are we back to 2021?
- ▶ 25:48 Logan Bartlett Equity value that was created by the mobile iPhone or whatever, like those were the ones that really through the app store and the actual phones, they captured a lot of it.
Garry Tan talks the state of YC, the impact of AI, and the dawn of innovation.
The END of LUXURY GOODS? (Trump’s Tariffs)
- ▶ 9:14 John Coogan I mean, so it tracked with iPhone sales perfectly, right? 4 times in the scene
How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)
- ▶ 1:01:13 John Coogan It's as shocked as the rest of the world that AI had gone mainstream and upset that he wasn't a part of it.
Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman Continues (WHO’S WINNING?)
- ▶ 5:27 unnamed speaker It pales in comparison to like Steve jobs was not under the same level of pressure when he was launching the iPhone, uh, even Zuck.
Is APPLE Headed Downhill? (Investor Breakdown)
- ▶ 0:52 John Coogan So the Wall Street Journal reported Apple's iPhone sales 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:41 John Coogan Um, Apple's newly appointed chief financial officer, Kevin Peric, uh, Peric, uh, said that the company saw better iPhone 16 sales in markets
- ▶ 2:36 Jordi Hays So to be coming in here and saying iPhone sales are declining because we're not properly summarizing, uh, people's tax is, um, is, uh, is crazy. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:12 John Coogan This was also a beat and iPhone revenues were down at 69 instead of 71. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:42 John Coogan The iPhone six took China by storm, but Apple, and Apple built up a large user base, but it never really
- ▶ 16:59 Jordi Hays Um, but, uh, but anyways, I think they're, you know, I would like, uh, you know, the, the timing of all of this iPhone sales peaking and actually dropping. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:35 Jordi Hays The areas in which the, the iPhone is pretty perfect, right? 2 times in the scene
The FULL HISTORY of Temu (Why it's EXPLODING!)
- ▶ 24:27 unnamed speaker We make iPhones for Apple. 2 times in the scene
BREAKING: DOGE Just Added a GAME CHANGER
- ▶ 31:47 John Coogan I'm pretty sure Greg, uh, George Hotz, the, uh, the, the hacker who broke the PS three, the original iPhone, uh, uh, jail broke the iPhone and eventually went on to develop comma AI and a bunch of other cool stuff, but, um, fantastic… 2 times in the scene
The Future of Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 20:02 unnamed speaker And so you can imagine, you know, the old version of auto complete on the iPhone.
What Open AI Got WRONG
- ▶ 17:11 unnamed speaker That to the fact that Apple can't make an iPhone in the US.
DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
- ▶ 20:48 Jordi Hays You basically buy an iPhone. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:53:00 John Coogan So I remember when the iPhones were getting updated, uh, and they would add like the processing power was so significant that they went from the iPhone, which like you could barely use the internet with, cause it didn't even have three G… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:53:00 John Coogan So I remember when the iPhones were getting updated, uh, and they would add like the processing power was so significant that they went from the iPhone, which like you could barely use the internet with, cause it didn't even have three G…
- ▶ 1:53:18 John Coogan And at this time, if you were hanging out with a group of bros, you'd be talking about like, you know, something and some random factoid would come up in the debate and you'd be like, no man, like, uh, the, like the Vietnam war happened in… 2 times in the scene
DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
- ▶ 14:34 John Coogan Most future consumer LLM usage will go through existing platforms, Google, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, iPhone, Android.
DJI Suspicions, Stargate Turmoil, OpenAI Operator, F40 for the Mind
- ▶ 7:17 John Coogan And I think, I think the, like everyone knows like, oh, iPhones are made there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:55 John Coogan For smooth cinematic shots like this one on an iPhone, highly recommend to anyone trying to up their Insta game. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:00:18 unnamed speaker And so, the iPhone is the greatest data collection product, photo, video, text, voice, everything. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:02:44 unnamed speaker You think about if Apple was in founder mode and Steve was seeing, hey, we're going to hit this point with software where it becomes, we're going to hit a point with hardware where the difference between the iPhone X and the iPhone X is…
- ▶ 2:06:58 John Coogan I need to upgrade on desktop because to the point about Apple, I can't upgrade on, on iPhone.
- ▶ 2:32:38 John Coogan Grayscale on the iPhone.
Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
- ▶ 58:53 John Coogan Dwarkesh Patel chimes in, and he says, uh, Curtis Yarvin is mistaken when he says that Apple can produce iPhones because it's a monarchy. 2 times in the scene
The END of TikTok?
- ▶ 30:32 John Coogan So one of the first ones was, um, there's an API on the iPhone for the iTunes store where you can pull in music previews and you don't have to pay any licensing fees for those because they're just 15 second clips.
What's Happening at SONOS (Total Disaster)
- ▶ 0:32 John Coogan Like when you hear like, oh, new iPhones coming out, like he's the guy you go to at Bloomberg.
- ▶ 17:18 John Coogan 22,007, the iPhone arrived. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:30 John Coogan I put, because, uh, so Steve Jobs goes up to John, uh, the founder of Sonos, John McFarlane, founder of Sonos, and basically the Sonos, the control, uh, app to control, like, what music was playing where, once you hook up the amplifier, it… 2 times in the scene
The Businesses Making $$$ off Disaster Relief
- ▶ 40:04 John Coogan It would be, it would be really funny if they were just like, yeah, we launched the new iPhone, has the, has the best like M four chip in it. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:10:53 Jordi Hays He says, uh, according to my iPhone, I walked for approximately 12.6 miles yesterday, mostly because I didn't want to pay for nons or Ubers in the Bay Area.
The US GOVERNMENT Files (Time for the Truth)
- ▶ 1:24:25 Jordi Hays Remember when the iPhone was new, and there were all those app guys, and they just made an app, and somehow pulled in millions of dollars with no effort?
Can This Man Save Los Angeles? (Rick Caruso)
- ▶ 1:04 Jordi Hays I was actually using satellite messaging on the iPhone. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:28 John Coogan If you paint this thing, yeah, you put the wrong phone case on your iPhone, lawsuit.
How to WIN in 2025? (INSANE Predictions List)
- ▶ 20:25 John Coogan That's nice, but Apple still has, like, so many moats there with the AirPods and the watch and the phone.
- ▶ 44:50 John Coogan They will be the iPhone.
The END of Ski Season? (E26)
- ▶ 1:10:53 John Coogan And one of the things that they've added is like the iPhone.
- ▶ 1:39:28 John Coogan Who's an 18 year old kid with an iPhone and then they can scale up and get a nicer camera, but it's basically just film what happened today, put it on YouTube.
Year of Tech in Review (ep25)
- ▶ 16:48 Jordi Hays That would be such a, um, doing that, like there's almost seemingly some value to Apple in terms of maintaining their market cap to just continuing it, because if they discontinue it, it's such a colossal defeat and sort of like verifiable… 2 times in the scene
Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- ▶ 1:43:55 John Coogan He, he was the first guy to jailbreak the iPhone.
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 1:28:43 Jordi Hays Uh, business cards are, it's funny because the iPhone rolled out the feature of tapping and it feels so just like, you know, it's somewhat useful, but I've also found that it's functionally has some, uh, functionally has like a bunch of…
- ▶ 1:41:42 John Coogan Like when this was written, the iPhone didn't exist.
- ▶ 2:08:39 Jordi Hays Like Steve Jobs didn't plan to build the iPhone, right?
Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- ▶ 45:11 John Coogan And, and, and it's, it's, it's fascinating because the, the person that designed this is clearly now thinking like, okay, I need to disrupt the iPhone.
- ▶ 1:55:15 Jordi Hays It's not nearly as addictive as the, as the average iPhone game.
How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- ▶ 2:08:30 John Coogan TK says, someone is, is down astronomically bad on the terminal, and so on Bloomberg, you can, you can list kind of anything, obviously, like, stocks and bonds are the most popular, but people bit list, like, planes and boats all the time,…
Election Betting Gone WRONG (ep15)
- ▶ 1:15:52 unnamed speaker They release like a new, like USB, USB, go back into the dentist and you got to go in there.
FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14)
- ▶ 1:53:05 Jordi Hays Do you remember early iPhone days when you could, there was like apps that would get like millions of dollars in sales that were like drinking a beer.
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars Fast (ep13)
- ▶ 35:28 John Coogan And this is why they're kicking our ass on, on, you know, iPhone and electronics manufacturing.
- ▶ 2:01:25 John Coogan It's the, it's the iPhone.
Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- ▶ 2:32:45 Jordi Hays The iPhone has been that for the entire Mac ecosystem, right?
What is the TRUMP BUBBLE? (ep11)
- ▶ 1:01:07 John Coogan Like, being a user of big tech products, like, when you're using Facebook, or when you're using an iPhone, it feels like you have divorced parents, and it feels like Apple is actively in a fight with Meta.
Fact-Checking The Information (ep10)
- ▶ 1:13:04 Jordi Hays The real question is, where are we at with the iPhone? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42:27 John Coogan And if you think about, you know, you're in the, you're in the theater of war in World War II, like, they didn't have iPhones at the time, like, uh, literally having a friend who could play piano and entertain you was probably what got you…
Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- ▶ 28:40 John Coogan iPhone and Calvin and Hobbes. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:41:50 John Coogan Like, it's not like we release a new iPhone every year.
- ▶ 2:23:42 unnamed speaker We, we have a policy where if we employees need to, you know, send us a screen share screen, uh, screenshot of their screen time on their iPhone.
The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- ▶ 2:07:14 Jordi Hays That person running the company, yes, he may have, like, used a really old generation iPhone and, like, not checked his email that often and used a fax machine or whatever, but if he was, like, effectively the, the mayor of the town and…
Elon's Big Week (ep4)
- ▶ 21:03 unnamed speaker Yeah, I mean, I, I think back to, like, Steve Jobs announcing the iPhone, like, I'm pretty sure there was a slide in that deck that had pictures of all the other best-in-class business phones at the time, and they all had keyboards, and he…
- ▶ 50:33 unnamed speaker So they're reintroducing the iPhone, six S SE, 1112, 13, mini, 14, refurbished, and they're also selling, um, what looks like an old Sony HD Handycam, camcorder. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:57 unnamed speaker It's rarer than your, than your, you know, first generation iPhone that's still in the box.
The "Switzerland of AI" is Crazy (ep3)
- ▶ 11:55 Jordi Hays The iPhone and cell phones in general, there's now, like, real-time, relatively high-quality video footage.
- ▶ 17:39 Jordi Hays There's always like, like I'd love to see a Hindenburg research report on Apple, like intentionally degrading iPhones in order to drive sales velocity, right?
- ▶ 59:13 John Coogan You use the same iPhone as a billionaire on the same network. 3 times in the scene
Zuck Just Killed the Apple Vision Pro (ep2)
- ▶ 24:07 John Coogan Because it's like the, the, the Apple phone is like trying to kill this as hard as possible. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:41 Jordi Hays But, um, basically, last time I checked deep in the Apple iPhone terms of service, there's stuff that literally says, like, don't hold this device, like, up to your head.
- ▶ 43:42 John Coogan Like, the guy reviews iPhones and Android phones.
Venture Capital Just Changed Forever (ep1)
- ▶ 13:19 unnamed speaker Yeah, but, but it's, it's when you get down to, like, the really important, like, iPhone chips and stuff that's in the, uh, yeah.
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