Steve Jobs
1 appearance on the record.
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Everything Steve Jobs said on TBPN that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
The other half of the tape: Steve Jobs's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 201 times in 60 episodes on TBPN. 8 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most John Coogan 52Jimmy Iovine 30David Senra 16Eddy Cue 15Jordi Hays 11Marc Andreessen 8Brian Chesky 2Shawn 'swyx' Wang 1
Statements about Steve Jobs, by other people (8)
Cue: Tim Cook and Steve Jobs share an unmatched work ethic
“When people ask me what's the difference between Tim and Steve, the reality is that's not the right question. The question is what's the same things between Tim and Steve. And you know, their work ethic, they worked harder than anybody. They were completely fo…”
Senra: The dynamic range between average and top performers in tech is 100x to 1,000x
“Steve jobs says that he's like, you can never, ever, ever, ever forget the dynamic range of human beings that most things in life you know, between the average to the best, it's like two to three, two, two times best, three times quality, where he's like, in s…”
Hays: The best founders are often controversial like Jobs and Kalanick
“The best founders are often controversial, right? Steve Jobs, Travis Kalanick, Kalanick.”
Iovine: First Five Conversations With Jobs Were About Lennon and Dylan
“Steve, my first five conversations with Steve Jobs was about John Lennon and Bob Dylan.”
Iovine: Steve Jobs's cross-disciplinary nature remains in Apple's DNA
“Because, what was so great about, what is so great about Apple, because it's still in their DNA, is they had Steve Jobs. He was the ultimate cross-disciplinary human being. That was his, in his DNA, where tech meets liberal arts.”
Eddy Cue: Apple Sold $1M of iMacs on Online Store Launch Day
“And we had sold a million dollars worth of IMAX and we were high fiving each other and going, this is amazing.”
Every mention by year
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2026 95 mentions in 20 episodes 5 per episode
- Jimmy Iovine on AI: “The Great Artists Will Show the World How to Use It”
- FULL INTERVIEW: Apple Exec on How Apple Builds Products That Actually Win
- AI Needs a Steve Jobs, Meta’s Nuclear Powerplants, a16z raises $15B | Diet TBPN
- The Jamie Dimon Apple Card, Greenland Ideas, WB-Paramount, TBPN x Vanity Fair | Diet TBPN
- Apple Sues OpenAI, Experts Sign Another AI Warning Letter, Paramount Threatens CA Exit
- CES’s legacy, reactions to Dwarkesh’s “Capital in the 22nd Century,” and more | Diet TBPN
- Open Source vs. Closed Source, NVIDIA Backs SSI, YC Startup School Fills Stadium | Diet TBPN
- Apple’s New CEO John Ternus, Ferrari’s First EV | Diet TBPN
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 79 mentions in 26 episodes 3 per episode
- What Great Founders Really Do | David Senra on TBPN
- David Senra on Nvidia, Jensen Huang, and Being a Great Founder.
- Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
- DJI Suspicions, Stargate Turmoil, OpenAI Operator, F40 for the Mind
- What's Happening at SONOS (Total Disaster)
- Jeff Bezos’ New AI Startup, Yann LeCun Says LLMs are a Dead End, Thiel Fund Sells NVIDIA | Diet TBPN
- Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
- "I Invest in People" – David Senra Talks Ramp, His Favorite Founders, and the Pursuit of Greatness.
- 18 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 27 mentions in 14 episodes 2 per episode
- Venture Capital Just Changed Forever (ep1)
- You are NOT a Lottery Ticket (Peter Thiel Breakdown)
- Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- Year of Tech in Review (ep25)
- CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| Apple’s iPhone Duo, Meta’s Muse AI Agent, Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Doom | Diet T | Sep 10, 2026 | 1m |