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Insight
Kamath: AI founders must use open source to avoid platform lock-in
“If these large model companies are going to cannibalize the end product, if you build on top of them, I think for a young entrepreneur, it's important not to be short-sighted and kind of like diversify and hedge what they build on top of not, it's not a, it's …”
Nikhil Kamath Mar 11, 2026 ▶ 44:28 The $11B Bet That Voice Will Replace Everything | Mati Staniszewski x Nikhil Kamath | WTF Online · Nikhil Kamath
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bonatsos: The iPhone won't exist in its current form for future teens
“By the time my kid is going to be a teenager, the iPhone won't really exist in its current shape and form.”
Niko Bonatsos Aug 29, 2025 ▶ 54:46 Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath
Opinion
Pei: Steve Jobs' Apple inspired tech careers better than Tim Cook's
“Tim Cook has done a great job on the share shareholder value creation side, but when it just comes to inspiring a young guy or a young person to take a career in tech, I think the old Apple was Way better at that.”
Carl Pei Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 4:23 Ep #23 | WTF are Consumer Electronics? | Nikhil ft. Carl Pei, Rahul Sharma & Amit Khatri · Nikhil Kamath
Opinion
Gates: Steve Jobs succeeded at Apple because he was great at picking engineers
“He was not an engineer and I'm not a design person. I wish I was a design person, and I don't know if he wished he was an engineer. He was good at picking engineers, and so Apple you know, really distinguished itself, but it wasn't an act. he was a natural.”
Bill Gates Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 13:59 Bill Gates x Nikhil Kamath Part 2 | People by WTF | Ep.8 · Nikhil Kamath
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Nithin Kamath: Apple and Samsung will be top health data owners
“The thing, I think the biggest owners of data, health data will be Apple and Samsung because of watch.”
Nithin Kamath Feb 2, 2025 ▶ 2:07:51 Ep #21 | WTF is Longevity? | Nikhil ft. Nithin Kamath, Bryan Johnson, Prashanth, Jitendra & Seema · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kim: Apple's privacy policies are killing ad-driven hyper-casual game monetization
“The summary is you can't do targeting anymore because of Apple's Privacy policies. And so the ability for the hyper-casual games that are largely driven off of the ad-driven model to then make money off of those ads through targeting is going away. And Apple j…”
Joseph Kim Apr 21, 2024 ▶ 1:22:05 Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath
Opinion
Tanmay Bhat: Meta must master hardware via Oculus to secure next 25 years
“Apple's biggest advantage is they have a hardware device. Zuck just needs to make, if he has to ensure the next 20, 20, 20, 25 years, he needs to get hardware right and his big bet is Oculus or the metaverse, which is it's going to be a thing where we all sit …”
Tanmay Bhat Mar 12, 2023 ▶ 20:58 #1 WTF is Metaverse? WTF is with Nikhil Kamath ft. Tanmay Bhat, Umang Bedi & Aprameya Radhakrishna · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Supported
Pei: Apple gets TSMC's latest semiconductor batches before all competitors
“Actually, what we talked about before, they get the TSMC latest. Yeah, they get the first batch before everybody else. They get the latest technology from TSMC for Apple Silicon.”
Carl Pei Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 1:01:23 Ep #23 | WTF are Consumer Electronics? | Nikhil ft. Carl Pei, Rahul Sharma & Amit Khatri · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Supported
Gates: Microsoft lost the mobile OS race and Android won non-Apple phones
“We competed with Google over the mobile phone operating system, and we fell behind, and, you know, today, nobody remembers there was a Windows Mobile thing. It's just Android. For non-Apple phones, it's basically all Android.”
Bill Gates Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 32:35 Bill Gates x Nikhil Kamath Part 2 | People by WTF | Ep.8 · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Supported
Pei: Apple Makes $100 Annually Per US iPhone User on Non-Hardware Services
“I don't know the number for India, but like in the US, Apple makes a hundred dollars per year on each iPhone user, just on non-hardware stuff.”
Carl Pei Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 1:53:19 Ep #23 | WTF are Consumer Electronics? | Nikhil ft. Carl Pei, Rahul Sharma & Amit Khatri · Nikhil Kamath
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