iPhone
includes iPhone 7, iPhone X, iPhone XS, iPhone 5, iPhone App Store, iPhone Seven
4 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 5, 2018 by Tom Sparks · said 120 times in 51 episodes since 2013 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Sam Altman (24), Craig Cannon (15), Michael Seibel (9), David Lieb (7), Brian Donohue (6), Leah Culver (5), Garry Tan (5), Diana Hu (4)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 9 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator
- The Powerful Alternative To Fine-Tuning · Y Combinator
- Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · Y Combinator
- Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" · Y Combinator
- Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
- OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear · Y Combinator
- Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2024 15 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just 2 Years · Y Combinator
- How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup Into Google Photos | Backstory · Y Combinator
- Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders · Y Combinator
- How To Build The Future: Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- How To Find A Co-Founder | Startup School · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
2019 14 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Marques Brownlee on Building an Audience and Other Advice for Creators · Y Combinator
- Diana Hu on Augmented Reality and Building a Startup in a New Market · Y Combinator
- Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- Laks Srini on Making Homeownership in Reach with ZeroDown · Y Combinator
- Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
- Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 53 mentions in 18 episodes 3 per episode
- Michael Seibel - Building Product · Y Combinator
- Sam Altman - How to Succeed with a Startup · Y Combinator
- Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator
- Uncut Interview with Sam Altman on Masters of Scale [Audio] · Y Combinator
- David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator
- Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
- Simon Benjamin on Architectures for Quantum Computing · Y Combinator
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 20 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- Office Hours with Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
- Microbes, Robots, and Ambition - Robin Sloan on His Novel Sourdough · Y Combinator
- Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
- Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett on Live Video's Struggle for Interestingness · Y Combinator
- Don't Start a Blog, Start a Cult - Mr. Money Mustache · Y Combinator
- Ex Machina's Scientific Advisor - Murray Shanahan · Y Combinator
- Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2017 →
Everything said about iPhone, oldest first
Jan 5, 2018 neutral
Feb 23, 2018 bearish
Altman: VR in 2018 Is in the Palm Pilot Era, Not iPhone
“Doesn't mean that VR will not be big someday, but this is, you know, I don't think you can make a high conviction bet on starting a VR company today, at least that the, or at least that the TAM will be huge. It still feels like we're at the Palm Pilot, not the…”
Sep 5, 2018
Seibel: Steve Jobs released a 'shitty MVP' iPhone and iterated every year
“Real Steve Jobs released a shitty MVP that was revolutionary, but still fairly shitty, and every year iterated it. Until you have the thing in your pocket right now, which is pretty damn good. Real Steve Jobs iterates and talks to customers. Fake Steve Jobs ju…”
Aug 15, 2019 negative
Top products like the iPhone often have bad Net Promoter Scores
“Well, you can just Google the best products and best companies in the world. They all have bad net promoter score. Like the iPhone, Apple, all of them have bad net promoter scores. Like it doesn't necessarily correlate with good products. Correlates with perce…”