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Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:59 Blake Scholl And the first supersonic air-to-air livestream, filmed on an iPhone, streamed via Starlink, and of course, most importantly, legalizing supersonic flight in the U.S.
Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:25 Sam Altman There was then another big version when the iPhone app store launched.
Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator
Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
The Powerful Alternative To Fine-Tuning · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:09 Ian Fisher Last summer, I took a weekend and used, um, GPT-V to help me build an iPhone app.
- ▶ 18:51 Ian Fisher Um, uh, even, even for me, you know, last summer I took a weekend and used, um, GPT-V to help me build an iPhone app.
OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:26 Peter Steinberger Do you think one human being could make an iPhone or one human being could go to space?
Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:27 Tom Feldman I think if you have something that can go up and come back to the place where you want it to go, when you want it to go, I think it is like the iPhone app store moment.
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:49 Aaron Levie We started the company in 2005, and this was a, this was a time where you have to kind of, you know, literally go back 20 years and think about a world where the internet was much slower, browsers were way worse, we didn't have the iPhone,…
Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
- ▶ 36:28 Michael Truell The thing there was getting the iPod moment right and then the iPhone moment right. 2 times in the scene
How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup Into Google Photos | Backstory · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:15 David Lieb And the iPhone had just come out, and we were all trying to get each other's phone numbers so we could text each other to, like, meet up, and one day I typed in, like, 10 people's phone numbers and asked them to spell their last name, and…
- ▶ 10:13 David Lieb But as we got thinking about it, we realized, you know, the, the Photos app on the iPhone isn't that good. 3 times in the scene
Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:59 David Lieb A decade, um, and Apple just copied it, um, so 14 years later, now you can hold your two iPhones together, and people literally call it bumping.
- ▶ 22:00 David Lieb Yeah, when you're saying that, I'm thinking of Steve Jobs in building the iPhone and making decisions on what they were going to do in the iPhone and what things they were explicitly not going to do. 2 times in the scene
How To Build The Future: Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 29:28 Sam Altman It was, like, you know, still three years or two years before the iPhone. 2 times in the scene
How To Find A Co-Founder | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:54 Harj Taggar It doesn't matter if they can only program in a certain language or if they've only got experience building iPhone applications versus web applications.
How Nothing Founder Carl Pei Built A Multi-Million Dollar Smartphone Brand In Just 2 Years · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:51 Carl Pei I think I was probably one of the first people in Sweden to have the iPod, and, uh, I was definitely the first among my friends to get the iPhone, and back then the iPhone was a U.S. exclusive with AT&T, and I had to get a U.S. friend to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11 Garry Tan How old were you when you first held the iPhone one? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:33 Carl Pei And they make iPhones as well, so they're very happy with their Apple relationship, and there was a period of time where they took on a lot of risk with working with startups, but when it came our turn, that wasn't the case anymore.
AI and the Future of Law: The 10 Year "Overnight" Success Story · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:06 Jake Heller And I would then like go on my iPhone and look for like takeout Thai food or something, and that was insanely easy.
Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator
How To Change The World? Get The Small Things Right – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:42 Dalton Caldwell We're an iPhone app. 2 times in the scene
Laks Srini on Making Homeownership in Reach with ZeroDown · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:30 Laks Srini If I gave you an iPhone and said, like, you can't install any software in this, you can't, like, put a cover on it, like, then it's not your phone.
Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
- ▶ 54:51 Matt Cutts You know, with the latest version of the iPhone and with the latest version of Android, like, the pendulum's starting to swing the other way, like digital well-being, those sort of features, I, I think that's super cool.
Diana Hu on Augmented Reality and Building a Startup in a New Market · Y Combinator
Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:57 Gustaf Alströmer Like the iPhone, Apple, all of them have bad net promoter scores.
Marques Brownlee on Building an Audience and Other Advice for Creators · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:41 Craig Cannon Like, just that actual feel, like when you sit, when you touch an iPhone for the first time.
- ▶ 8:15 Craig Cannon You're like, oh man, you know, iPhone X or whatever, like, this is awesome.
- ▶ 9:29 Craig Cannon I mean, I know a lot of people are holding on to, you know, iPhone basically five form factor.
- ▶ 9:41 Marques Brownlee To peak smartphone, because your iPhone, if you buy an iPhone XS now, that phone's probably gonna be good for, like, four years.
- ▶ 9:41 Marques Brownlee To peak smartphone, because your iPhone, if you buy an iPhone XS now, that phone's probably gonna be good for, like, four years.
- ▶ 11:09 Craig Cannon Like, I remember people wouldn't shut up about their iPhones when they got them, and the same thing is true for 2 times in the scene
Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 30:14 Ryan Hoover This is also really big, you know, focusing entirely just on technology, because who doesn't have an iPhone, first off, or like an Android phone?
- ▶ 36:31 Ryan Hoover And it could be something like I, I switched from Android to iPhone.
Frank Lantz - Director of NYU's Game Center and Creator of Universal Paperclips · Y Combinator
- ▶ 56:24 Craig Cannon Like the iPhone couldn't have been made in 1930.
Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:08 Brian Donohue The first one was, um, if you remember early iPhone days, the early mobile networks were really slow and it was like impossible to load a website. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:56 Brian Donohue Now, Instant Paper had no Android application, and the iPhone app was three dollars and 99 cents to download.
- ▶ 34:56 Brian Donohue I mean, basically from late 2014 through now, I've been the person doing all the back-end engineering, all the iPhone engineering.
A Conversation on Hard Tech with Eric Migicovsky · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:30 Eric Migicovsky Using iPhones, and then we were stuck with a whole bunch of inventory.
Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
A Conversation with Ooshma Garg - Moderated by Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:30 Ooshma Garg So if you want to change the world or change your industry, you have to do something that is like materially better, like iPhone level better than the market.
David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:22 David Rusenko So it's the same thing with the iPhone. 3 times in the scene
Michael Seibel - Building Product · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:30 Michael Seibel And the other day, he had to figure out how to get, make a phone that millions of people would buy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:30 Michael Seibel And what's funny is that I think oftentimes people look at the iPhone as a perfect example of this, but they look at their iPhone today 7 times in the scene
Ryan Petersen on Building Flexport, a Modern Freight Forwarder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:18 Ryan Petersen I'm like, if only I would have invented the iPhone, I could be rich with the scooter business I had.
- ▶ 17:16 Ryan Petersen And we got Foxconn signed up, makes, makes the iPhone, Cargill signed up like one of the biggest ad companies in the world.
- ▶ 37:59 Ryan Petersen And they're willing to, you know, if you make 600 bucks on an iPhone, I think their margin, I've seen the breakdowns, they make like 400 bucks or something according to that iSupply company.
Sam Altman - How to Succeed with a Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:45 Sam Altman 11 years ago, the market for iPhone apps was zero dollars.
- ▶ 2:35 Sam Altman So an example of a real trend, I already mentioned the iPhone, I'll mention that again. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:56 Sam Altman We'll stick with the iPhone example here.
Jessica Brillhart, Immersive Director, on VR and AR · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:36 Craig Cannon The iPhone game where it's all the puzzles.
Elad Gil Shares Advice from the High Growth Handbook, a Guide to Scaling Startups · Y Combinator
Simon Benjamin on Architectures for Quantum Computing · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:58 Simon Benjamin I could write an app for my iPhone that would simulate a quantum computer that has perhaps 15 qubits pretty easily.
- ▶ 49:04 Simon Benjamin Because otherwise, the thing I like to say is it's a bit like showing an iPhone to a guy from 1965, right?
Helping Landlords Find Tenants – Sean Mitchell of Rezi · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:01:19 Sean Mitchell and I'll just open up notes on my, on my iPhone
Gaming Studio Founders - Patrick Moberg and Holly Liu · Y Combinator
- ▶ 40:43 Craig Cannon Like most people don't care about like how the internet ends up on my iPhone, let alone how my iPhone works.
Cost vs Quality in Edtech – Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:48 Avichal Garg The iPhone kind of worked that way.
- ▶ 52:26 Avichal Garg Like the iPhone or Android or iPad, Chromebook, um, that sort of allow people to interact with information in novel and new and interesting ways.
Sam Altman - Startup Investor School Day 1 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:30 Sam Altman So, when the iPhone came out, um, most of the mobile industry would make fun of it because Apple only sold a million or two million, whatever it was in the first year. 2 times in the scene
Uncut Interview with Sam Altman on Masters of Scale [Audio] · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:14 Sam Altman So one of the things that was obvious when people got iPhones, even though like, you know, there were only a few million of the first iPhones that sold them, there's people that had them use them every day. 4 times in the scene
Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:52 Leah Culver I'm actually, so I have an iPhone and I'm, I have some little paranoia things. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:57 Leah Culver So if I was like panicked, so, so I do, I actually just got the iPhone X.
- ▶ 10:39 Leah Culver The device one's a huge pain in the ass because every time I get a new iPhone, I spend the next like hour switching over all my authenticator keys. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:52 Craig Cannon Faking out the iPhone X.
Microbes, Robots, and Ambition - Robin Sloan on His Novel Sourdough · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:22 Robin Sloan Um, I mean, because I kind of, I admired the iPhone screen, in particular, the, like, lack of, of row of browser tabs across the top, or, like, other windows tiled in the background, you know? 3 times in the scene
Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett on Live Video's Struggle for Interestingness · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:11 Casey Neistat To me, it's reminiscent of like the stories of Steve Jobs's first demo for the iPhone, where if he didn't follow this specific path through the product demo, the entire OS would collapse.
Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
- ▶ 41:14 Ryan Hoover It's just easier than opening my iPhone to like play Rufus's soul or whatever.
- ▶ 45:38 Craig Cannon You can buy a thousand dollar iPhone now.
Don't Start a Blog, Start a Cult - Mr. Money Mustache · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:14 Mr. Money Mustache Um, and that's true with like, whether you're the cult of Star Trek or iPhone or the various religions, they all have these sort of special terminology.
Ex Machina's Scientific Advisor - Murray Shanahan · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:55 Craig Cannon And he also said that, um, um, maybe, maybe accurately that you're the, any iPhone
Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer, YC Partner (formerly Airbnb) & Ed Baker (formerly Uber) · Y Combinator
At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:02 Craig Cannon Yeah, I mean, uh, my, uh, I, I cracked my iPhone, uh, earlier, and, um, was getting it fixed this morning, and the guy had an entire box of assorted iPhone screws from, from literally, like, an iPhone, you know, iPhone one, uh, to an… 4 times in the scene
The Technical Advisor for Silicon Valley on HBO: Ed McManus · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:17 Ed McManus Both were marketplaces for iPhone, so similar to Craigslist for iPhone.
Office Hours with Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:14 Sam Altman And then after the iPhone in 2007, maybe from 2007 to 2011, we had another rise of the mobile first companies. 6 times in the scene
Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:17 Paul Graham They're just like on your iPhone, right, in chronological order.
- ▶ 26:59 Sam Altman Seven, seven, seven full of iPhones than, you know, like one little shipping.