iPhone, every mention
30 scenes (2018), the whole family · ← back to iPhone
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where iPhone comes up
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.