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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where iPhone comes up
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.