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Steven Sinofsky

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
313 total appearances

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The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

you know, silicon supply chain show.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

And normally you never hear about it.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

Like, in fact, I never went to it even.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

I wanted to, but it actually turns out it was always right around the same time as a big Microsoft sales meeting.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

So I never went.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

But you can think of it as the ecosystem show for everything it takes to build a computing device of any kind.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

Totally wrong, but Jensen in his keynote last night did this incredible slide where he walked up and down the whole length of the stage pointing to partners that he was very excited to be there.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

And I would bet anyone that

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

anyone watching would have no idea who the companies he was pointing at.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

Like these are, some of them, like half of the ones he pointed to as kind of being entertaining were just names of companies in traditional Chinese.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

And so you didn't even, like you don't even know what they are.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

But it's an incredible show.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

It's just wild because it's such inside baseball about components and peripherals and chipsets and assembly lines and it's deals and deals and stuff.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

And every 10 years or so, it jumps into the mainstream, but never like the past 24 hours.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

Just, you never see that.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

And actually it was a lot like, I think it was two years ago, Jensen keynoted CES.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

And I've been to 40 CESs, and I'd never seen one with such a broad media reach.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

Yeah, Jensen's like Taylor Swift of the tech industry.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

So true, yeah.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

It's an incredible level of...