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Apr 2019
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a16z Podcast: Inside Apple Software Desi...

Andreessen Horowitz
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Join longtime Apple software engineer Ken Kocienda in conversation with a16z Deal and Research operating partner Frank Chen for an insider’s account of how Apple designed software in the golden age of Steve Jobs, spanning products like the first rele... 
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