My Spin on the iPhone Launch

It was the first day of school and I'm enrolled in a called "Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital". What's particularly cool about the class is that it's taught by Peter Wendell (Founder of Sierra Ventures), Andy Rachleff (founder of Benchmark Capital) and Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google). In class today, Peter apologized for Eric's absence, saying that Eric unfortunately had to miss class as he was Moscone Center making an announcement with Steve Jobs. An hour into the class, my neighbor, Meagan, got a message on her blackberry, and passed me a note that Steve had brought Eric on stage to help announce the iPhone. For a kid from Canada, it was a pretty cool Silicon Valley moment.

Comments

[Monica]

I like the iphone from the first sight. Actually it is really a good design and especially most people can afford it.
Matt, I am interested to know, who and how does he change the life of Apple.
It will be great, if you can do a interview on this topic.

[kareem]

umm, dude? having a class taught by those three is a pretty damn cool silicon valley moment for a kid from canada!

[New Media Blogger]

I just wrote an article on my Blog about the iPhone - Long story short, I think Apple may have actually shot itself in the foot.

http://www.newmediablogger.com/2007/01/22/did-an-over-excited-apple-ceo-doom-the-launch-of-the-iphone/

-Ari