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Why Amazon Has No Profits (And Why It Works) — Benedict Evans
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10 min read · 57 saves · From 2014 · (I also did a podcast with Ben Horowitz discussing these themes: see here) Amazon has a tendency to polarize people. On one hand, there…
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Platforms, distribution and audience — Benedict Evans
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6 min read · 73 saves · From 2015 · It's never been easier to write or harder to get read. Thoughts on blogging, distribution, platforms and ad-tech
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Chat bots, conversation and AI as an interface — Benedict Evans
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8 min read · 308 saves · From 2016 · Chat bots tap into two very current preoccupations. On one hand, the hope that they can actually work is a reflection of the ongoing…
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Ways to think about cars — Benedict Evans
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9 min read · 60 saves · From 2015 · Cars are going to change a lot in the next few decades. Electricity on one hand and software on the other change what a…
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The VR idea maze — Benedict Evans
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6 min read · 34 saves · From 2016 · Someone said recently, only slightly flippantly, that you can divide the world into people who think VR is part of the future and people…
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Voice and the uncanny valley of AI
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7 min read · 103 saves · From 2017 · WHAT DO WE WANT? Natural language processing! WHEN DO WE WANT IT? Sorry, when do we want what? — Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) January 22,…
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Search, discovery and marketing — Benedict Evans
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9 min read · 69 saves · From 2015 · "However vast any person’s basic reading may be, there still remain an enormous number of fundamental works that he has not read" Italo…
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TV, mobile and the living room — Benedict Evans
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5 min read · 36 saves · From 2015 · The tech industry spent decades trying to get to the TV, but now that it's finally happening, it turns out not to matter much.
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The end of a mobile wave — Benedict Evans
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7 min read · 60 saves · From 2016 · The mobile phone industry has had two waves - first voice and SMS and then the smartphone. The voice wave has taken it from…
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What does Google need on mobile? — Benedict Evans
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6 min read · 30 saves · From 2015 · I generally look at Google as a vast machine learning engine that’s been stuffed with data for a decade and a half. Everything that…
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Voice and the uncanny valley of AI
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7 min read · 103 saves · From 2017 · WHAT DO WE WANT? Natural language processing! WHEN DO WE WANT IT? Sorry, when do we want what? — Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) January 22,…
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Forget about the mobile internet — Benedict Evans
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4 min read · 125 saves · From 2015 · For as long as the idea of the 'mobile internet' has been around, we've thought of it as a cut-down subset of the 'real'…
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Living in different worlds — Benedict Evans
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4 min read · 53 saves · From 2015 · What does it mean when you don't understand technology?
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Ways to think about market size. — Benedict Evans
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7 min read · 51 saves · From 2015 · When you try to work out the market potential for something fundamentally new, you’re actually trying to resolve two, linked problems. * First, you…
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Lists are the new search
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4 min read · 187 saves · From 2016 · All curation grows until it requires search, and all search grows until it requires curation. So how does curation scale to the internet? Does…
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Presentation: Mobile is eating the world
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34 saves · From 2016 · Updated for spring 2016: why mobile matters, where it is and how it changes everything from cars to productivity to search. For more detailed…
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Learning machine learning — Benedict Evans
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2 min read · 20 saves · From 2016 · In August 2001, I was a telecoms analyst visiting investors in Tokyo. In one of these meetings, a portfolio manager at a Very Large…
