Another Podcast
If you're looking for another over-scripted and edited podcast, this is not it. But if you want to listen to honest and unfiltered discussions about the latest in tech and its impact on society, welcome, you have come to the right place.
This is Another Podcast where two friends and colleagues discuss their overlapping experiences and perspectives on what happens in technology. We might know some of the same things, yet we also have different backgrounds and expertise, or at least, we ask different questions.
Benedict Evans has worked in equity research, strategy and venture capital and owns lots of old phones; Toni Cowan-Brown works at the intersection of tech, policy and politics.
Latest episodes
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Dec 11, 2022 • 39min
No Soup for You! Regulating tech M&A
Within and Activision, but also PA Semi and Android - how do we think about big tech buying stuff, and why is it hard for regulators?
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Dec 5, 2022 • 41min
ChatGPT and the Imagenet Moment
When machine learning started really working, back in 2012-13-14, the demos were amazing, but it wasn't immediately obvious how universal the applications would be. The same with Generative AI now - now - the demos are cool, but what will they mean? How will this generalise to change search or law firms?
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Nov 29, 2022 • 30min
All the other things happening in tech part 1.
What does Anker have to do with Mr Beast, Amazon ads or Aesop? A chat about unbundling ecommerce and building brands in a world of infinite media.
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Nov 18, 2022 • 31min
The FTX face-palm
What can we say about a ‘crypto’ crash if we’re not crypto people, nor Wall Street people? How much does it matter?
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Oct 31, 2022 • 32min
How many metaverses?
Every now and then, big company CEOs all read the same tech trends piece and send the same email - "what's our strategy for this?!" And in 2022, there were a lot of "metaverse?!" emails. But what does 'metaverse' mean, can you have a strategy for it, and do you even need to care? Probably not.
6 snips
Oct 19, 2022 • 36min
Wondering about generative AI
Generative AI looks like second wave of ML hat might be as big a deal as the Imagenet wave from 2013 or so. What questions can we ask?
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Sep 19, 2022 • 37min
Figma, unbundling and $20bn of antitrust
What does Adobe's purchase of Figma tell us about the ways that software is changing, and the kinds of tools that people build and use? And, how long until the antitrust lawsuit arrives?
Sep 5, 2022 • 30min
TV after software
‘Software eats the world’, and now it’s eating TV, but then what? Pretty soon software seems to stop mattering, and all the questions become TV questions, fashion questions, or music questions, while tech moves on to something else. Follow Benedict on TwitterFollow Toni on Twitter
Aug 23, 2022 • 31min
A new wave of company creation
Adam Neumann's latest venture shines a light on some of the interesting questions that arise, such as: What is this, what could it be, and can it work? Can this person make it work? As well as, is this the kind of deal we should be doing? Do we understand this?Follow Benedict on TwitterFollow Toni on Twitter
Aug 15, 2022 • 26min
Lighting and tech diffusion
What does a light on a restaurant table say about the failure of smart home startups? Or Shein?Follow Benedict on TwitterFollow Toni on Twitter
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