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The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 35:41 Benedict Evans But again, we're in 1997 and I'm trying to predict Uber and Airbnb and
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 47:51 Benedict Evans We also don't have YouTube or Uber. 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Widgetification of Everything
- ▶ 2:22 Benedict Evans Um, Uber can integrate directly into maps, um, and start making suggestions or providing services kind of embedded within those.
a16z Podcast | When Software Eats Cars
- ▶ 0:58 Benedict Evans Well, what brought it to mind is that Apple and Google are getting into the car business, and Tesla is in the car business as a technology company, and Uber is in the car business as well, and obviously we have an investment in Lyft as…
- ▶ 8:39 Benedict Evans Um, but on the other hand, if you order like an Uber black car, you don't decide whether it's going to be a Mercury or a, uh, whether it's going to be a Lincoln or a Cadillac or a Mercedes.
- ▶ 15:09 Benedict Evans There's the hard, there is a hard part in the not hitting things, in actually the, the car itself, but then there is all the kind of the routing and the load balancing and the optimization and the pre-positioning of all the cars, because…
- ▶ 20:35 Benedict Evans For what we know, I mean, Uber may well be working on it. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | A Copernican Update ... In Tech, the Smartphone is the Center
- ▶ 17:57 Benedict Evans It shut down Bing Maps and sold the Bing Maps assets to Uber. 8 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Rise of the Quasi-IPO
- ▶ 25:36 Benedict Evans So when you look at a company like Uber or Lyft, which are not really competing with the taxi market, it's fundamentally changing what it means to own a car, or Airbnb, which is fundamentally changing what it means to be a hotel, again,…
a16z Podcast | Location, Location, Location -- and Mobile
- ▶ 10:03 Benedict Evans And it moves that, you know, in the same way you could say that, you know, for Uber or Lyft, it doesn't actually need GPS.
a16z Podcast | Apple Watch -- Looking for New Things Done in New Ways
- ▶ 5:57 Benedict Evans Yeah, and if you remember when the apps came out, the first way, it took several years for Instagram and Uber and all of those kind of killer things to come out as well. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What the Apple Watch Is -- and Isn't
- ▶ 11:18 Benedict Evans Rather, it is about you lift your wrist, and you tap on Uber, and you press yes, and then you drop your wrist.
a16z Podcast | Selling Tech to Everyone -- Changes Everything
- ▶ 20:04 Benedict Evans And so when you have, you know, when you have mobile everywhere, when you have payments being pulled in, when you look at companies like Airbnb or Uber or Lyft, um, where you're actually building companies using this stuff, but they're not… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple Takes on Payments and Your Wrist
- ▶ 13:57 Benedict Evans So there's a buy with Apple Pay button in your app, and up comes a little panel with a fingerprint scanner and says you're going to pay Uber 35 dollars, and you put your finger on the scanner and it goes through.
a16z Podcast | The Topic That's Lasted the Entire History of Computing -- Bundling and Unbundling
- ▶ 8:55 Benedict Evans Um, and Uber has maps in it, and Lyft have maps in it.
a16z Podcast | The Rise of Full Stack Startups
- ▶ 8:07 Benedict Evans You know, obviously Uber doesn't own the cars. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:25 Benedict Evans Um, so, you know, you could look at it at Airbnb or Uber or, you know, any of these companies and say, well, 10 years ago, um, it would have taken you a hundred million dollars just to get the app out of the door.
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2016
- ▶ 29:00 Benedict Evans Which tends to support Uber and Lyft, as opposed to anyone trying to create their own on-demand fleet again from scratch.
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2015
- ▶ 22:56 Benedict Evans And in the same sense, Airbnb and Uber and Lyft are fundamentally enabled by smartphones. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:34 Benedict Evans And Uber or Lyft would have tried to sell software to taxi companies, and that probably would have worked, and you could have built a business, but it wouldn't be a very good business, and it certainly wouldn't have changed what it means… 2 times in the scene
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2014
- ▶ 11:49 Benedict Evans Now if you look at two of the most interesting companies that are changing, technology companies that are changing the world, Airbnb and the combination of Uber and Lyft, these are companies created by technologists, built on technology,… 2 times in the scene