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10 statements across 9 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Benedict Evans · said 92 times in 43 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Benedict Evans (42), Steven Sinofsky (18), Garry Tan (5), Frank Chen (5), Michael Copeland (3), Scott Cooper (2), Eugenia Kuyda (2), Darshan Shankar (2)
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2025 8 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
- Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
- Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- Former Microsoft Executive Explains Where We Are in the AI Cycle w/ Anish Acharya & Steven Sinofsky
- Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 75 mentions in 32 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- a16z Podcast | The Year Mobile Began to Truly Dominate Tech
- a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
- Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- a16z Podcast | A Copernican Update ... In Tech, the Smartphone is the Center
- Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- 24 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Windows, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Benedict Evans: Consumers will converge on owning two main device screens
“You're just going to have this endless proliferation of screens, and people will have two, probably. They'll have one that they put in their pocket and carry everywhere. They will have, they may or may not have a much bigger one that allows them to do more stu…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Stephen Sinofsky: Legacy desktop OSs cannot retroactively add mobile architecture features
“All the things about power management and security and reliability this whole sealed case notion of the phone and the tablet OS's, these modern OS's, these are huge, huge benefits. And there, there's no way of sort of retroactively adding those to the existing…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Evans: Mobile OS platforms integrate services much deeper than PC OSs
“Unlike, say, a web browser on a, either a Windows or a Mac, where the web browser was the platform and the Windows or the Mac computer wasn't really where you were building internet services. Whereas on a smartphone, not only are you building in the web browse…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Evans: Smartphones act as non-neutral internet platforms unlike desktop Windows
“The smartphone itself is kind of, is a platform for the internet in a way that Windows was not. You targeted the browser, you didn't target Windows, but on the smartphone, you target the smartphone operating system, and it's not neutral. Apple and Google chang…”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Srinivasan: VR will replace 2D monitors and create a 3D operating system
“We're probably going to replace a significant percentage of monitors with VR with something to the two-D world, right, and there's going to be a new Windows that's based in the three-D universe, which has totally different GUI metaphors”
Jun 28, 2024 neutral
Andreessen: Microsoft licensed Spyglass Mosaic for a $1 million flat fee
“Spyglass gets this call from Microsoft and so the Microsoft guys call Spyglass, and they're like, yeah, we want to license Spyglass Mosaic so we can build it into Windows, and the Spyglass guys say, you know, yeah, that sounds great, you know, basically how mu…”
Jun 8, 2026 neutral
Jul 3, 2026 negative
Horowitz: Microsoft created cyber theft opportunities by deploying Windows online prematurely
“When it went from vandalism to theft, the vandalism company, Microsoft, is one who created all the theft opportunities By putting windows on the internet when it wasn't ready to be on the internet because it wasn't built for that kind of idea.”