big companies
2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 2, 2021 by Benedict Evans · across every show →
Everything said about big companies, oldest first
Nov 2, 2021 neutral
Evans: Major tech paradigms are no longer built top-down by giant incumbents
“Tech doesn't work like that. It hasn't worked like that since the seventies, maybe the eighties, but the days when like big companies could say, right, we're going to build the future. Like that's not how the future gets built.”
Nov 16, 2025 neutral
Evans: Big companies run 10 to 20 AI pilots without systemic clarity
“Every big company now has had, like, 10 AI presentations. They've had one from Microsoft and Google, they've had the one from their ad agency, they've had the one from Bain or BCG or McKinsey, they maybe had one from OpenAI, they've had stuff from Accenture, a…”