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A new wave of company creation
- ▶ 13:31 Benedict Evans I've read that Andreessen Horowitz bought stocks in Square, which is now in, which is now called Block.
When the point of leverage changes
- ▶ 31:09 Benedict Evans Certainly they will have to open up NFC, they will have to open up Apple Pay, so you'll have to be able to basically substitute Apple Pay with Stripe Pay or Square Pay. 2 times in the scene
Shein, TikTok and Netflix - thinking about limits
- ▶ 2:24 Benedict Evans So how do we think about the intersection of Square, which is now called Block, and Stripe, and, um, Web Three, and Google, and Amazon, and online advertising, and all the different companies that are kind of climbing that mountain from…
Apple's metronome
- ▶ 13:02 Benedict Evans Square would really like to be able to access the NFC chip, but only Apple Pay can do that. 3 times in the scene