Brussels, every mention
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every year anyone Toni Cowan-Brown 13Benedict Evans 12
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Brussels comes up
A double episode: AI differentiation, and Apple does F1
- ▶ 0:31 Toni Cowan-Brown Um, yeah, and then I'm off and back to Spa, Brussels, well, Belgium, next week.
- ▶ 43:06 Benedict Evans Um, there was a, um, there was a story from a long time ago, also from the world of sports rights, that Kelvin McKenzie, who had edited The Sun and then had a sports radio station in the UK, didn't have the rights to a football match in,… 3 times in the scene
Looking for AI strategies
- ▶ 17:33 Benedict Evans Like, do you think Brussels needs to pass a law to make sure that the company that's helping a big telco reconfigure its billing systems to incorporate a different pricing plan needs to reflect our democratic values?
From SAAS software to Formula 1
- ▶ 2:45 Toni Cowan-Brown It's similar to when I used to work in Brussels and it was obvious that everyone in Brussels was an obvious in some way, shape or form or consultants. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:56 Toni Cowan-Brown Um, and I, that was 2019 and it was interesting because obviously pandemic times, um, and there was this like perfect storm that happened in that I used to live in Brussels, which is an hour away from Spa Francorchamps, which is one of the…
Generative search
- ▶ 21:27 Toni Cowan-Brown Years ago, maybe a little less, I went to an event in Brussels, my, for, for a specific brand, someone took a picture of me, and then they took that picture and slapped it on their campaign in Times Square, and I was getting pictures of…
Three ways to say no
- ▶ 26:13 Toni Cowan-Brown It also, it's far more, um, it also takes that argument away from what we keep hearing, whether it's from Brussels or from Washington, all over these tech CEOs that wield all of this power to be able to say no and yes to things that they…
- ▶ 29:41 Benedict Evans Sorry, Brussels. 2 times in the scene
Metaverse - how to be wrong in the right way
- ▶ 15:20 Benedict Evans You mean, so this is the European Commission in Brussels? 2 times in the scene
Talking about crypto
- ▶ 33:10 Benedict Evans Yeah, I mean, I had coffee with a, with a guy who works in, in, in regulation in Brussels, and, you know, I said,
Regulation - Who will notice?
- ▶ 22:21 Toni Cowan-Brown It's what, um, Annie Bradford coined the Brussels effect, which is that the bigger and more affluent the consumer market, the more likely that exporting companies will have to comply with their standards, which is more or less what's…
The Business of publishing
- ▶ 26:12 Benedict Evans I know you worked in Brussels.
Clubhouse and the endless cycle of social apps
- ▶ 7:57 Toni Cowan-Brown Um, curious if you're ever in Brussels, would you, you know, be willing to finish a course for us at the college of Europe?
Bezos and the Amazon machine
- ▶ 2:35 Toni Cowan-Brown I think we, we have often spoken about this on this podcast of the, the, the types of people who start these companies, um, and how they're fundamentally different and often misunderstood, um, but how they're fundamentally different, for…
The FTC and Facebook
- ▶ 28:20 Benedict Evans They weren't sitting there and going, in 10 years' time, someone in Brussels or Washington is going to say you're a monopoly.
- ▶ 34:03 Benedict Evans I mean, the thing we haven't talked about at all, which I'll just touch on briefly, is that there's been this fight in Brussels in the last couple of weeks, which is that the European privacy law de facto, so there is a set of automated…
F1 - the plane that never takes off
- ▶ 0:45 Toni Cowan-Brown I used to live in Belgium, in Brussels, and we lived close to Spa-Francorchamps, which is one of the big racetracks that they have.
Is Europe a market?
- ▶ 1:38 Toni Cowan-Brown And everyone in Brussels that I said this to came back and went, I think it's about time you came back to Europe.
- ▶ 36:38 Toni Cowan-Brown It's interesting that you say that because I, I see that with, um, just even Brussels, like there are so many, um, organizations such as allied for startups or France digital in France, where it is this sort of ecosystem of, you know,…
- ▶ 40:46 Toni Cowan-Brown Lived in Brussels for most of my life, and, um,