cloud

also referred to as: the cloud

6 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 5, 2021 by Benedict Evans · across every show →

Everything said about cloud, oldest first

Jul 5, 2021 bearish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Evans: No large company will build its own data center anymore
“But clearly like no one is building their own data center. No big company is going to say, right, we're going to have our own data center now and Everyone, you know, the next generation is clearly the cloud.”
Benedict Evans Jul 5, 2021 ▶ 2:39 'Digital transformation' - beyond the silly slogan
Jul 5, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Evans: Only about 25% of enterprise workflows run in the cloud
“Only about a quarter of enterprise workflows are actually in the cloud if you look at sort of market data.”
Benedict Evans Jul 5, 2021 ▶ 2:31 'Digital transformation' - beyond the silly slogan
Dec 8, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Evans: AI will become invisible background infrastructure within five years
“It just, like, it just disappears. You don't think about it anymore. You know, when's the last time you did autocorrect? You know, you don't, you just, it just happens. When's the last time you used the cloud? Like it just happens. And so that's sort of the ba…”
Benedict Evans Dec 8, 2024 ▶ 41:34 Ai eats the world
Feb 23, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Evans: Cloud accounts for only a third of enterprise workflows
“It's still only sort of a third of enterprise workflows. So it takes a long time to re-platform.”
Benedict Evans Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 10:46 AI and SaaS
Feb 23, 2026 bearish
Insight
Benedict Evans: SaaS that merely wraps SQL with custom branding is doomed
“If you've got a piece of software, all you're really doing is wrapping up SQL and putting a car logo on it instead of a bike logo on it so that it's car software instead of bike software, then yeah, you're screwed. That's what happened with cloud too.”
Benedict Evans Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 31:10 AI and SaaS
Feb 28, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Evans: AI model infrastructure likely settles into 3 to 6 company oligopoly
“So it seems quite likely that all of that will settle out at some point with some kind of oligopoly, where like the laws of gravity and the laws of financial gravity kick in, and while this is the amount of money that the revenue that you can get, and this is …”
Benedict Evans Feb 28, 2026 ▶ 3:47 The end of the network effect
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