Federal Trade Commission
also referred to as: ftc
10 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 13, 2020 by Benedict Evans · said 47 times in 8 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 31 mentions in 6 episodes 5 per episode
2020 15 mentions in 1 episode
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Dec 13, 2020 negative
Dec 13, 2020 negative
Evans: FTC knew Instagram was a competitive threat when approving acquisition
“The FTC basically knew everything that they knew, know, that they know now. They knew that these were competitive. They knew that Facebook must see them as competitive threats. Nothing's actually changed, except that the FTC has just changed their mind. And I …”
Jul 25, 2022 negative
Aug 1, 2022 negative
Evans: The idea that Big Tech buys up all startups is nonsense
“And they're actually a very small percentage of all the acquisition, all the startups in the field, or indeed all of the exits, because, you know, I think it was something like 60 or 70 of those 400 were more than fifty million dollars, which is the point that…”
Aug 1, 2022 negative
Evans: Conduct regulation is more sustainable than guessing on startup acquisitions
“I would suggest that trying to do conduct conduct regulation is at least a more kind of repeatable and predictable and sustainable model than, you know, guessing the toss of a coin on these teeny tiny acquisitions.”
Dec 11, 2022 neutral
Dec 11, 2022 neutral
Evans: FTC Meta-Within case is very aggressive; Activision case is much less aggressive
“I think within is kind of a test case to try and push the you know, really kind of move the flag post, move the goal much further over. You know, it's a very aggressive case. I think the Activision case is actually much less aggressive.”
Dec 11, 2022
Evans: Big Tech will keep pursuing acquisitions despite Lina Khan's FTC
“I think part of what's going on here is tech companies saying, we're going to carry on doing these deals. And you try, you just try and stop us. You're going to have, you know, we're not just going to stop doing these deals because you're appointed a head of t…”
Dec 11, 2022 positive
Evans: Blocking Apple's PA Semi deal would have preserved Intel-Qualcomm duopoly
“Apple is making basically better chips than Intel or Qualcomm today, and it's doing that based on the acquisition of PA Semi, which was now a decade ago, also ago, 15 years ago, and what would, if the FTC had blocked that, Then basically they'd have gifted the…”