FedEx, every mention
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Most people and companies aren't tool-builders
- ▶ 4:11 Benedict Evans And so before frame.io, that would have been a bunch of private Vimeo's or Dropbox links or maybe some FedEx hard disks, and then it would have been an email thread.
AI and SaaS
- ▶ 21:00 Benedict Evans You're FedExing hard disks around the country, or maybe you've got a Google drive if the files aren't too big and you've got enough bandwidth, and then there's a Google sheet with time codes and comments and a whole bunch of email, and…
LLMs, links, and the death of links
- ▶ 25:11 Benedict Evans That money goes to Instagram and FedEx.
All the other things happening in tech part 1.
- ▶ 26:27 Benedict Evans But Anchor instead sells direct, but they don't save money by not having stores because they give all the money to Amazon and Instagram, either for shipping and FedEx and UPS.
Stories in the noise
- ▶ 34:21 Benedict Evans Buy 10 of them and FedEx them to Ukraine.
'Digital transformation' - beyond the silly slogan
- ▶ 12:10 Benedict Evans And so instead of FedExing the disks around or sending people links to the video on Vimeo, and then having a spreadsheet where you list all the issues,
The acceleration of ecommerce habits
- ▶ 18:51 Benedict Evans Amazon is like a, it's a combination between database and a super specialized version of FedEx.
Amazon and eCommerce
- ▶ 11:52 Benedict Evans I mean, it's like, there's an old joke that, that Dell is basically a very specialized version of FedEx.