Financial Times

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 3, 2021 by Benedict Evans · said 16 times in 11 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Jan 3, 2021 neutral
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Evans: FT Weekend festival sold 3 to 4 times more tickets online
“So the FT Weekend does this literary festival every summer, which is like professors and writers and so on, in like three big tents in a park in North London, Kenwood House. And they sell a couple of thousand tickets, and it's like a hundred quid. And this yea…”
Benedict Evans Jan 3, 2021 ▶ 29:56 The history of doom-scrolling
Sep 20, 2021 positive
Opinion
Evans: Apple remains detached from short-term tech hype and panics
“It strikes me that Apple is like the two trillion dollar elephant in the corner of tech, because there are all these enthusiasms and arguments and panics and things that go on, whether it's, you know, content, whether it's, you know, content moderation, or adv…”
Benedict Evans Sep 20, 2021 ▶ 1:29 Apple's metronome
Feb 23, 2026 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Evans: Private equity holds $500B in debt from software buyouts
“There's a big piece in the FT this morning about how much money the private equity industry put into buying software companies in the last 10 or 15 years, and a whole amount of debt, like half a billion, half a trillion dollars of debt around that.”
Benedict Evans Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 3:00 AI and SaaS
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