France, every mention
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Tiktok, Apple and Temu
- ▶ 18:18 Toni Cowan-Brown They're like, yeah, but it'd be better if it was in France. 5 times in the scene
Google Gemini and AI bias
- ▶ 22:32 Benedict Evans In eighteenth-century France, you could do that.
Breaking and remaking media
- ▶ 16:58 Benedict Evans And so what happened in the 2002 1010 was particularly, for example, what happened in France, which is the market I know most about,
The magic customer
- ▶ 28:13 Benedict Evans well so there's a there's a semi-serious assertion that the arrival of the bicycle in trance in the late 19th century reduced the number of burst effects because you could marry somebody from the next village i never know benedict with you…
AI, copyright and collective knowledge
- ▶ 12:16 Benedict Evans There's a French, French composer called Ernest Bourguet, who is now completely forgotten, maybe not in France, but anywhere else.
The right questions to ask about TikTok
- ▶ 14:41 Benedict Evans In, you know, in America, in Europe, in France, you're not allowed to ask somebody if they're Jewish.
Why are chips interesting again?
- ▶ 33:05 Benedict Evans My favorite, my, my favorite one here was France, um, having a, a semiconductor plant and you turn out, it turns out it's like, it's a hundred million euros and it's to make wafers.
Three ways to say no
- ▶ 25:38 Benedict Evans But that, there's a sort of, it's like, it's a terrible argument to say, I just don't want to do what the democratic consensus in France says that we should do.
Netflix isn't a tech company
- ▶ 35:01 Benedict Evans So UK, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy combined, those broadcasters are only spending 10 to fifteen billion dollars.
Ukraine
- ▶ 21:13 Benedict Evans I was on a call yesterday with a bunch of regulators, European regulators, um, one of the other person, the other speaker was someone from one of the French regulatory agencies.
How to think about tech
- ▶ 5:23 Benedict Evans You know, it's sort of fascinating to look at something like, um, particularly Netflix, because, I mean, I've said this sort of several times, I think Netflix and Tesla are sort of a pair, because Netflix, all the questions are TV…
Metaverse - beyond the buzzword
- ▶ 25:09 Benedict Evans And so what LVMH, I mean, if you sort of go to the history of the luxury goods fashion industry, back to the fifties, the model in the fifties was, and I'm going to simplify this massively, but the model in the fifties was that you had a…
Regulation - Who will notice?
- ▶ 8:23 Toni Cowan-Brown Well, my, my French 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:15 Benedict Evans Delivery can't operate in France anymore.
Telcos and Tesla
- ▶ 14:40 Benedict Evans And in hindsight, of course, that was like Minitel in France, which was, it was a thing you could do, but it wasn't the thing that was going to be
- ▶ 27:18 Toni Cowan-Brown And I think we're seeing the same narrative with both the shift to electric and you're hearing whether it's the UK, whether it's France, whether it's America, that, you know, X amount of cars close to 50% of cars on the road by 2030 or 20…
Creativity and Optimism
- ▶ 5:04 Benedict Evans That was a big cultural movement, and that gets you arts and crafts in Britain, and it gets you art in France and Belgium and so on.
Tech in china, from inside and outside
- ▶ 13:30 Benedict Evans Um, so tech adoption in Italy or Spain or France is much lower than it is in the UK or the USA. 3 times in the scene
Two Europeans talk about China
- ▶ 16:36 Benedict Evans So there was this quote from 1962, Hayako Ikeda, who is, and there you see, I can pronounce the Japanese name, Hayako Ikeda, who was the Prime Minister of Japan, was on a state visit to France in 1962, and Charles de Gaulle said, who is…
- ▶ 22:26 Benedict Evans Um, Britain was the world's biggest industrial economy, or a hundred years, Britain was the world's biggest industrial economy, and then Germany, and it's sort of Britain, Germany, France, and, you know, and America, and then America sort…
There's no such thing as data
- ▶ 22:05 Toni Cowan-Brown Um, and that was one reason why we never did business in Germany, but it was the same in France.
- ▶ 22:21 Benedict Evans So Germany does, Germany has, um, photo IDs, and so does France. 3 times in the scene
The history of doom-scrolling
- ▶ 28:42 Benedict Evans Do I need to see another 50 pictures of, you know, French interiors and Japanese ceramics and, like, weird German fifties churches?
The acceleration of ecommerce habits
- ▶ 24:28 Benedict Evans There's like 10,000 customers in France and then 10,000 customers in Britain.
How do you destroy a tech monopoly?
- ▶ 33:46 Benedict Evans I can never remember whether CERN is in France or Switzerland. 2 times in the scene
Amazon and eCommerce
- ▶ 4:47 Benedict Evans If they work for Amazon, then that's third party, first party sale.
Is Europe a market?
- ▶ 3:42 Benedict Evans I mean, obviously, you know, the reason, the reason that France, French census doesn't collect race or religion is because of what happened during the second world war.
- ▶ 16:46 Benedict Evans Um, then there's an old joke that when the apocalypse comes, I want to be in France because everything happens three years later there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:09 Benedict Evans and then you'll have to be a different thing again to be in France and a different thing again to be in Germany.
- ▶ 30:33 Toni Cowan-Brown Um, but because I think you're going to start seeing a boom of the tech, um, hubs in Berlin, in France, even though they're already present, but they're going to become even more so like the hubs of the tech startup world.
- ▶ 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,…
- ▶ 40:35 Toni Cowan-Brown But then this idea of waving a flag, and I always look at it, and I'm, I'm a bizarre product of the European Union in that I was born in France, British by passport, but never really lived in the UK until recently. 7 times in the scene