General Motors, every mention
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every year anyone Benedict Evans 37Benedict Catton 1
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From SAAS software to Formula 1
- ▶ 12:45 Benedict Catton I mean, the sort of thing you don't have in cars, you know, you don't have a car publication that talks about, um, that reviews the new car and also talks about, you know, general electric, general notice dividend policy.
Tiktok, Apple and Temu
- ▶ 7:55 Benedict Evans And does our tax code encourage low density development is not the same question as is GM bullying their suppliers and 3 times in the scene
How many metaverses?
- ▶ 24:39 Benedict Evans Um, and there's a sort of narrative that says, well, there was Ford and General Motors and Chrysler, and they won, and that was it for the car industry until the Japanese came along. 4 times in the scene
TV after software
- ▶ 27:23 Benedict Evans Um, just as you know, nobody at GM in the sixties designing cars is really thinking about Walmart. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:08 Benedict Evans That wasn't really something that, that wasn't really something General Motors could do much about.
Three ways to say no
- ▶ 26:58 Benedict Evans It's like, it's as though General Motors says, um, we don't believe in speed limits. 2 times in the scene
Are you a seal?
- ▶ 16:55 Benedict Evans And the reason I kind of, I said this, I'm sorry, I'm going to rambling a bit, but the sort of second point, which you say, well, as a consequence of that, therefore, like GM and Ford, it was GM and Ford and Chrysler, and that was it, and… 2 times in the scene
Asking the dumb questions
- ▶ 16:03 Benedict Evans It's basically, you know, um, GM and Ford, and Chrysler are a long way behind, and there's a few others, like, you know, the checker cab company and things, but, but basically it's GM and Ford, and so there's a narrative that says, well,… 9 times in the scene
Regulation - Who will notice?
- ▶ 12:14 Benedict Evans Um, you know, you sell components to General Motors. 3 times in the scene
'Digital transformation' - beyond the silly slogan
- ▶ 41:15 Benedict Evans And so General Motors creates whatever it is, 300 millionaires in Detroit, but how many, like, entirely new retail companies and real estate developments were there because everybody had a car?
Paying attention to Apple again
- ▶ 21:13 Benedict Evans And it's not like just Ford and General Motors and
Is content moderation a dead end?
- ▶ 29:33 Benedict Evans And you can't go to General Motors. 4 times in the scene
How do you destroy a tech monopoly?
- ▶ 6:16 Benedict Evans So let's break up General Motors. 5 times in the scene