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A double episode: AI differentiation, and Apple does F1
- ▶ 40:43 Benedict Evans The Apple conversation is, it's just like, I mean, there was this story a long time ago, um, that I think it was, um, Seagram invested in a company in Hollywood, um, in one of the movie studios for some reason, sometime in the sixties. 2 times in the scene
From SAAS software to Formula 1
- ▶ 29:20 Benedict Catton I mean, clearly at a certain point you'll run out of Hollywood.
The magic customer
- ▶ 1:15 Benedict Evans The tech industry goes off and does something else, and so the obvious place you can see this now is with Hollywood and streaming, where yes, Netflix is a participant, but Netflix is a participant as a TV company, 2 times in the scene
Working out AI questions
- ▶ 23:07 Benedict Evans It's the Hollywood line, you know, what have you done for me lately?
No Soup for You! Regulating tech M&A
- ▶ 18:26 Benedict Evans And I think Mike, Mike Ovitz had this sort of story that like, you know, he was a TV agent and that was like, you know, a second class citizen in Hollywood.
When the point of leverage changes
- ▶ 5:28 Benedict Evans We're going to go to Hollywood and we're going to buy a whole bunch of stuff. 2 times in the scene
Stories in the noise
- ▶ 15:15 Benedict Evans The version, the version that you get in the story is they hired two different Hollywood women, paid both of them twenty million dollars a year, and 4 times in the scene
Netflix isn't a tech company
- ▶ 6:15 Benedict Evans Um, and we have way more shows, and therefore our risk is spread way more, and we've got all this money, so what we should do is we should get all these people from Hollywood and give them all the creative freedom, just as they've lost it…
- ▶ 23:25 Benedict Evans Um, and so that's, so if you're in Hollywood, you're kind of looking at this and like. 2 times in the scene
How to think about tech
- ▶ 12:17 Benedict Evans And that's what Netflix is, and it's what's happening to Hollywood right now.