Los Angeles, every mention
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every year anyone Benedict Evans 27Toni Cowan-Brown 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Los Angeles comes up
A double episode: AI differentiation, and Apple does F1
- ▶ 35:06 Benedict Evans The problem with TV is all that Apple does in TV is they go to LA and they buy TV shows from LA people. 4 times in the scene
Tiktok, Apple and Temu
- ▶ 31:03 Benedict Evans Or Gap, or Forever 21, or all of these brands that have the stuff made by the same factories in China, it's loaded into a shipping container in Shenzhen, in Shanghai, or Guangzhou, or wherever it is, and when it lands in LA, um, they pay…
Breaking and remaking media
- ▶ 28:50 Benedict Evans These are all LA conversations, as I saw my conversations here.
The right questions to ask about TikTok
- ▶ 37:58 Benedict Evans They go to LA and they buy them. 3 times in the scene
TV after software
- ▶ 16:03 Benedict Evans They're questions of, you know, the deals to be done by different people in LA and New York.
When the point of leverage changes
- ▶ 6:28 Benedict Evans The puzzle I always had looking at the Apple TV stuff where it's like, all they do is go to LA and buy stuff from LA people.
Stories in the noise
- ▶ 20:28 Benedict Evans Like you go to LA and you buy LA stuff from LA people and you give them money and you, and you put it on a hard disk and you fly back to San Francisco and you load it in the data center.
- ▶ 31:22 Benedict Evans Um, and especially in LA when you're, do you think, hang on, you're selling, you're selling a five hundred million dollar house or a fifty million dollar house.
Netflix isn't a tech company
- ▶ 27:26 Benedict Evans I mean, it's kind of my point, you know, these are all LA questions, not Silicon Valley questions, but it's not like anyone in LA knows. 4 times in the scene
Metaverse - beyond the buzzword
- ▶ 25:26 Benedict Evans The, an American department store, like there would be a luxury department store like iMagnum, which I think was in San Francisco or LA, I forget.
Who's in the office? Notes on a year of remote work.
- ▶ 11:07 Toni Cowan-Brown The half an hour thing is interesting to me, because as someone who did remote work in a company, so when I worked at NationBuilder, we were in person, it was a company where everyone went to the office, then it flipped to remote friendly,…
- ▶ 17:17 Benedict Evans Was, you know, the, the, the, the call, the, the exec who flies from London to New York, to LA, to Chicago, to Paris, to London in a week, or, you know, exaggerating slightly, but not really.
Clubhouse and the endless cycle of social apps
- ▶ 28:01 Benedict Evans Snapchat comes from LA, which for most people in the tech industry is like, you know, what's in LA? 4 times in the scene
Two Europeans talk about China
- ▶ 19:46 Benedict Evans It doesn't, or LA.
Is content moderation a dead end?
- ▶ 13:15 Toni Cowan-Brown In this case, we were based in CEO was based in Los Angeles, but do you want that CEO to be making decisions about who has access to organize, not even just have your voices heard, but who is, who is allowed to have a website?
Amazon and eCommerce
- ▶ 18:25 Benedict Evans What Amazon let you do is that you could live anywhere in America and you could get something that previously you could only get in New York or LA or Chicago. 3 times in the scene