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AI deployment
- ▶ 4:07 Benedict Evans This was the thing that kind of applied with the whole software eats the world thing from Mark Andreessen, 1015 years ago.
The end of the network effect
- ▶ 16:26 Benedict Evans I mean, I hate to say it, having worked for Mark Andreessen, but you know, Internet Explorer three was better than Netscape.
A double episode: AI differentiation, and Apple does F1
- ▶ 6:15 Benedict Evans Yeah, well, you know, it's a, it's a famous story that, that Mark Zuckerberg asked, um, Mark Andreessen, what was Netscape? 2 times in the scene
Ai eats the world
- ▶ 34:07 Benedict Evans I mean, Mark Andreessen always says, you know, what is it?
- ▶ 36:01 Benedict Evans It was actually an essay written by my old boss, Marc Andreessen, which was a nice piece of content.
No Soup for You! Regulating tech M&A
- ▶ 29:56 Benedict Evans Hence, you know, I think Marc Andreessen's joke is we invest in all of Stuart's games companies.
A new wave of company creation
- ▶ 7:18 Benedict Evans I'm radically unimpressed by Marc Andreessen saying renting is a soulless experience and nobody would ever want to do that because I've spoken like a man who hasn't rented a home in 25 years.
Three ways to say no
- ▶ 16:34 Benedict Evans Um, my old, my old boss, Mark Andreessen, um, Andreessen Horowitz used to call this the nerd harder argument, which was just, um, meaning like, go off and do more engineering.
Talking about crypto
- ▶ 38:20 Benedict Evans Tim Berners-Lee was really angry when, when Marc Andreessen added the image tag.
Asking the dumb questions
- ▶ 33:16 Benedict Evans This is Mark Andreessen's joke that Andreessen Horowitz is a media company that monetizes through venture capital. 2 times in the scene
What we know about web 3 so far
- ▶ 12:25 Benedict Evans So, um, Tim Berners-Lee got very angry with Marc Andreessen when he added pictures, and if you talk to sort of people who are at Microsoft then, like Stephen Sinowski, like, a lot of people thought this was like a network drive, that this…
How to think about tech
- ▶ 5:13 Benedict Evans Um, but, but that, I mean, I think that also sort of reflects, you know, partly reflects Mark Andreessen's line, the software is eating the world.
Metaverse - beyond the buzzword
- ▶ 19:00 Benedict Evans I mean, Marc Andreessen added photos, embedded photographs to the web, and people were really angry. 2 times in the scene
Creativity and Optimism
- ▶ 49:28 Benedict Evans Yeah, I'll just say Mark, we can just all tweet it, we can all tweet it independently now, like Mark Andreessen, you can make your second fortune, sell an NFT of the Netscape throbber. 2 times in the scene
'Digital transformation' - beyond the silly slogan
- ▶ 37:35 Benedict Evans Which is Marc Andreessen's software is eating the world thesis, which is that, you know, people will use, used to make software and sell it to people.
Shopify and digital transformation
- ▶ 31:28 Benedict Evans And so this is Marc Andreessen's joke is we invest in all of Stuart's games companies.
The history of doom-scrolling
- ▶ 18:32 Benedict Evans That was like, Mark Andreessen said, Andreessen Horowitz is a media company that monetizes through venture capital.
What comes next?
- ▶ 8:38 Benedict Evans And my old colleague Marc Andreessen, well, my colleague Marc Andreessen, he was a big fan of VR and he said, most people don't go anywhere. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:28 Benedict Evans And, you know, a huge part of the sort of the software eating the world story that Mark Andreessen kind of proposed like a decade ago is like, you're not, you know, you're not actually a software company.
Slack, Salesforce and the future of work
- ▶ 18:57 Bernadette Kevins And so this is Mark Andreessen's joke is we invest in all of Stuart's games companies.
Is content moderation a dead end?
- ▶ 26:45 Benedict Evans Which my old boss, Mark Andreessen, likes to refer to as a sort of the nerd harder argument, which is go invent new maths.