retail

4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 16, 2020 by Benedict Evans · across every show →

Everything said about retail, oldest first

Nov 16, 2020 positive
Insight
Evans: Apple only goes asset-heavy in retail and custom silicon
“And so they've always been very, they've always been actually been very asset light in almost all of this stuff. It's only, it's A, retail, and B, chips. Those are the places that they push deep into assets. Because that was where you could deliver something f…”
Benedict Evans Nov 16, 2020 ▶ 18:36 The paradox of Apple
Mar 14, 2021 neutral
Insight
Evans: E-commerce converged retail rent, shipping, and advertising into one budget
“Retail, rent, advertising, marketing, same day returns, free shipping, free returns. These in the past were all separate budgets. Now they're all kind of the same thing.”
Benedict Evans Mar 14, 2021 ▶ 23:13 Trying to understand Ad Tech
Nov 8, 2021
Insight
Evans: Legacy industries face disruption 15 years after tech hype peaks
“That retail that that retail tv and so on advertising and now being completely overturned by stuff that people in tech were obsessed by 15 years ago”
Benedict Evans Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 36:28 How to think about tech
Aug 23, 2022 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Evans: A wave of non-software company creation is coming across retail
“Like, there is clearly going to be a wave of new company creation, right? Outside of software. So whether that's apparel, or retailing, or restaurants, all sorts of things, like the whole basis of how you buy stuff online changes.”
Benedict Evans Aug 23, 2022 ▶ 21:33 A new wave of company creation
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