Skype, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Skype comes up
Breaking and remaking media
- ▶ 30:41 Benedict Evans Like sometimes you're cutting through a fake pricing structure to get to the real economics underneath, which is kind of what Skype did. 3 times in the scene
When the point of leverage changes
- ▶ 12:15 Benedict Evans It's like saying, is Skype a telco?
Shein, TikTok and Netflix - thinking about limits
- ▶ 9:50 Benedict Evans Here, so here's a statistic, you know, one of the ways that I got interested in, in, in Shin, and this is sort of 18 months ago, which was, you know, when it was really taking off, was, I wish I'd written something about it explicitly, or… 2 times in the scene
Are you a seal?
- ▶ 25:23 Benedict Evans Whereas in Skype, for example, there was nothing to stop you, you know, you suddenly you could just get tell people to install the app, and you could just give them a voice call.
How to think about tech
- ▶ 16:54 Benedict Evans Well, so the first time I saw this, not to go down a rabbit hole, but this reminds me a lot of Skype. 2 times in the scene
Telcos and Tesla
- ▶ 4:36 Benedict Evans And so this is why WhatsApp and Skype basically had no effect on telecoms industry or, or had a very, um, second order effect on the telecoms industry because they had to change their pricing models. 2 times in the scene
Two Europeans talk about China
- ▶ 7:06 Benedict Evans It's like, it's like Europeans talking about Skype.
The paradox of Apple
- ▶ 20:19 Benedict Evans And so, and it's the same thing that happened to Skype. 2 times in the scene
Amazon and eCommerce
- ▶ 15:21 Benedict Evans Um, and now of course the tools to do that have become massively democratized and that's what Shopify is and Instagram and Skype and, you know, MailChimp and all of these kinds of tools mean, you know, stuff that would have cost you tens…
Is Europe a market?
- ▶ 31:50 Benedict Evans Um, and at that time, you know, I used to joke, you know, there are only two startups in London, you know, Skype and Moot.