United States
also referred to as: u s · us · usa
32 statements across 24 episodes · 6 bullish · 4 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Oct 11, 2020 by Benedict Evans · said 562 times in 82 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Benedict Evans (434), Toni Cowan-Brown (108), Lillian Li (8), Leonard Brody (5), Jay Goldberg (5), Jeremy White (1), Benedict Catton (1)
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2026 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2025 17 mentions in 3 episodes 6 per episode
2024 70 mentions in 8 episodes 9 per episode
2023 54 mentions in 12 episodes 5 per episode
2022 136 mentions in 23 episodes 6 per episode
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2021 148 mentions in 23 episodes 6 per episode
2020 129 mentions in 9 episodes 14 per episode
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Oct 11, 2020 neutral
Evans: Lacking a US privacy regulator, Apple and Google write the rules
“The US doesn't have a privacy regulator. And so Facebook, Apple on one level, you know, Apple and Google are remaking the ad tech industries. And so they're doing privacy regulation. Apple is doing privacy regulation and what you can do on the phone. Facebook …”
Oct 11, 2020 neutral
Oct 11, 2020 neutral
Evans: Fragmented European markets prevent US-style city-by-city marketplace rollouts
“If you're going to do Instacart, say, You can launch in San Francisco, and then you can pick 10 more, and then 20 more, and then 10 more, and then 30 more, and you can kind of go, go out step by step by step across the country. Whereas in Europe, you couldn't …”
Oct 11, 2020 positive
Evans: UK is two to three years ahead of US in tech adoption
“The UK is probably two or three years ahead of the USA on average in adoption of technology in things like adoption of smartphones, adoption of social media, particular adoption of e-commerce. Now that's the USA as an, it may not be ahead of California, but it…”
Oct 26, 2020 neutral
Oct 26, 2020 positive
Nov 2, 2020 neutral
Evans: American cultural dominance over global internet regulation is over
“The first 25 years of the consumer internet was basically American, and the big companies, you know, the agenda, and therefore the kind of the cultural attitudes and the legal attitudes to how they should work were all American.
And you can, again, you can gen…”
Nov 9, 2020 neutral
Cowan-Brown: US campaign software companies must pick Republicans or Democrats
“In the US, campaigning software is politicized. So you create software for one political party, not for both. And so you either create software or campaigning software, organizing software for the Republicans or the Democrats, but you can't be seen doing it fo…”
Nov 23, 2020 positive
Evans: US physical clothing retailers saw their online sales double
“In the US online clothing sales, online sales by clothing retailers. Doubled. That does, that's not telling you anything about what's happening in Amazon. That's just telling you traditional physical stores that also sell online. Yeah. Their online sales doubl…”
Jan 10, 2021 bearish
Jan 24, 2021
Jan 31, 2021 neutral
Evans: US Elevator Attendant Employment Peaked at 100,000 in 1950
“And the elevator attendants go up from zero in 1870, they go to like a 100,000 in 1950, and then they go all the way back down again. Because before you had, you only get automated elevators with button, with a push button for each floor in the 19 fifties. Bef…”
Jun 14, 2021 neutral
Jul 13, 2021 neutral
Aug 26, 2021 positive
Sep 28, 2021
Evans: China regulates algorithmic feeds while US and EU lag far behind
“So like, you know, very, very detailed thing on how algorithmic content moderation should work, and how algorithmic content feeds should work, which the EU and the US have not anywhere close to having. Like, now here's a law on how the news feed should work.”
Sep 28, 2021 neutral
Oct 18, 2021 positive
Jun 6, 2022 positive
Jul 25, 2022 negative
Aug 1, 2022 negative
Sep 5, 2022 neutral
Dec 11, 2022
Evans: EU and UK competition law always looked beyond consumer prices
“Which, frankly, the rest of the world has always thought like that. It was in kind of the US that got narrowly focused on price in the EU and the UK have always kind of looked at the broader kind of context of what outcomes we want.”
Dec 19, 2022
Dec 19, 2022 neutral
Mar 12, 2023 bearish
Evans: US Has 5 to 10 Times More Retail Space Per Capita
“Well, so there's a chart in my presentation of retail square, square foot per capita in, in which the U S has like five to 10 times more retail square foot per capita than anywhere else. And half of that is is, is malls in which the U S has basically massively…”
Mar 20, 2023
Evans: US, Japan, and South Korea now comprise only a quarter of traffic.
“One of the charts in my presentation is that like a quarter of global internet traffic is USA, Japan, South Korea combined. And then another quarter is India and a quarter is China and a quarter is everything else. So like where I was 10 years ago, it was like…”
Oct 15, 2023 neutral
Oct 15, 2023 neutral
Evans: Over 50% of new US heterosexual relationships formed online in 2021
“At that point it was 40%, and they've run it forward now to 20 21 with a smaller sample set, and there's now over 50%. So basically 50% of new relationships, so 50% of relationships formed in 2021 in the US are formed online.”
Mar 13, 2024 neutral
Mar 13, 2024 neutral
Brown: TikTok Gives Americans a Taste of Foreign Tech Dominance
“Saying that, like, basically Americans are experiencing what the rest of Europe has experienced over the last 10 years of, yeah, your citizens are loving a piece, a social media app that wasn't designed by Americans for Americans with Americans in mind.
yeah,…”
Apr 16, 2026 neutral
Evans: US accountant headcounts rose every decade of the 20th century
“The number of accountants in the USA increased every single decade in the 20th century. As you go through adding machines and computers and mainframes and PCs and Excel and ERPs and SAS, you get wave after wave of automation and the number of accountants keeps…”