Zoom, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Benedict Evans 20Toni Cowan-Brown 10
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Zoom comes up
The spring updates on AI
- ▶ 19:50 Benedict Evans The enterprise side, which is, in a sense, is even more interesting, because this kind of gets to the question of does the AI go at the top of the stack or the bottom, is, you know, step one, we're on a Zoom call, somebody's mentioned some… 2 times in the scene
Figma, unbundling and $20bn of antitrust
- ▶ 9:53 Benedict Evans Interesting things here about the sort of the M&A, like one of them is, there's a, I'm working on my sort of annual presentation for the, for the end of the year, and one of the charts might be, um, there was a chart of market cap of Exxon… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:53 Benedict Evans You know, it's no different, there's no switching cost in, you know, no one cares if this call is Teams or Zoom or Meet.
Remember AI?
- ▶ 9:46 Benedict Evans There's a whole space now, which is basically listen to your sales, Zoom calls, give you a transcript, and then do processing to work out which bits are working, which bits aren't.
'Digital transformation' - beyond the silly slogan
- ▶ 28:35 Toni Cowan-Brown And then all of a sudden I noticed everyone else scrambling and trying to figure out how to work remotely, how to get online, how to join zoom meetings.
Who's in the office? Notes on a year of remote work.
- ▶ 6:59 Benedict Evans Whereas Zoom made it really easy to get into a call, but everything else around the Zoom app is really crap. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:51 Toni Cowan-Brown Which is interesting, because I find that unmuting while someone is talking when you're on a Zoom call, extremely impolite, like it pisses me off, I'm like, I can see you, I see, I can visually see that you're trying to get a word in, I…
- ▶ 14:01 Benedict Evans Something I've said several times before was conferences are like a bundle of, there's presentations, there's panels, there's talking in the hallways, there's the side meetings that you've arranged, there's networking, there's probably…
- ▶ 20:41 Toni Cowan-Brown Initially it was like, well, we wouldn't all have gotten on a Zoom conference, but it's just also interesting that that idea of this is the moment where we can all be in a room and finalize that deal or get that deal done. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:51 Toni Cowan-Brown Or the habits, or the expectations, or, you know, hey, we're expecting to see people on Slack, and this is where you check in, and then we're expecting people, by the way, to be on time for Zoom calls, because that's the thing that's… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:32 Benedict Evans Somebody, there was a spate this time last year of people doing takeoffs of classic paintings and removing people and putting, making it into a zoom window. 3 times in the scene
The acceleration of ecommerce habits
- ▶ 13:33 Toni Cowan-Brown The reason I asked about the, the luxury piece was I, I, I did a, I researched and wrote a piece recently about luxury resale, um, business, which I thought was interesting because I, and, and COVID obviously has, you know, impacted…
The paradox of Apple
- ▶ 20:08 Benedict Evans It's the same thing with Zoom. 4 times in the scene
Is content moderation a dead end?
- ▶ 22:25 Toni Cowan-Brown But I've been thinking a lot about other platforms, whether that's Zoom, Spotify, Clubhouse, Substack, how, and I'm getting a sense that they are not actually learning or paying attention to this. 3 times in the scene