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Evans: A software company's moat is go-to-market, not writing code
“I don't feel like the reason it's hard to compete with X or Y or Z company is how long it would take you to write the code to replicate the product. It's almost never the problem. It's the problem. The hard part is everything else. It's working out what the pr…”
Benedict Evans Apr 16, 2026 ▶ 12:59 What jobs are AI jobs?
Assertion Supported
Cowan-Brown: There is no global definition of hate speech
“I mean, when I used to work at nation builder, we had also such a hard time of defining. And again, it's a little bit different there because it's not a platform that amplifies I'll come back to that in a second, but it's not a platform. You don't go there to …”
Toni Cowan-Brown Nov 9, 2020 ▶ 7:56 Is content moderation a dead end?
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cowan-Brown: Apple privacy changes will disrupt political campaign email operations
“That's where my head always goes when I talk about newsletters and emails, and it's just when politics, you know, what is it going to look like when politicians, when I used to work at Nationworld, that was the big thing of, we need to know how many a percent …”
Toni Cowan-Brown Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 34:26 The Business of publishing
Disclosure
Cowan-Brown: NationBuilder failed to profit from European political campaigns
“When I was building out NationBuilder in, in Europe. We didn't make any money from campaigns. Presidential campaigns come and go. So you have a great amount of revenue. You've got great RR for a couple of, you know MRR, sorry, not AR. Good monthly revenue for,…”
Toni Cowan-Brown Nov 9, 2020 ▶ 21:40 Is content moderation a dead end?
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