Benedict Evans

Independent Technology Analyst · 1 appearance on the record.

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Benedict Evans is an independent analyst known for his annual macro presentations and tech industry newsletter. He previously served as a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and co-hosts Another Podcast.

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1 prediction · 6 assertions · 10 opinions · 11 insights · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 6 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Benedict argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Evans: Kodak was once the best-selling US digital camera vendor

“What actually happens is, once it starts happening, Kodak go all in on digital cameras. At one point, they were the best-selling digital camera vendor in the USA, and if you look at their annual ports at the time, they think this is going to be great, because …”

Benedict Evans Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 8:55 Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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What they said28 Episodes1

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Assertion Supported

Evans: US Surveys Show Only Roughly 10% of People Use LLMs Daily

“You look at survey data, and I did this slide in the last presentation I did of, like, five different surveys from the US from late last year, earlier this year, and it's all roughly the same. It's like something around 10% Give or take three or four percent o…”

Benedict Evans Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 34:34 Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

Insight

Evans: AI embedded in software UI drives massive adoption over chatbots

“If you were using Salesforce, and you had a button that said, draw off me an email to reply to this client, then that gets massive adoption.”

Benedict Evans Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 41:03 Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

Assertion Supported

Evans: Big Tech capex reached $220B and will surpass $300B

“I think last year the Google, Google, Microsoft, AWS, and Meta spent about two hundred and twenty billion dollars of CapEx last year, And we'll probably spend something over 300 this year.”

Benedict Evans Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 1:00:37 Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

Assertion Supported

Evans: Mary Meeker's 1995 report incorrectly predicted email would dwarf web usage

“If you look at Mary Meeker's first big public internet report from 1995, she has a separate forecast for web users and email users, and she thought email users would be way bigger.”

Benedict Evans Sep 2, 2025 ▶ 3:27 Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) \| Benedict Evans	Sep 2, 2025	54m

Benedict Evans

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