Another Podcast

Benedict Evans, Toni Cowan-Brown

If you're looking for another over-scripted and edited podcast, this is not it. But if you want to listen to honest and unfiltered discussions about the latest in tech and its impact on society, welcome, you have come to the right place. This is Another Podcast where two friends and colleagues discuss their overlapping experiences and perspectives on what happens in technology. We might know some of the same things, yet we also have different backgrounds and expertise, or at least, we ask different questions. Benedict Evans has worked in equity research, strategy and venture capital and owns lots of old phones; Toni Cowan-Brown works at the intersection of tech, policy and politics.

  • 45 minutes 38 seconds
    From SAAS software to Formula 1

    Benedict went from being a consultant to an analyst to having his own business, but in essence, he's always been an analyst. Toni went from policy to consultancy, then from B2B sales to Formula 1. After four years of doing the podcast, we thought it would be interesting to sit down and discuss how we got here and talk all things Formula 1.

    11 October 2024, 8:00 am
  • 37 minutes 40 seconds
    Google's Antitrust case

    A quarter century after 'don't be evil', a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in search. But no-one knows what happens next, and whether this ruling will change anything. Will Apple build a search engine? Will ChatGPT change search? Does it matter? There are many more questions than answers. 

    19 August 2024, 1:31 am
  • 37 minutes 40 seconds
    The AI summer

    As we go into the summer, we know a lot more about generative AI than we did six or nine months ago - or at least, we have better questions. 

    1 July 2024, 12:32 am
  • 31 minutes 53 seconds
    Looking for AI use-cases

    Generative AI is the thing, and all new software will be built around it. But while everyone is experimenting and some people are getting huge value out of ChatGPT or Midjourney right now, others haven't worked out how to make it useful. Yet. So how do we find use-cases for a universal, general purpose, magical technology, and is that a crazy question?

    1 April 2024, 5:12 pm
  • 34 minutes 46 seconds
    Tiktok, Apple and Temu

    Will the US finally break up Tiktok? Will the EU break up the App Store? And why does Temu want to keep your orders under $800?

    13 March 2024, 4:11 pm
  • 32 minutes 29 seconds
    Google Gemini and AI bias

    Are there questions that an AI chatbot shouldn't answer? Should it always give the 'right answer'? Are you sure? Google has egg on its face this week, but this isn't easy, and with generative AI, we're going to re-run all the arguments and panics we had over content moderation in the last decade.  

    3 March 2024, 11:16 pm
  • 39 minutes
    Breaking and remaking media

    We’re past peak TV, the charts are curving down, and Hollywood is pretty sure that streaming was a bad idea. On the other hand, music is growing strongly and might even end up bigger than CDs. Why have newspapers, books, movies, TV and music coped so differently with the internet?

    16 February 2024, 12:00 am
  • 30 minutes 44 seconds
    Apple's Vision Pro

    Yes, we bought one. What’s it like and what can we say that we didn’t say last summer? What has Apple built, what is it for, what does it mean for Meta, and why does it cost $3,500? 

    8 February 2024, 9:30 pm
  • 34 minutes 4 seconds
    What's your AI strategy?

    Everyone needs an AI strategy (there was an email from the CEO!) but what would that mean? How does a big company work out how to deploy a new technology? How is this the same as every other platform shift, and how might it be different? 

    29 January 2024, 1:12 am
  • 35 minutes 34 seconds
    AI and Everything Else

    Every year, Benedict produces a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. Here are some of the key takeaways from this year's presentation - AI, and everything else.

    Presentation - https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations 

    17 December 2023, 7:02 pm
  • 30 minutes 31 seconds
    LLMs, links, and the death of links

    We spent the last 30 years building structures on top or instead of the raw links of the web, from Google to TikTok… but now LLMs might read all the links for us. 

    29 October 2023, 8:24 pm
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