“I run the innovation lab. It’s like we’re a startup, but inside a big company.” https://t.co/q3m7XysPNn
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
I have a theory that all the Silicon Valley kids being sent on STEM courses and coding camps aged 3 will grow up to… https://t.co/XTY2RPIgzP
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
Anyone working longer hours than me won’t produce more - they’ll just waste effort, burn out and ruin their life.… https://t.co/9Xi8UR9BpG
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
"Hey, what if you did a car company AND a rocket company?" https://t.co/XpQxZRDC87
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
The more experience you have of big companies, the more you realize that what looks to the outside like a brilliant… https://t.co/cOFSIsz0jL
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
Periodic reminder that Amazon has low single digit percentage share of US retail. Gas stations are a bigger business than all of e-commerce.
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
1970s: “IBM is unbeatable” 1990s: “Microsoft is unbeatable” 2010s: “GAFA are unbeatable” The cycle between tech gen… https://t.co/Ztei86EaJl
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
"Only rich people will have autonomous cars" reminds me of "only rich people will have mobile phones". New tech sta… https://t.co/61zGZFx5tb
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
I once told someone quite senior at Facebook that I didn’t use the product much. Their reply; “but how do you keep… https://t.co/ZOfj4jbOir
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
San Francisco achievement unlocked -someone got into my car as I parked thinking I was their Lyft
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
I have huge admiration for everything Elon Musk has done and is trying to do. I'm not sure if it will all *work* (a… https://t.co/tKeiuXarkR
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
LinkedIn: ‘congratulate Sarah for starting a new role as ‘unemployed’ at ‘seeking opportunities’. Seriously, how… https://t.co/EDrRC1FOvW
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
“My addressable market is mail-order books” versus “my addressable market is the global retail industry” https://t.co/ZiO2D6nClQ
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
Idle reminder that Amazon has only 6-7% of US retail today. And Google has only about 10% of global advertising and marketing spending
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
Its always weird when Americans on the right dismiss ‘socialized’ healthcare as a terrible idea without also condem… https://t.co/M9Av6wBOnk
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
A startup is an idea, and then it’s an machine for making the idea and a machine for getting people to use the idea… https://t.co/jO8qFUg5z4
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
Every Tesla bull in my mentions: “You don’t understand - Tesla will win because it got here first”. Nokia, RIM, Pa… https://t.co/id5x7arwrj
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
All social apps grow until you need a newsfeed All newsfeeds grow until you need an algorithmic feed All algorithmi… https://t.co/djL8PNerRs
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
New post: ways to think about machine learning. https://t.co/jTD139BBxz
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
I made a new presentation: “The end of the beginning“ https://t.co/H7KOenviL6
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
Today I gave a talk about machine learning to 100 13-year-olds at my old school. They asked exactly the same questi… https://t.co/oSTds9cTS4
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
You can believe both that crypto is full of delusional utopian lunatics saying stuff that’ll never happen and that… https://t.co/4JCLchkeji
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
90% of adults on earth have a mobile phone now, and two thirds and growing have a smartphone. We sometimes forget h… https://t.co/O0dKScMnoe
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
“OK Google, call the top 25 rated restaurants in San Francisco and ask which of them have a table tonight at 7.” I… https://t.co/RIsi29OhMw
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
We don’t want irrelevant ads or ads that are too relevant. We don’t want anyone to know what we bought but we want… https://t.co/kc0H5fnnCv
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
My son just turned on my parents radio and said ‘hey, Google!’ Perplexed that it didn’t respond.
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
FFS, quitting Facebook isn’t ‘the new quitting smoking’. It’s the new ‘I don’t have a TV’. In both cases the most i… https://t.co/tukZp6xZK6
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
Does any major tech company hate its users- actively loath them - as much as LinkedIn?
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
I've met a bunch of people working on 5G who think it's essential for autonomous cars. I've never met anyone workin… https://t.co/60iDXQ1WfR
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
Cool use of digital projection to spell out the story on this relief step-by-step. https://t.co/4kpChVCwsr
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
Idle reminder: Silicon Valley is a system for running experiments. It’s the nature of experiments that some fail -… https://t.co/GTvwAXji85
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
Few things baffle me more than throwing a party for a hundred interesting people to talk to each other, and then ge… https://t.co/he7VcRpmwF
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
Iconic moments of tech history. Today, someone somewhere is writing something very similar about another such creat… https://t.co/8iA9kIrOrS
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
The irony of all these ‘iPads can’t replace your PC’ arguments is that for the great majority of people a smartphon… https://t.co/DHlmwLW25a
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
Apple will make smart glasses, cars, contact lenses and neural implants. Google will make search, discovery and rec… https://t.co/ugxcR6vHij
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
Next time you want to know something and have a few PDFs open in tabs after 5 minutes in Google, think how many tri… https://t.co/3RE7JCxQQ5
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
Cars killed 1.25 million people last year, and injured over 20 million. Well over 95% of this was due to human erro… https://t.co/MD9Ij8BjSP
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)
At ‘peak horse’ in the USA, in 1920, there were 0.24 horses per person. (Today, there are 0.8 cars per person.) We… https://t.co/txOgDavDfn
— benedictevans (@benedictevans)