Benedict Evans
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1,906 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 4 Jun
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And I ask an AI to build me a training routine and watch me and tell me if I'm doing it right.
Why do I need a personal trainer?
Now that might be complete nonsense.
But that's how these things work.
Like the stuff that you don't think is, you can't predict which things are going to be exposed necessarily.
Or, you know, a lot of the big companies are things that didn't look like that would work and didn't look like that was exposed.
The other side of this, of course, is this is one of the charts at the end of my presentation is comparing Uber and Airbnb because this is like the cliche from Mark and recent that like Uber doesn't sell software to taxi companies.
Airbnb doesn't sell software to hotels.
Okay, now let's go and look at the market impact.
Well, a whole bunch of cities were able to demolish the taxi business and made it much bigger as well.
The TAM became much bigger and everyone switched.
Airbnb's impact on hotels, if you actually go and look at the numbers, is pretty marginal.
They carved out this whole other business and maybe they slowed down the growth of hotels a bit.
But, you know, my wife flies to Milwaukee next week.
She's going to land at eight o'clock at night.
She wants to go to a hotel.
She wants to have room service.
She needs a bath.
She needs, you know, she needs a gym at six in the morning.
And then she gets seven in the morning.
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