Benedict Evans

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1,906 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 4 Jun

Benedict Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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She's going to drive to the client site.

She's not going to stay in an Airbnb.

Absolutely zero chance she's going to stay in an Airbnb.

And half of the hotel business is travel.

And as soon as you actually get into anything, then it gets complicated.

I remember somebody on social media said a problem with Benedict is his answer to everything is it depends.

It's like, yeah, it does.

It depends.

So it's back to my 1997 point.

You can say some of this.

Well, I should just kind of wind back on what you just said.

It's like as Keynes tells us, in the long run, we're all dead.

So, you know, it's all, you know, like on average, you know, on average, nobody died in World War I.

Great.

But if you're a 19-year-old in 1914, you've got a one in three chance of not coming back.

So, yes, clearly there's a bunch of professions where this is a major question.

And particularly if you're an associate or would have been thinking about being an associate, this is a major question.

And it's very unclear how those professions are going to play out.

It's very unclear what happens to the pyramid structure of professional services.

The only answer I think one can have is, you know, don't stick your head in the sand and say, I hate all of this stuff.

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