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Another Podcast

by Benedict Evans, Toni Cowan-Brown
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About the show

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.

Latest episodes

  • Looking for friction

    September 20, 2026 · 22 min

    How much consumer spending and how many business models are locked up by friction, inertia and complexity that AI might reduce or remove? How many businesses depend on making it too hard to bother? What happens if ‘the marginal cost of…

  • AI deployment

    August 16, 2026 · 26 min

    Every big company deployed Copilot. Hmm. That doesn't seem to have changed everything, so now what? How does this work, how do change management and 'AI deploycos' turn out, and how does this fit into 'normal technology'?

  • Most people and companies aren't tool-builders

    July 24, 2026 · 19 min

    AI makes it easy for anyone to build tools to automate their work... except most people and most companies aren't tool-builders, don't think like that, and can't and won't do that. This is why software companies and consultants exist - AI…

  • Token pricing

    July 15, 2026 · 24 min

    AI is in a supply crunch today, but what happens when we come out of it? How and where will supply, demand, price, capacity and capex get back into equilibrium? Today, model labs can name their price, but why won’t they end up as…

  • The spring updates on AI

    June 5, 2026 · 39 min

    Twice a year, Benedict publishes a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry, and the latest came out a few weeks ago. These days, that means AI. What's new and what are the big questions?

  • What jobs are AI jobs?

    April 16, 2026 · 30 min

    How do you know what AI will do to your industry? Your company? Your job? The easy, obvious answer is to add up the things you do that can be automated, but it’s probably better to ask how the job will change, and to ask what your job…

  • The end of the network effect

    February 28, 2026 · 26 min

    OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and are leveraging their product and distribution…

  • AI and SaaS

    February 23, 2026 · 32 min

    What does AI do to software? What's a more interesting answer than 'no, this won't kill SaaS'? And what comes after the euphoria?