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The end of the beginning. 

In yet another example of top-notch content from the a16z team, Benedict Evans posted a video of his presentation at the firm’s annual tech conference. “Close to three quarters of all the adults on earth now have a smartphone, and […]

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Ways to think about machine learning. 

The always-thoughtful Benedict Evans discusses machine learning in this post. He shuts down some of the oft-repeated sayings like “data is the new oil” in favor of more practical ways to understand the technology shift we’re living through. |learn more

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The death of the newsfeed. 

This is yet another great post by Benedict Evans of a16z. “What do we do now that there’s more in the newsfeed than we can possibly read? Can the algorithmic sample ever actually work, or do we swing back to […]

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The autonomy economy. 

Last year, a16z partner Benedict Evans published Cars and second order consequences, which digs into the idea of what happens after all cars are autonomous and electric. This series of videos by fellow a16z partner Frank Chen digs into each theme in turn: […]

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Smart homes and vegetable peelers. 

Benedict Evans addresses a few questions here, but I consider the most interesting to be the scale problem of voice as a platform. How do you even know what you can and can’t ask Alexa? “The ideal number of skills […]