Mobile Is Eating the World
There is no point in drawing a distinction between the future of technology and the future of mobile. They are the same. In other words, technology is now outgrowing the tech industry.
View ArticleHow Mobile is Enabling Tech to Outgrow the Tech Industry
Here is the full audio and visuals of Benedict Evans’ presentation on the future of mobile (which happens also to be the future of tech). The talk was delivered at a16z’s 2014 Tech Summit. WATCH: 13...
View Articlea16z Podcast: Selling Tech to Everyone — Changes Everything
It’s always hard to predict how a generational shift in technology will impact the wider world, especially when you are in the trenches building that new technology. It happened with the mainframe...
View ArticleWhere Do Mobile Numbers Come From?
I post numbers like these from time to time, because I find them interesting and other people sometimes find them useful. Every time I do people ask me for the source, and my answer is generally 'my...
View Articlea16z Podcast: Mobile is Eating the World — and Apple is Gobbling the Fastest
Apple absolutely crushed its most recent quarter, and unquestionably owns the high-end of the smartphone market, says a16z’s Benedict Evans. So where does Android fit in the ecosystem going forward?...
View ArticleWhat Happens When the Smartphone — Not PC — Supply Chain Dominates?
For the last 30 years PCs and the PC supply chain dominated the technology industry, and PCs and their components were used for all sorts of things that weren't actually personal computers --...
View ArticleMobile: It Changes Everything
We’ve shared a lot of data about whether and why ‘this time is different’. But beyond that, why is the tech market opportunity larger than any time in history (no, really!)? One word: mobile. In...
View ArticleThis is a Tale of Two Irans
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment in a special series on tech startups in Iran, part of a larger theme around global tech and how software — including mobile — is eating the world … and...
View Articlea16z Podcast: Layering Tech and Culture in Iran
In this special international edition of the a16z Podcast, Nazanin Daneshvar, co-founder and CEO of Takhfifan, the “Groupon of Iran”, shares her experiences and broader observations about the...
View Articlea16z Podcast: Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
In this special international edition of the a16z Podcast, Mohsen Malayeri, co-founder of Avatech — one of the more prominent startup accelerators in Iran among many (much like YCombinator in the...
View ArticleThe Smartphone Is the New Sun
What all those people pay for data, and how they charge their phones, may be a challenge, but the smartphone itself is close to a universal product for humanity -- the first the tech industry has ever...
View ArticleMobile Is Eating the World, 2014 (slides only)
[slideshare id=40841467&doc=201410wsjdbe-141028165857-conversion-gate01] There is no point in drawing a distinction between the future of technology and the future of mobile. They are the same. In...
View ArticleMobile Is Eating the World, 2014 (with talk track)
[vimeo 110428014 w=720 h=404] Here is the full audio and visuals of Benedict Evans' presentation on the future of mobile (which happens also to be the future of tech). The talk was delivered at...
View ArticleMobile Is Eating the World, 2016
watch time: 32 minutes [slides-only version below] We already know mobile is eating the world as we pass 2.5 billion smartphones on earth and head towards 5 billion. And not only is the s-curve of...
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