How Benedict Evans Separates Tech Hype From Reality


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Benedict Evans has spent more than 20 years analysing technology, several of them as a partner at venture-capital firms including Andreessen Horowitz. Marc Bain: When you think about how to separate hype from reality in the tech world, what are you actually looking for? On the one hand, it seems like the next obsession in the tech hype cycle as money floods in. It’s like sitting down in the year 2000 and describing how the mobile internet was going to work. The tech industry is obsessed by what’s going to happen in 10 years’ time or five years’ time.