Interview

January 4, 2021

“Everyone can now create this stuff”(even Europe)

Mosaic's Benedict Evans calls the end of the American internet and the globalisation of the Silicon Valley startup model.


John Thornhill

5 min read

Benedict Evans

Anyone needing a shot of positivity following this dispiriting Covid-plagued year should jump on a Zoom call with Benedict Evans. The fast-talking tech analyst, who last year returned to the UK after five years with Andreessen Horowitz on the West Coast, is fizzing with the conviction that tech is going to change pretty much everything in our world as smartphones have become ubiquitous. 

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John Thornhill

John Thornhill is Sifted’s editorial director and cofounder. He is also innovation editor of the Financial Times, and tweets from @johnthornhillft

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