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Benedict Evans

Independent analyst, Benedict Evans

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Benedict Evans is an independent analyst who writes essays, a weekly newsletter, and presentations about mobile, media, and technology, including recent essays on AI tools, token pricing, and AI job exposure. Benedict's Newsletter picks out the week's tech changes and ideas and gives them context and analysis, with a premium edition that adds a column and archive access. Before working independently, Benedict Evans worked in equity research, strategy, consulting, and venture capital.123

At a glance

Current role
Independent analyst
Sector
Independent
Education
Cambridge
Work listed
2
Sources cited
4
Profile reviewed

Career

Evans describes 25 years of analyzing mobile, media and technology, with earlier work in equity research, strategy, consulting and venture capital before becoming an independent analyst. Evans frames the work as trying to work out which questions to ask about what is happening in tech and what it might mean. In recent years Evans has given presentations for companies including Alphabet, Amazon, Deutsche Telekom, Hitachi, Nasdaq, Verizon and Vodafone.14

Channel and publications

Evans's website publishes essays on questions Evans is trying to understand. Essays from 2026 include "Predicting AI job exposure", on attempts to score jobs and industries by their exposure to AI, "Ways to think about token pricing", on how supply, demand and prices for AI models may settle, and "AI, tools and transformation", on whether AI will turn everyone into a builder of their own software.2

Benedict's Newsletter is a weekly email that selects the tech changes and ideas of the week and adds context and analysis. A premium edition arrives on Sunday evenings with an extra column and access to an archive of more than 600 issues, while the free edition carries the core news two days later.3

Twice a year Evans produces a long presentation on macro and strategic trends in the technology industry. The series began with "Mobile is Eating the World" in 2013 and, since 2024, has carried the title "AI eats the world"; the Spring 2026 edition was presented at the SuperAI conference.4

Work and contributions

  • Benedict's Newsletter Show, channel or publication

    Writes a weekly newsletter of tech news with context and analysis.3

  • Essays and presentations Show, channel or publication

    Writes essays on technology questions, including AI, and gives presentations drawing on them.21

Timeline

  1. Released the presentation "Mobile is Eating the World", repeated in 2015 and 2016.4
  2. Released the presentation "Ten Year Futures".4
  3. Released the presentation "The End of the Beginning".4
  4. Released the presentation "The Great Unbundling".4
  5. Released the presentation "The New Gatekeepers".4
  6. Released the presentation "AI and Everything Else".4
  7. Began the "AI eats the world" presentation series, updated in spring and autumn.4
  8. Released the Spring 2026 edition of "AI eats the world" and presented it at SuperAI.42

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References

4 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026

  1. About & Contact — Benedict EvansBenedict Evans · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  2. Benedict EvansBenedict Evans · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  3. Benedict's NewsletterBenedict Evans · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  4. Presentations — Benedict EvansBenedict Evans · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026