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Every book Benedict Evans recommended on podcasts
Books recommended by Benedict Evans
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K.
Discussed“but in the UK what supermarkets do is sell books at a loss to drive footfall and so when back when have enough people know how to read here apparently yeah say back when Harry Potter was the big thing”
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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Discussed“I read a blog post it's called what does Google need in mobile and the analogy that I used is this book written by French academic called Pierre Bay are just a sort of slightly facetious title of how to talk about books you haven't read”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| a16z Podcast | Everything You Need to Know About Amazon | a16z Podcast | 2019-01-02 | 1 |
| a16z Podcast | For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy | a16z Podcast | 2019-01-02 | 1 |
Other mentions (4: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing A Confederacy of Dunces
“I Googled crazy fat guy in New Orleans novel and I got a Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole.”
Passing The Code of the Woosters
“this is sort of a quote from PG woodhouse for a character who thinks his fiancee it's been stolen from him says that when he catches this man he'll pull him inside out and make him swallow himself”
Plugged WTF
“I'm Benedict Evans and we have Tim O'Reilly on today here to talk about his new book among other things so your book is called WTF and it kind of it follows an arc talking about platforms in general but then instead of flowing through to kind of the broader impact have had these companies interact with us all and”
Plugged WTF
“well that sounds like a good way of describing the book how can we make the world a better place WTF is out now thank you very much for you”