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Mobile research, a16z, a giant newsletter — and a long-running attempt to explain the next platform shift before everyone else does.
Evans spent the dot-com era and smartphone boom analyzing technology from finance, consulting, and venture capital, built a large independent newsletter, and then carried the same platform-level method into generative AI: less 'what did the demo do?' and more 'what changes when this scales?'
1999
Evans says he began looking at technology and mobile in 1999 as a junior analyst working on technology IPOs, starting a career that would move through research, consulting, strategy, and venture capital.
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Sep 6, 2012
While at Enders Analysis, Evans published a public version of his Platform Wars work on Apple, Android, Samsung, and Facebook, turning mobile competition into the kind of ecosystem analysis that became his signature.
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2013
Evans launched his technology newsletter in 2013. It later grew into a large independent weekly briefing aimed at separating meaningful platform shifts from the industry's noise.
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Feb 2014
Evans joined Andreessen Horowitz in 2014, saying he would keep analyzing the industry publicly while also helping the firm find, understand, and support technology companies.
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Jul 2, 2023
Evans framed generative AI as a generational change in software and automation, while arguing that the important questions were about deployment, workflows, scale, and the slow machinery of real organizations.
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May 2026
By 2026, Evans's recurring strategic presentation was explicitly centered on artificial intelligence under the title AI eats the world, while his site described him as an independent analyst of technology, media, and mobile.
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