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A16Z.com forward slash disclosures. Well, it's great to be here. Thanks very much. I'm Steven Sinovsky.

And I'm Benedict Evans. And we just got back for combined excess of probably 120,000 steps or two

marathons. Yeah, I was just, I always think that the person who has the lowest step count at the end of the day has to buy the drinks.

Right. Well, the funny part is just to tell people, we actually don't see each other at all during the show.

I think we were within 100 yards of each other at some point based on what pictures we were tweeting at the same time. Right, we were tweeting, and then also we send stuff to each other just to keep track, like we both discovered some

booth of a company that didn't exist before, and we were really close by at that moment. But you

can't find anybody you know at CES anyway. So the big thing about the Consumer Electronics Show is

like, so many people are like, oh, yeah, I don't have to go this year, or, oh, it's going to be

boring, or they're there and there's like, there's nothing new. But like, why do you even go

in the first place? So I think there's kind of three or four things you see here. One of them is

there will be flagship announcements of new products that you want to see and you want to have held it and looked at it and said, well, what does this thing actually look like?

I think the second thing is you see like a sense of like, oh wow, Google's having a really

big push in everything has got Google Assistant in this year or everything has a Lexer in

or, oh wow, everyone is doing curved screens.

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