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slash disclosures. Welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Michael Copeland.

After the smartphone, what business has the global scale in terms of people and profits

that make it attractive for tech companies to turn their attention and capital towards?

The answer, according to A16Z's Benedict Evans, is the car business. Yes, Benedict is our mobile expert and sure

cars are mobile, but what does your iPhone have to do with your ride? More than you might expect,

Evans says. Evans offers his vision of the future of cars and perhaps the future of today's

biggest technology companies.

Who will build these cars, who will own them, and who or what will do the driving in this

segment of the A16Z podcast.

Benedict, welcome.

Hello.

Let's talk about what cars on mobile have to do with each other, what cars in the

smartphone industry have to do with each other, what cars in the smartphone industry

have to do with each other, and what even brought this subject to mind for you?

Well, what brought it to mind is that Apple and Google are getting into the car business,

and Tesla is in the car business as a technology company, and Uber is in the car business as well,

and obviously we have an investment in Lyft as well.

And so cars and technology are sort of colliding in a way that mobile phones and technology

collided seven, eight years ago and other things have collided in the past.

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