EP 17: Benedict Evans on State of Tech, and Alexis Gay on the Risk in Leaving it All Behind for Comedy

0:30 – Traveling 2:51 – Welcome Ben Evans 11:07 – Past and Future of Tech 30:06 – Elon and Twitter 39:43 – What’s Really Regulated 57:52 – Welcome Alexis Gay 59:56 – From Tech to Comedy 1:02:58 – Twitter Experience 1:14:08 – Breaking Into YouTube 1:23:28 – Importance of Structure 1:29:12 – Starting Podcasting 1:33:04 – Redefining Success 1:37:34 – Figuring Out What Works 1:45:24 – Getting a Fund 1:49:23 – The Tech Ecosystem Executive Producer: Rashad AssirProducer: Leah ClapperMixing and editing: Justin Hrabovsky Check out Unsupervised Learning, Redpoint's AI Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@UCUl-s_Vp-Kkk_XVyDylNwLA 🎥 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCugS0jD5IAdoqzjaNYzns7w?sub_confirmation=1 Follow on Socials 📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theloganbartlettshow📱 X - https://twitter.com/loganbartshow🎬 Clips on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@theloganbartlettshow About the ShowLogan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.Tap follow and enable notifications to stay ahead of the game.