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**Exponent**

A podcast about tech and society, hosted by Ben Thompson and James Allworth

Latest Episodes:

Episode 098 — Shattered Glass Dec 16, 2016

Show notes

Ben and James discuss real estate and Opendoor, and the types of startups that will succeed in the future.

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Links

Ben Thompson: Opendoor: A Startup Worth Emulating — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Zillow Acquires Trulia — Stratechery Daily Update
Ben Thompson: Google Self-Driving Cars = Waymo — Stratechery Daily Update
Ben Thompson: Google, Uber, and the Evolution of Transportation-As-A-Service — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Aggregation Theory — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Netflix and the Conservation of Attractive Profits — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: The State of Technology at the End of 2016 — Stratechery

Hosts

Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery
James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review

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Episode 097 — Google Versus AWS Dec 02, 2016

Show notes

Ben and James discuss cloud computing and why Google fell behind AWS, and how the company is taking a very wise strategy in catching up.

Note: Due to a recording error Ben’s track quality is poor. Our apologies.

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Links

Ben Thompson: How Google is Challenging AWS — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Amazon Re:Invent, Google vs AWS vs IBM vs Microsoft — Stratechery Daily Update
Steve Yegge: Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant — Google Plus
Ben Thompson: The Amazon Tax — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Apple’s Organizational Crossroads — Stratechery
Transcript: @Chamath At StrictlyVC’s Insider Series — Semil Shah Blog
Ben Thompson: Docker and the Integrated Open-Source Company — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Peak Google — Stratechery

Hosts

Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery
James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review

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Episode 096 — Sins of Commission and Omission Nov 18, 2016

Show notes

Ben and James discuss the fake news epidemic on Facebook, from its structural causes to its effects. Then, Facebook committed sins of omission; the tech industry ought not do the same.

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Links

Ben Thompson: Fake News — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Aggregation Theory — Stratechery
How Teens In The Balkans Are Duping Trump Supporters With Fake News — BuzzFeed
Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me’ — Washington Post
Ben Thompson: Friction — Stratechery
Viral Fake Election News Outperformed Real News On Facebook In Final Months Of The US Election — BuzzFeed
I’m a Coastal Elite From the Midwest: The Real Bubble is Rural America — Roll Call

Hosts

Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery
James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review

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Episode 095 — The Backlash Has Arrived Nov 11, 2016

Show notes

Ben and James discuss the Trump election, filter bubbles, and the responsibility of the tech industry.

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Links

Ben Thompson: Donald Trump is the President-Elect, Tech Under Trump, The Big Picture — Stratechery Daily Update
Episode 085: Ballots and Guillotines — Exponent
Ben Thompson: The Brexit Possibility — Stratechery
James Allworth: Brexit, Trump, and the Ultimatum Game — Medium
Ben Thompson: The Voters Decide — Stratechery
“Day One in Trump’s America” — Twitter Moments
Kim-Mai Cutler: “The best way to have the stickiest and most lucrative product? Be a systematic tool for confirmation bias.” — Twitter
Ben Thompson: Facebook and Filter Bubbles — Stratechery Daily Update
The Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded — New York Times

Hosts

Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery
James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review

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Episode 094 — Should Apple Buy Netflix? Nov 04, 2016

Show notes

Ben and James discuss when acquisitions make sense, why Apple shouldn’t buy Tesla, and debate whether they should or should not buy Netflix.

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Links

Ben Thompson: Apple Should Buy Netflix — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Why Apple Shouldn’t Buy Netflix — Stratechery Daily Update
Ben Thompson: Best — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: It’s a Tesla — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Netflix and Aggregation Theory — Stratechery Daily Update
The Netflix Backlash: Why Hollywood Fears a Content Monopoly — Hollywood Reporters
Ben Thompson: Netflix’s Earnings —Stratechery Daily Update
Ben Thompson: Everything as a Service — Stratechery
Steve Blank: Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple — SteveBlank.com

Hosts

Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery
James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review

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Episode 093 — The Disruption of Everything Oct 21, 2016

Show notes

Ben and James discuss the difference between the IT era and the Internet Revolution, first in the context of newspapers and then in the context of society broadly.

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Links

Jack Shafer: What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake? — Politico
Ben Thompson: The IT Era and the Internet Revolution — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Snapchat Changes Publisher Monetization — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: The Sports Linchpin — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: TV Advertising’s Surprising Strength — and Inevitable Fall — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Friction — Stratechery
Barack Obama, Neural Nets, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of the World — Wired
Heidi N Moore: “Nick Denton says he’s one of few who believe internet will improve the world. “Anyone else?” Only @jeffjarvis and @jayrosen_nyu raise hands” — Twitter

Hosts

Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery
James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review

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Episode 092 — Defining Consumerization of IT Oct 14, 2016

Show notes

Ben and James discuss what Consumerization of IT means in the context of Workplace by Facebook, Skype Teams, and Slack.

Note: This podcast originally had a dead spot at the 8:13 mark. It has been fixed. To update please delete the podcast and re-download.

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Links

Ben Thompson: Chat and the Consumerization of IT — Stratechery
David Moschella, Doug Neal, Piet Opperman, John Taylor: The ‘Consumerization’ of Information Technology — CSC
Ben Thompson: What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong — Stratechery
John Gruber: Blackberry vs iPhone — Daring Fireball
Peter Bright: Going all-in: Ars interviews Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer — Ars Technica
Ben Thompson: Airbnb and the Internet Revolution — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Workplace by Facebook — Stratechery Daily Update

Hosts

Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery
James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review

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Episode 091 — Google’s New Business Model Oct 07, 2016

Show notes

Ben and James discuss the history of Android and why Google’s new phone signifies such a profound shift for the company.

Presented by MailChimp

Links

Farhad Manjoo: MailChimp and the Un-Silicon
Valley Way to Make It as a Start-Up — The New York Ttimes
Ben Thompson: The Android Detour — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: The Truth About Windows Versus the Mac — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: The State of Consumer Technology at the End of 2014 — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Google’s Go-to-Market Gap — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Why Google’s Pixel-Android Strategy is Smart, Samsung Buys Viv, Google Home — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Peak Google — Stratechery

Hosts

Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery
James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review

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Episode 090 — Fashionable to Be Cynical Sep 30, 2016

Show notes

Ben and James follow-up on Facebook versus the media, and then dive into Spectacles and what makes for a compelling product.

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Links

Ben Thompson: Facebook Tweetstorm — Twitter
Ben Thompson: How the Snap Spectacles Story Broke, Facebook Overestimated Video Metric — Stratechery Daily Update
Ben Thompson: Economic Power in the Age of Abundance — Stratechery
Warren Buffett: 1991 Letter to Shareholders — Berkshire Hathaway
Ben Thompson: Snapchat Spectacles and the Future of Wearables — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Snapchat’s Ladder — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Facebook, Phones, and Phonebooks — Stratechery
Seth Stevenson: Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles — Wall Street Journal
Full transcript: Benchmark general partner Bill Gurley on Recode Decode — Recode
Ben Thompson: Does Uber Have a Strategy Problem? — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Obsoletive — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Apple Watch = Health and Fitness — Stratechery