14: Pouring Champagne Onto Rap Stars

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2013

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Marco visits Siracusa's house and the car-assaulting tree.
Transcendental Money.
Square Cash.
B2W 120 on financial "safety nets".
Tumblr, Yahoo, and not screwing it up.
Cloud hosting and moving up the stack.
The modern game console's role. the Xbox One's hardware design, and the messy world of TV-connected boxes.

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0:00.0	Yeah, my default is not to ever accept any invitation to do anything social.
0:05.0	So that serves me well at WBC.
0:07.0	Hey, so you had an interesting week a little bit, anything happened?
0:13.6	Where's your car?
0:14.9	That's the interesting part.
0:15.9	I don't have yet.
0:16.9	I might be getting it tomorrow or the next day or maybe this weekend.
0:21.7	It's the same BS.
0:23.0	Oh, it's in transit, you know.
0:25.5	So yeah, anything else happened?
0:29.0	Yeah, I guess Tumblr sold.
0:31.4	So you hear?
0:32.4	So I hear, yeah.
0:34.4	Any thoughts on that?
0:36.3	Yeah, I mean, you know, I don't want to rehash my blog post too much,
0:40.5	but I mean, what do you want to know?
0:44.0	Like, I don't know where should I even begin?
0:46.7	There's a lot to cover there.
0:48.7	There's practical aspects of who they're selling to,
0:54.0	what they might be doing, why they might have sold,
0:56.3	why this is good or bad, what this means for Tumblr,
0:59.3	what this means for me, what this means for you,
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