Episode 030 – Xiaomi

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Ben and James discuss Xiaomi’s ambition to own the home, why we’re frustrated with patents, why the West is unfair to the developing world, and what makes China unique. Links Jordan Lewis: Exponent Bingo – Twitter Ben Thompson: Xiaomi’s Ambition – Stratechery Ben Thompson: Handicapping the Internet of Things – Stratechery When Charles Dickens fell out with America – BBC To Live (The film about the Cultural Revolution) – Wikipedia Hosts Ben Thompson, @monkbent, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review Podcast Information Feed iTunes SoundCloud Twitter Feedback

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0:00.0	Hi, James.
0:01.3	Ben, how are you?
0:03.0	I'm good.
0:04.0	A long time, no talk to.
0:05.5	Happy New Year.
0:06.7	How was the break?
0:07.9	It was good.
0:08.7	I felt a little sheepish because I felt like everyone was doing like double podcasts over the break, which seemed odd to me.
0:14.5	Oh, well, they've made up for our absence.
0:17.3	I hope everyone listening doesn't mind too much that we took a little bit of time off.
0:21.6	Yeah. Well, I mean, it's kind of weird because, I don't know, I mean, like, it's now that this is my job, but I don't know.
0:32.6	This is one of the challenges I think of doing anything like this or being self-employed.
0:38.0	Like, just thinking about like, when do I take days off?
0:40.2	Because, like, you always feel really guilty.
0:41.8	And it's like, well, there's a bunch of people that sign up over Christmas, right?
0:44.7	Like a gift thing where secretary members could give gifts to other people.
0:47.7	Like, well, they just all got these new memberships and I'm not actually, you know, I'm only doing two a week. And then other people are like, why are you still writing over Christmas?
0:55.1	You're doing two a week.
0:55.8	I'm like, well.
0:57.1	You should put in a PTO request to your boss.
1:01.3	No, I think about just like putting something down on paper.
1:04.3	Like I feel and just like sticking it on like the membership page, like I'm going to take this many days off a year. And it's not, it's more for like myself to make
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