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Episode 041 – Bubbles

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode Ben and James discuss whether or not there is a bubble, as well as a bit on the Apple Watch. Please note this was recorded before the Apple Watch reviews were released. Links Ben Thompson: It’s Not 1999 – Stratechery The Unicorn List – Fortune Ben Thompson: The Multitudes of Social – Stratechery Bill Gurley: Investors Beware: Today’s $100M+ Late-stage Private Rounds Are Very Different from an IPO – Above the Crowd Turd on the Front Porch – The Talk Show Ben Thompson: Apple Watch’s Bad Messaging – Stratechery (members-only) David Pierce: iPhone Killer: The Secret … Continue reading Episode 041 – Bubbles

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0:00.0

Hi, James.

0:02.6

Ben, how are you?

0:04.5

I'm okay.

0:05.3

I might need your help a little bit, actually.

0:08.0

Oh, is that so?

0:10.3

Well, we're recording a day early, so it is Wednesday.

0:13.1

We usually record on Thursdays.

0:14.4

Or it is Tuesday night, I say, yes for you, Wednesday for me.

0:17.4

Yep.

0:18.2

And so this is the day I usually write my, my weekly article. And one thing that's

0:26.1

that, I mean, it's been a bubbling topic for, for arguably a few years now. But I think is,

0:33.0

is kind of bubbling up again. And that is the question, are we in a bubble? You know, there's

0:39.8

lots of, there's lots of inching data out there. I mean, the, the, especially I think, you know,

0:45.6

every time there's one of these really big ticket raises, whether it be Uber or Slack or

0:51.5

whatever it might be that are in the, you know, the unicorns, right?

0:55.4

There are 70-some unicorns, I think, worth you have a valuation of a billion dollars.

1:00.2

People are immediately like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

1:04.2

I don't know.

1:04.8

What do you think?

1:06.3

That's a really good question.

1:07.8

I think here's what I would say.

1:11.1

If someone offered me an opportunity to get in on,

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