Episode 041 – Bubbles
Exponent
Ben Thompson / James Allworth
4.6 • 832 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2015
⏱️ 59 minutes
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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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