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Episode 064 — Disrupting Trump

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2016

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss the Donald Trump and inequality, then FANG, Aggregation Theory, and Disruption. This episode is sponsored by Wealthfront. See recommended portfolios and get up to $15,000 managed for free by visiting Wealthfront.com/exponent. Links Michael Brendan: How an Obscure Adviser to Pat Buchanan Predicted the Wild Trump Campaign in 1996 — The Week John Gruber and Phil Schiller: Live From WWDC 2015, with Special Guest Phil Schiller — The Talk Show Ben Thompson: The FANG Playbook — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Netflix and the Conservation of Attractive Profits — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Netflix Goes Global — Stratechery Daily Update … Continue reading Episode 064 — Disrupting Trump

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0:00.0

Hi, James.

0:00.8

Ben, how are you?

0:03.0

Pretty terrible.

0:05.0

Why is that?

0:07.5

Well, we are off to a very late start on recording.

0:12.3

Why is that?

0:14.4

Well, first I pushed you off because if we could start recording, a little later, I had a little trouble getting out of bed.

0:22.2

And when I got out of bed and the movement started,

0:24.5

that's when the trouble began.

0:26.4

There's this famous methodology from Toyota.

0:29.1

I think it's called the seven whys.

0:30.8

And I think I'm going to keep going down this path.

0:33.8

And why is that?

0:35.6

No, we need to keep this clean uh well um i had my my what is perhaps

0:41.8

one of my favorite meals last night which is or yesterday lunch actually which is which is

0:45.8

spicy hot pot and then uh you know had had some drinks last night and it's just it's let's just let's

0:52.6

get going with the podcast okay we'll just do three wise um uh we

0:56.7

we have someone to thank before we go any further and that is wealth front they're an automated

1:00.7

investment service built for the modern era and it's making it easier than ever to invest your money

1:05.8

well how do they do it well wealthfront uses software instead of retail locations, salespeople, and so on,

1:11.1

so it can offer sophisticated investment advice at low costs that were previously impossible.

1:16.8

It's exploded in popularity in the last two years, and they now have more than $2.5 billion

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