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Episode 080 — Multiple Full Circles

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss briefly revisit last week’s discussion on Facebook, then discuss the Peter Thiel versus Gawker affair, and the implications for tech broadly. Then, how culture helps and hurts at Facebook, Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Links Ben Thompson: The Real Problem with Facebook and the News — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Peter Thiel, Comic Book Hero — Stratechery (note: this was written after the podcast) When the Most Personal Secrets Get Outed on Facebook — Wall Street Journal Ben Thompson: The Curse of Culture — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Google’s Go-to-Market Gap — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Everything as a Service — … Continue reading Episode 080 — Multiple Full Circles

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, James. Ben, how are you?

0:02.7

I'm a little annoyed. We will make this short in case people want to turn off the podcast

0:10.2

right away. We'll make this short. But last week when I said I was nervous about the podcast,

0:15.4

I was not, I'm never nervous about talking to you. We joke about this. And I know like there's

0:19.6

a persistent rumor that,

0:21.8

uh, you know, I have you, I'm blackmailing you to continue doing this podcast with me.

0:26.6

Oh, that's not a rumor.

0:28.8

No, but in all seriousness, I'm never scared to talk to you. Like we were talking before we

0:33.2

did the podcast and, you know, so we live our lives a very rough and tumble arguing sort of way so we're

0:40.1

totally used to it yeah what i was nervous about and unfortunately i think was realized was uh the

0:46.9

i was i was frustrated by some of the feedback we got to got to got to the last episode

0:53.3

and and and i'm not never frustrated people saying i'm wrong i think i'm wrong a lot but by some of the feedback we got to, got to the last episode.

0:54.8

And,

0:56.3

and I'm not,

0:57.4

never frustrated people saying I'm wrong.

0:58.1

I think I'm wrong a lot.

1:00.2

I guess what I was,

1:00.8

uh,

1:02.5

it just with,

1:03.8

Facebook's fascinating.

1:07.8

I feel like Facebook is kind of the anti-apple in that Apple in that Apple attracts very fervent support, shall we say.

1:13.4

And the only company I feel like that matched it is Facebook attracts its very fervent detraction, if that makes sense.

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