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Episode 105 — The Most Political

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto, the problem with regulation, and why Facebook needs exactly that. Presented by MailChimp Links Mark Zuckerberg: Building Global Community — Facebook Ben Thompson: Manifestos and Monopolies — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Inspired Media — Stratechery James Allworth: Founders and Motivation — Stratechery The Ezra Klein Podcast: Tim Wu’s Interesting, Unusual, Fascinating Life — Panoply Hosts Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review Podcast Information Feed iTunes SoundCloud Twitter Feedback Presented by MailChimp

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0:00.0

Hi, James.

0:01.1

Ben, how are you?

0:03.3

I'm good. How are you?

0:04.7

I'm doing all right, thanks. I'm doing all right.

0:07.3

I had the pleasure of something that I don't normally get to do, which is like getting to speak to all the Stratory members on a daily update and getting to say, I told you so, which doesn't happen very often.

0:21.0

Well, usually we restrict your I Told You So's to the podcast, which we will get to in a moment.

0:26.7

But yes, you did right for the day that this week.

0:28.8

There is a link in the show notes for it was a daily update, which is usually for pay,

0:32.8

but there is a link in the show notes to a free version of that for folks to check it out,

0:37.1

which, but we'll get to it in a moment.

0:38.8

For now, I want to think MailChimp for sponsoring this version of this version, this episode of Exponent, as they do every week.

0:46.2

Mailchimp has been around this 2001.

0:48.3

The company started as a side project funded by various web development jobs.

0:51.9

Now they're the world's leading email marketing platform,

0:56.2

and they send more than a billion emails away.

0:58.1

Billion emails a day.

1:00.8

MailChimp democratizes technology for small businesses,

1:03.1

creating innovative products that empower our customers to grow.

1:04.9

And as I've said all along,

1:07.6

this sponsorship is particularly meaningful to me because MailChimp is the provider that I use for trajectory.

1:10.2

So our thanks to MailChimp for sponsoring Exponent.

1:12.7

Awesome. So this week, I thought we talked about a new topic on Exponent.

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