Episode 106 — To Be an Outlaw

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss Uber’s recent scandals, and debate whether the company’s business actions can be separated from its culture. Presented by MailChimp Links Susan Fowler Rigetti: Reflecting on One Very, Very Strange Year at Uber — SusanJFowler.com Ben Thompson: The Uber Conflation — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Crisis at Uber, Uber’s Culture, Who is Responsible? — Stratechery Daily Update Brad Stone: The Upstarts — Hachette Book Group Ben Thompson: Tech Morality — Stratechery Daily Update 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.
0:00.9	Ben, how are you?
0:02.9	I'm doing okay.
0:03.8	How are you?
0:04.3	Yeah, I'm doing well.
0:06.2	How is the travel?
0:07.7	It was good.
0:08.7	I apologize for not warning our audience, but yes, I was traveling last week, and I will actually be traveling next week.
0:13.8	It has been an insane sort of six weeks for me, but I think this is the last trip for a while.
0:19.3	So we are recording now. We will not record next week, and then we should be back to normal after that.
0:24.4	Very good.
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0:50.3	for sponsoring exponent.
0:51.4	Yeah, really appreciate the support.
0:53.1	Awesome.
0:55.3	Someone tweeted at us, which I thought was pretty funny uh a link to uh an old episode i think it has to have been
1:01.8	going on two and a half years now that was title like you goes controversy at uber or something
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