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Episode 107 — Smiling Curves and Self-Driving Cars

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss the concept of The Smiling Curve and how it applies to various industries. Then, where value might be found in self-driving cars, and why both Uber and Google are getting it wrong. Presented by MailChimp Links Ben Thompson: Aggregation Theory — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Publishers and the Smiling Curve — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Intel, Mobileye, and Smiling Curves — Stratechery Episode 012: The Internet Rainforest — Exponent “After SO many years of being lost, we finally have Aaliyah’s performance of ‘Try Again’ on Jay Leno. This is RARE as fuck.” — Twitter Hosts Ben Thompson, @benthompson, … Continue reading Episode 107 — Smiling Curves and Self-Driving Cars

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0:00.0

Hi, James. Ben, how are you? Good, long time we'll talk to. It has been a little while. I missed you.

0:07.8

Well, well, thank you. I missed you as well. You threw me off. I didn't know. I was disarming. I was

0:16.6

sorry. I don't even know where to go next. Why don't we thank some folks that have been helping us every week, and we missed last week as well.

0:27.1

Thanks to MailChimp for sponsoring Expoena.

0:30.4

Mailchip sponsors every episode of Expoena.

0:32.3

They've been around since 2001.

0:33.7

The company started as a side project funded by various web development jobs. Now they are actually

0:38.7

the world's leading email marketing platform and sending more than a billion emails a day. MailChimp

0:43.5

democratizes technology for small business, creating innovative products that empower their customers

0:48.4

to grow. So my thanks to MailChimp. And I actually, I'm pleased that we have MailChimp as a sponsor for this particular

0:56.1

episode because I think they're actually an example of something that we're going to

1:01.8

get into in this podcast.

1:03.6

That was a pretty excellent segue.

1:06.1

From the rate, no less, I'm impressed.

1:09.3

Well, thank you.

1:10.0

I have to save my dignity after being so completely,

1:15.3

yeah, disarmed at the beginning there.

1:17.9

More than made up for it.

1:20.5

So, so, so what's like, well, let's talk about Melchimp. This isn't going to be a podcast.

1:24.2

This is going to be the best, you know, the best sponsorship dollars ever.

1:27.3

But Melchimp is, you know, the best sponsorship dollars ever.

1:33.1

But MailChimp is, you know, it's interesting because I write a lot about things like,

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