Episode 107 — Smiling Curves and Self-Driving Cars

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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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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