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Exponent

Episode 111 — Lamentation Not Condemnation

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss what it means if Facebook is a monopoly, what is lost if it is, and why there isn’t anything that can be done about it — for now. Presented by MailChimp Links Ben Thompson: The Facebook Epoch — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Facebook and the Cost of Monopoly — Stratechery Kurt Gessler: Facebook’s algorithm isn’t surfacing one-third of our posts. And it’s getting worse — Medium Ben Thompson: Manifestos and Monopolies — Stratechery Hosts Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review Podcast Information Feed iTunes SoundCloud Twitter Feedback Presented by MailChimp

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, James. Ben, how are you? Very comfortable. I'm very comfortable with the hi James. I feel

0:05.5

it's really in my wheelhouse. I want to keep doing it. We are back to our regular routine. It was

0:10.6

crazy how much that splitting, switching things up just through, it made me remember what it was like

0:17.2

right back at the beginning. It felt like going back to being a podcast number

0:21.9

101 or zero two all over again. Well, it is podcast one. I believe it was podcast one-one, correct?

0:28.2

That is true. That's a lot of podcasts. I know. It's crazy how it adds up when you do it every week.

0:38.1

Our thinks...

0:39.3

I forgot how to read an ad.

0:42.5

On that note, our thanks to Melchimp for sponsoring Exponant, as they do every week.

0:47.4

Speaking of every week, that's the segue I was trying to make.

0:50.8

Melchimp can help you automate your marketing to get back to work.

0:53.2

With Melchimp, you get enterprise level automation without any of the headaches.

0:56.7

For example, you can send an onboarding series of emails to introduce new subscribers

0:59.7

to your business organization.

1:01.4

You can automatically fall up with customers after a purchase and recommend other

1:04.4

products that they'll love.

1:05.1

Surprise your best customers with a coupon triggered by the shopping behavior.

1:08.5

Remind customers of products left in their car and encourage them to complete their transaction.

1:11.7

There's all sorts of things you can do with MailChimp to automate your marketing and get back to work.

1:15.5

There are things to MailChimp for sponsoring exponent.

1:18.5

You already know what I'm going to say because you made me very acutely aware of it last week.

1:24.2

Thanks, guys.

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