Episode 115 — Business Matters

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss Google I/O, the importance of business relative to technology, and why Uber is in trouble. Presented by MailChimp Links Ben Thompson: Boring Google — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Google’s Go-to-Market — Stratechery How Uber and Waymo Ended Up Rivals in the Race for Driverless Cars — New York Times Ben Thompson: Does Uber Have a Strategy Problem? — 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. Ben, how are you? I'm okay. How are you? I'm doing well. Summer's starting to come to San Francisco. Carl the Fog is coming out.
0:13.0	So I couldn't understand you. What did you say? Summer is starting to come. Start again. I could not understand you.
0:21.4	So we're just starting again.
0:25.9	Was that because of Skype or is that because you couldn't understand a word of what I said?
0:27.1	I couldn't understand what you said.
0:29.5	It was a combination of accent and mumble.
0:30.2	I wasn't quite sure.
0:31.7	Wow.
0:32.9	What is coming to San Francisco?
0:34.1	Summer.
0:35.5	Yeah, but after that.
0:37.7	Carl the fog is coming out. Oh, but after that. Carl the fog is coming out.
0:38.6	Oh, Carl.
0:39.0	Okay.
0:42.0	Right, you need to hang around with more Australians.
0:45.8	We chop our words in half because we're just so lazy when it comes to... Like our own country, we call it Australia because we can't be bothered to say the first couple of syllables.
0:50.6	Now I kind of want to include this part.
0:52.6	Our thanks to MailChimp for sponsor, how do you say Melchimp?
0:56.6	Mailchimp?
0:57.7	Wow.
0:58.8	See when money's on the line, your articulation is perfect.
1:02.4	I see how it goes.
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