Episode 116 — Blockchain Beauty Contest

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss myths, culture, and blockchains — and yes, bubbles. NOTE: The original version had a corrupted file. Our apologies. Presented by MailChimp Links Ben Thompson: Tulips, Myths, and Cryptocurrencies — Stratechery Abhishek Chakravarty: The Product Manager’s guide to the Blockchain — Medium Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens Fred Ehrsam: Blockchain Tokens and the dawn of the Decentralized Business Model — Coinbase Blog Greeks are Rushing to Bitcoin — CNN Facebook accused of targeting ‘insecure’ children and young people, report says — Mashable Ben Thompson: The Cost of Bitcoin — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Selling Feelings — Stratechery Hosts Ben Thompson, … Continue reading Episode 116 — Blockchain Beauty Contest

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0:00.0	Hi, James. Ben, how are you? I'm doing okay. How are you? Yeah, good for the second time round that I've said
0:07.0	hello and asked you how you're doing this morning. And me replying that I'm groggy and the coffee
0:12.7	is going to kick in and then we realize we've done that opening like 55 times in a row, so we probably
0:16.3	shouldn't do it again. This is true, but I guess this is a function of recording across the Pacific Ocean when one of
0:22.2	us is happy and functioning in the evening and the other one is getting dragged out of bed to talk to
0:27.7	everybody. Yeah, well, no one wants to hear about it again. So we will, we should probably get to it.
0:34.0	That's probably a good idea. Are things to Melchimp for sponsoring Expoena.
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0:42.8	Send an onboarding series and introduce new subscribers to your business or organization.
0:46.8	Automatically fall up with customers after purchase and recommend other products that they'll love.
0:50.0	Surprise your best customers with a coupon triggered by their shopping behavior.
0:53.2	Remind customers of the products they've left in their cart, encourage them to complete their transaction, re-engage inactive subscribers.
0:58.4	There's all sorts of things you can do by automating your marketing using MailChimp.
1:02.5	Our thanks to Melchimp for sponsoring Exponent.
1:05.1	Yep, as always.
1:06.0	Thank you, guys.
1:06.6	We appreciate it.
1:08.0	MailChimp, which runs on a decentralized protocol, known as SMTP, but email.
1:13.6	Oh, not bad, Ben. Not bad at all.
1:17.6	Well, thank you. The coffee is starting to kick in.
1:20.6	Crap, I can't use the joke, can't use it again, but it's probably true in this case.
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