Episode 125 — The Super-Aggregators

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Ben and James discuss the different levels of aggregation, Facebook and Russian ads, and why it’s worth defending the future. Presented by MailChimp Links Ben Thompson: The Super-Aggregators and the Russians — Stratechery Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters’ — ProPublica Ben Thompson: Inspired Media — Stratechery James Allworth: Technology Has Become Water — Medium Sheryl Sandberg on Facebook Advertising Changes — Facebook Dollar Shave Club and the Disruption of Everything — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Everything is Changing; So Should Antitrust — Stratechery Hosts Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review Podcast Information Feed iTunes SoundCloud … Continue reading Episode 125 — The Super-Aggregators

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0:00.0	Hi, James. Ben, how are you?
0:03.1	I'm doing okay. It's a day early, an hour early. I'm going to power through here, but I'm doing fine. How are you?
0:10.0	I'm good. I heard the familiar sound of the long coffee pour before we started recording. So I have faith in your ability to come good.
0:19.9	That's right, because we've been recording later in the day than before, but this is
0:23.3	an old school early in the morning.
0:25.1	Let's see when the coffee kicks in 20 minutes in podcast, so we'll see how it goes.
0:29.0	Yeah, there were the ones in the middle of the day where I'd hear the poor, and I wasn't
0:32.9	sure whether it was coffee or whiskey at the prospect of having to talk to me for an hour.
0:37.2	I have no comment.
0:39.9	I do have a sponsor, though, which is MailChimp.
0:42.4	Mailchimp is the longtime sponsor of Exponent, the only sponsor.
0:46.3	Milchip is the world's largest marketing automation platform.
0:49.7	With 15 million customers from small ecommerce shops to big online retailers, You can use MailChimp to reach customers and grow your business.
0:57.3	Get started for free at melchimp.com.
1:00.1	MailChimp, build your brand, sell more stuff.
1:02.4	And our thanks to Melchimp for sponsoring exponent.
1:04.9	Indeed.
1:05.4	Thank you, guys.
1:07.1	So I thought we, today we have to come up with a way to work our way into talking about aggregation
1:13.9	and Facebook, which are...
1:16.6	I wouldn't say there are new topics on X-Won-It, to say the least.
1:21.3	That's probably a fair character.
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