Episode 153 — Black Holes

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Ben and James continue their discussion on why aggregators and platforms are different and why it matters for big companies, competitors, and regulators. Presented by WordPress.com: Get 15% off on a new site by visiting WordPress.com/Exponent. Links Ben Thompson: The Bill Gates Line — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Manifestos and Monopolies — Stratechery Ben Thompson: The Case Against Google — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: Why Facebook Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Buy tbh — Stratechery Hosts Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review Podcast Information Feed iTunes SoundCloud Twitter Feedback Presented by WordPress.com

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0:00.0	Hi, James.
0:01.3	Ben, how are you?
0:02.8	I am doing okay.
0:03.7	It is summer is here, both in terms of the weather and also the kids' school is wrapping up.
0:08.0	Fortunately, I feel very grateful to her current school.
0:10.6	They had a fifth grade celebration.
0:12.5	So at the school, she goes to fifth grade is the end of what they call lower school or elementary school and going to middle school next year.
0:17.7	And thank goodness there's no fifth grade graduation because I'm telling you the graduation thing is out of control.
0:23.4	I was trying to raise jail with her front.
0:24.8	He's like, oh, sorry, my daughter is preschool graduation.
0:27.4	I'm like, what?
0:28.2	What?
0:28.8	Like, it is out of control.
0:30.5	You don't understand this.
0:31.4	You don't have kids.
0:31.8	One day you'll see the graduation scourge is a real problem, but I would just like to salute my daughter's school.
0:41.4	A celebration is fine. A celebration is okay. You have one graduation, and that's when you graduate from high school. It was funny when you were mentioning this, you didn't mention your daughter
0:46.4	until right then. I just heard her, and I was like, is this a her reference or are we talking
0:51.4	about something else?
0:53.7	No, it is not our reference.
0:55.0	But on that point, given that summer is nearly here, we usually take a bit of a recess
0:59.0	over the summer.
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