Slate Money - The Product Edition
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2016
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org and Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann talk the economics of 21st century products with Paul Ford (@ftrain), writer and co-founder of the digital product studio Postlight.
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Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:07.6 | Hello and welcome to the product edition of Slate Money, your guide to business and finance and product. |
| 0:20.0 | And all I can say is that you're in for a treat, |
| 0:23.3 | the one most popular guest in the entire history of Slate Money, basically the greatest |
| 0:29.9 | podcaster in the world, a man who has basically transcended mere mortality and become a product |
| 0:36.8 | in his own right is back. |
| 0:40.1 | Was that a way of saying he's a brand? |
| 0:42.5 | Mr. Paul Ford, welcome. |
| 0:45.9 | All right. |
| 0:47.7 | All right, let's do it. |
| 0:49.4 | What do you want? |
| 0:51.8 | What do you want? So Paul Ford, you may recall from the linked inin episode. If you haven't listened to the linked-in episode, go back and listen to the linked-in episode because it was an awesome episode of awesomeness. You know, I have a follow-up from that. What's? Okay. I spoke at length about how there was one person who always, I couldn't connect to no matter how many times I |
| 1:10.8 | clicked. Yeah. And I've talked about this in other media platforms, but when I did Slate Money, |
| 1:17.0 | like two days later, that bug was gone. What? What? We have power, is what you're telling us. |
| 1:23.7 | I think they didn't want me to keep talking about it anymore. They heard, they heard it. |
| 1:28.7 | So, uh, this is a show that gets things done in, in particular, it gets one guy removed from my |
| 1:34.6 | LinkedIn connection. That's, that's awesome. My life's goals are complete now. We did it. Okay. |
| 1:41.0 | So let's, so this is, this is the plan. This is the plan for this week's episode. |
| 1:46.8 | We have obviously Paul Ford, who is, for those of you who are unacquainted with him, |
| 1:53.1 | an internet-based polymath. |
| 1:56.5 | Great. |
| 1:58.9 | He also runs a place called Postlight, which does things on the internet. |
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