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Episode 123 — There Is No Going Back

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss the why it is Ben can’t stop talking about Aggregation Theory, and the future of regulation. Presented by MailChimp Links Episode 016: Naked People (James first trip to Burning Man) — Exponent Ben Thompson: Everything is Changing; So Should Antitrust — Stratechery Ben Thompson: TV Advertising’s Strength — and Inevitable Fall — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Ad Agencies and Accountability — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Paypal’s Incentive Problem — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Aggregation Theory — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Dollar Shave Club and the Disruption of Everything — Stratechery Episode 005: The World Has Changed — Exponent Ben Thompson: Antitrust and … Continue reading Episode 123 — There Is No Going Back

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, James.

0:01.4

Ben, how are you?

0:03.2

I'm good. I think the audience is wondering, how are you?

0:07.2

This is the third or fourth post-Burning Man podcast.

0:11.3

This is number four, actually.

0:13.1

I started this not long after I moved out to California.

0:16.1

There are enough people out here that were going that made me curious that that's when it all started.

0:21.2

Yeah, so if I might jump in, like, the first post-Burning Man podcast is one of the all-time

0:28.1

great exponent podcasts. So we will put a link in the show notes. If you're a relatively new listener,

0:33.3

one, like, you should go back and listen to all the podcasts because, of course, they're amazing.

0:36.4

No, but we self-reference a lot, so it's useful.

0:38.7

But two, this podcast in particular is a good one.

0:43.3

It was a lot of fun.

0:44.6

And I remember you talking to me after the second Burning Man, or actually before the

0:51.2

second Burning Man, saying something like, I wonder whether it's going to be as good as the first one,

0:56.2

because the first time you have one of these experiences,

0:58.8

it's obviously you have no frame of reference.

1:01.6

And then the second time, it's going to be much more different.

1:04.8

And the way I describe it to people is the first time you jump out of a plane

1:08.0

is the first time you jump out of a plane.

1:10.1

But after you've done it

1:10.9

a hundred times, it starts to become a little bit more normal. And I think the second year,

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