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Episode 125 β€” The Super-Aggregators

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 β€’ 832 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 22 September 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

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 β€” Stratechery Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach β€˜Jew Haters’ β€” ProPublica Ben Thompson: Inspired Media β€” Stratechery James Allworth: Technology Has Become Water β€” Medium Sheryl Sandberg on Facebook Advertising Changes β€” Facebook Dollar Shave Club and the Disruption of Everything β€” Stratechery Ben Thompson: Everything is Changing; So Should Antitrust β€” Stratechery Hosts Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review Podcast Information Feed iTunes SoundCloud … Continue reading Episode 125 β€” 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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