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Exponent

Episode 138 β€” A Moat Too Far

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 β€’ 832 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 27 January 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss Amazon Go and what it says about the economics of tech and how Amazon is building multiple monopolies. Presented by WordPress.com: Get 15% off on a new site by visiting WordPress.com/Exponent. Links Ben Thompson: Amazon Go and the Future β€” Stratechery Ben Thompson: The Amazon Tax β€” Stratechery Hosts Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review Podcast Information Feed iTunes SoundCloud Twitter Feedback Presented by WordPress.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, James. Ben, how are you? Running around with my hair on fire. Oh, no. Why?

0:06.2

Actually, not. That would be very disruptive to recording a podcast. Yeah. But speaking of disrupting

0:11.8

a podcast recording, I am moving. I am both, currently I have an office separate from my house,

0:17.8

and we are both moving where we live and I will actually go back to

0:21.0

working at home, but closer to the kids' school. So it is a little hectic here at

0:27.2

Schittectady HQ. Oh, wow. Did you actually manage to just use the term disruption the

0:33.0

way you described how you were going to move? I was using the more layman's disruptive term, not high disruption, as it were.

0:43.3

So the reason as an impact on exponent is next week is going to be a bit of a mess in that

0:49.3

usually the way that this works, you can peek behind the curtains, is I write a weekly article, usually on Tuesday or Wednesday, and that's usually the basis for what we discuss the following week.

0:59.1

So next week, my schedule is going to be a little disruptive because my office is moving on Tuesday.

1:04.2

So I'm actually going to be rejiggering the posting schedule for Shetcheri, which I will send out to, I'll send details to members.

1:10.2

But we are going to actually record on Tuesday before I would have written any weekly

1:13.9

article, which may or may not exist next week.

1:15.6

Daily updates will certainly will still go out.

1:18.4

So anyhow, the point is we will not have our usual topic of what to write about.

1:22.9

And because you have been a slacker and haven't been writing pieces lately.

1:25.7

Sorry.

1:26.6

Sorry.

1:27.1

Do you have to drop that?

1:28.0

No, that's good.

1:28.8

You give me shit.

1:31.4

I might leave that in there, too.

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