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Episode 154 — Legacy Leverage

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub. Note: This is the last episode of the season; Exponent will return in the fall Presented by WordPress.com: Get 15% off on a new site by visiting WordPress.com/Exponent. Links Ben Thompson: The Cost of Developers — Stratechery Ben Thompson: The End of Windows — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Redmond and Reality — 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.

0:01.2

Ben, how are you?

0:03.0

Not too well, not too well.

0:04.1

I am pretty under the weather, so hopefully I can power through this podcast, doing it for the people.

0:09.9

But other than I'm doing okay.

0:11.1

Back in Taiwan.

0:12.1

Was it the flight back?

0:13.1

What happened?

0:14.1

No, no.

0:14.7

I was coming down with something kind of a bummer because I spent the last few days

0:21.2

just moping in my hotel room. I was worried about the flight, but the flight ended up going,

0:25.6

okay, I made it back, I'm pumped full of medicine, and ready to do a podcast. Yeah, I have to say

0:30.7

traveling while being sick is the worst, but I'm glad you made it back, okay. Thank you. And I had to make it back because this is our last podcast

0:38.8

for a while anyway. Next week, I'm going back to America. So this is the reason I need to get better now

0:43.7

with the family as I do every summer and podcasting is a little bit difficult. We may have a podcast

0:48.9

over the summer. That's the great thing about RSS is it'll pop up in your feed if we do. But for now, the plan is this is the last

0:55.4

of sort of the regular weekly cadence until the next season. We better make it count then,

0:59.2

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1:04.8

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1:09.4

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1:13.9

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1:14.8

They guide you through the process from start to finish and take care of the technical side to get your site up and running.

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