Episode 157 — Clumping and Clustering

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

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4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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James and Ben talk about the connection between Jobs to be Done and Aggregation Theory, why the consumer and enterprise markets are so different, and discomfort with big companies like Google. Links Ben Thompson: Aggregators and Jobs-to-be-Done — Stratechery Ben Thompson: The Scooter Economy — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Aggregation Theory — Stratechery Ben Thompson: The Jobs TV Does — Stratechery Ben Thompson: The State of Technology at the End of 2018 — Stratechery Ben Thompson: What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Data Factories — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Slack versus Teams — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Antitrust, the App … Continue reading Episode 157 — Clumping and Clustering

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0:00.0	Hi, James.
0:01.0	Ben, how are you?
0:02.4	You know, I wonder if there was trepidation if the return was going to be a one-time event,
0:06.9	especially because the following week we were not there.
0:10.6	Yes, and well, I guess the answer to that is here we are.
0:14.7	So here we are.
0:16.0	Hopefully, we may be interrupted.
0:18.0	So this is actually kind of a funny story.
0:19.8	We're starting a bit late because there is a basketball court right behind my house.
0:24.4	There's a park outside my window, which is great.
0:27.2	It's beautiful.
0:27.7	I have a nice view.
0:29.2	And right now it's winter.
0:30.3	And so they are apparently replacing the pavement on the basketball court.
0:33.2	Unfortunately, that means they have to first take up all the old pavement on the basketball court.
0:36.5	So there's one of those pile driver things just going nuts.
0:38.9	And so we were scheduled to record.
0:40.3	I'm like, this isn't going to happen.
0:41.8	So I go down there and I talk to the guy, I'm like, you know, because they usually take a lunch break, but go, you know, we're going to take a rest.
0:46.9	He's like, oh, at 12 o'clock. after this. Can I figure this out? But I remembered as I was walking away from him, I kind of
0:55.3	heard the engine kind of wheezing as he's trying to start it back up after talking to me.
0:58.8	And then I got back to my house. I'm like, you know what? That engine never started back up.
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