Episode 181 — Competing with Spotify and Regulating Acquisitions

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss Ben’s new Daily Update Podcast, and why Exponent is not on Spotify. Then, should regulators roll back acquisitions or prioritize the avoidance of unintended consequences? Links Ben Thompson: The Daily Update Podcast — Stratechery Ben Thompson: The Rationale Behind the Daily Update Podcast, Podcasts and Email, Spotify and the Three Bens — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: Spotify’s Podcast Aggregation Play — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Spotify Earnings, Podcasts and Lifetime Value, The Ringer Acquisition — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: First, Do No Harm — Stratechery Ben Thompson re: Facebook Acquiring Instagram in 2011: Twitter Eric … Continue reading Episode 181 — Competing with Spotify and Regulating Acquisitions

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0:00.0	Hi, James.
0:01.1	Ben, how are you?
0:02.6	I'm doing good.
0:03.6	I want to let our listeners know.
0:05.2	We had a big sort of thing about how we were hustling.
0:07.9	What was the phrase that we used about to making sure you have the podcast done?
0:11.4	Powering through.
0:12.2	You made an emergency run to Best Buy to buy a mini USB cable.
0:17.1	Longtime listeners, closely as I recall, I made a similar sojourn when I was staying in Silicon Valley.
0:22.3	And I couldn't find one.
0:23.2	I went to a Target.
0:24.1	I went to a Best Buy.
0:24.7	I went to fries and couldn't find one anywhere.
0:27.9	You did, though, successfully find one.
0:30.3	And congratulations to you.
0:31.8	Thank you for powering through.
0:33.0	Back in my hotel room in 15 minutes.
0:35.2	In a strange city, I'm recording from Austin, no less. But if there's any
0:39.2	weird background noise that anyone can hear as they're listening on my end, there's a death metal
0:44.3	band playing outside my window of my hotel room right now. So welcome to Austin and apologies for
0:51.1	the extra noise that you're getting to listen today.
0:55.9	I'm hearing nothing now, so fingers crossed.
	...

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