Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

By Andrew Sharp and Ben ThompsonTechnology

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Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson episodes

November 14, 2022 Making Sense of the FTX Catastrophe and a Reality Check on Twitter Under Musk
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Narratives — Stratechery
Tulips, Myths, and Cryptocurrencies — Stratechery
The 30-Year-Old Spending $1 Billion to Save Crypto — Wall Street Journal
Billionaire Bankman-Fried Tries to Fix Crypto’s Hacking Problem — Bloomberg
FTX’s Collapse Casts a Pall on a Philanthropy Movement — New York Times
Sam Bankman-Fried and Tom Brady — YouTube
Twitter’s ad problem is Elon Musk — Vox
Trump, Musk and Kanye Are Twitter Poisoned — New York Times
The real reason to get off Twitter — Financial Times
How the newest megadonor wants to change Washington — Politico
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1 hr 8 min
November 10, 2022 A Beginner's Guide to Spotify and Emails on Antitrust and Algorithms
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Spotify Earnings, Spotify Exclusives, Spotify vs. Apple — Stratechery Update
Spotify’s Podcast Aggregation Play — Stratechery
The European Super League, Apple Music’s Letter to Artists — Stratechery Update
This is How Much More Apple Music Pays Artists Than Spotify — 9to5Mac
A Framework for Regulating Competition on the Internet — Stratechery
DOJ blocks Penguin Random House’s takeover of Simon & Schuster — Politico
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14 min
November 07, 2022 Mailbag: Down the 230 Rabbit Hole, A Third Door Moderation Approach, Twitter Follow-Up, Andrew Responds to the Nicest Angry Emails Ever
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A New Supreme Court Case Could Fundamentally Change the Internet — Vox
A Framework for Moderation — Stratechery
Why Cloudflare Matters, The Absence of Gatekeepers, Promotion Versus Moderation — Stratechery Update
Another Congressional Hearing, The Genesis of Section 230, The Battle over Section 230 — Stratechery Update
Zero Trust Information — Stratechery
They Traded Twitter for Mastodon Social. Now What? — Washington Post
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1 hr 4 min
November 03, 2022 The First Week of New Twitter and Apple/Netflix/Taiwan Follow-Up
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Musk’s Twitter Blue; A Twitter Subscription, Revisited; Apple Earnings — Stratechery Update
Twitter Has a New CEO; What About a New Business Model? — Stratechery
Can Elon Musk Make the Math Work on Owning Twitter? It’s Dicey. — New York Times
Twitter to Pay $809.5 Million to Settle Securities Suit — Wall Street Journal
Musk Plans to Eliminate Half of Twitter Jobs to Cut Costs — Bloomberg
Apple’s privacy changes create windfall for its own advertising business — Financial Times
Spotify, Netflix, and Aggregation — Stratechery
Aggregation Follow-up, Netflix’s Ad Partners — Stratechery Update
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11 min
October 31, 2022 Mailbag: How to Read an Earnings Report, TikTok's ATT Challenges, The Net Impact of Social Media, Lessons of a Young Tech Employee
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Announcing Sharp China With Sinocism’s Bill Bishop — Stratechery
Meta Myths — Stratechery
Meta Reports Third Quarter 2022 Results — Meta Investor Relations
Instagram Reels Struggles, Meta’s Mistake, TikTok at Code — Stratechery Update
Facebook Political Problems — Stratechery
The Voters Decide — Stratechery
Why Microsoft’s Reorganization Is a Bad Idea — Stratechery
The Uncanny Valley of a Functional Organization — Stratechery
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1 hr 8 min
October 27, 2022 Google/Facebook/Snap Earnings and Another Dimension of Automation
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Snap Earnings, What Spiegel Wouldn’t Say, Snap’s Direct Sales Reset — Stratechery Update
Google Earnings, Gaming’s Warning Light, Google’s Costs — Stratechery Update
Meta Q2 Earnings, Reasons for Optimism, Meta Changes — Stratechery Update
The End of Global Order — Sam Harris
A Chinese Spy Wanted GE’s Secrets, But the US Got China’s Instead — Bloomberg
Lewis Hamilton Overtakes EVERYONE! | 2021 Sao Paulo Grand Prix — YouTube
Christian Horner CARRYING Drive To Survive for 6 minutes straight — YouTube
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11 min
October 24, 2022 Good News for Netflix Believers and the Latest TikTok Reporting
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Netflix Earnings, Netflix Doubles Down, Netflix’s Ad Tier — Stratechery Update
Why Netflix Should Sell Ads — Stratechery
Why Netflix Should Not Sell Ads, Elon Musk and Twitter — Stratechery Update
House of the Dragon and Creative Programming, The Big Ten’s Deal, Disney’s New Prices — Stratechery Update
TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens — Forbes
Leaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings Shows That US User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From China — Buzzfeed
TikTok Owner ByteDance Used A News App On Millions Of Phones To Push Pro-China Messages, Ex-Employees Say — Buzzfeed
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1 hr 1 min
October 20, 2022 Mailbag: Chip Ban Follow Up, What About Tik Tok?, Validating AI Work Product, Coaches and GMs as CEOs
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The China Chip Ban; The Logic of the Ban; Chinese Retaliation, or Not — Stratechery Update
More on the China Chip Ban, The AI Focus, Apple and YMTC — Stratechery Update
The Tik Tok War — Stratechery
Clubhouse's Inevitability — Stratechery
Market Making and Time Horizons, Clubhouse Struggling, What Did I Get Wrong? — Stratechery Update
An Interview With Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman About the Democratization of AI — Stratechery Interviews
Wired Headphones Are the New “It” Accessory — and We Should Have Seen It Coming — Teen Vogue
Mark Daigneault — Wikipedia
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13 min
October 18, 2022 Questions, Concerns and Unknowns after the China Chip Ban
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Biden Administration Clamps Down on China’s Access to Chip Technology — New York Times
The China Chip Ban; The Logic of the Ban; Chinese Retaliation, or Not — Stratechery Update
More on the China Chip Ban, The AI Focus, Apple and YMTC — Stratechery Update
American Executives in Limbo at Chinese Chip Companies After U.S. Ban — Wall Street Journal
Tanner Greer (@sholars_stage) — Twitter
‘No Possibility of Reconciliation’ as US Slams China Chips — Bloomberg
Choking Off China’s Access to the Future of AI — Center for Strategic and International Studies
Blinken Says China Wants to Seize Taiwan on ‘Much Faster Timeline’ — Bloomberg
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1 hr 1 min
October 14, 2022 Mailbag: Metaverse Week Concludes, A Hater's Take on Virtual Reality, The Apple Question, Touring the Stratechery Travel Kit
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An Interview With Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella About Partnering in the Metaverse — Stratechery Interviews
Meta and Microsoft — Stratechery
Enterprise Metaverses, Horizon Workrooms, Workrooms’ Facebook Problem — Stratechery Update
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12 min