Episode 104 — Snap’s Gingerbread Strategy

Ben and James compare Snap and Facebook to Apple and Microsoft, and worry that Snap’s business is misaligned.

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Links

• Ben Thompson: Snap’s Apple Strategy — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2017/snaps-apple-strategy)

• Ben Thompson: The Truth About Windows Versus the Mac — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2013/apple-open-and-learning-f…)

• Ben Thompson: What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2013/clayton-christensen-got-w…)

• Ben Thompson: The Audacity of Copying Well — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2016/the-audacity-of-copying-w…)

• Ben Thompson: Aggregation Theory — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2015/aggregation-theory)

• Ben Thompson: Snapchat Spectacles and the Future of Wearables — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2016/snapchat-spectacles-and-t…)

• Ben Thompson: Old-Fashioned Snapchat — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2015/old-fashioned-snapchat)

Hosts

• Ben Thompson, @benthompson (twitter.com/benthompson), Stratechery (stratechery.com)

• James Allworth, @jamesallworth (twitter.com/jamesallworth), Harvard Business Review (hbr.org/search?term=James+Allworth&sort=po…)

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