Episode 129 — The Disruption Antidote

Ben and James discuss why acquisitions should be the focus of tech regulators in the context of Facebook buying tbh today, and Instagram and WhatsApp previously.

Links

• Ben Thompson: Why Facebook Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Buy TBH — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2017/why-facebook-shouldnt-be-…)

• Marco Arment: The Impossible Dream of USB-C — Marco.org (marco.org/2017/10/14/impossible-dream-of-usb-c)

• Ben Thompson: Peak Google — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2014/peak-google)

• Ben Thompson: Mobile Makes Facebook Just an App; That’s Great News — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2013/mobile-makes-facebook-jus…)

• Ben Thompson: Revisiting Peak Google, Again — Stratechery Daily Update (stratechery.com/2017/alphabets-earnings-revisi…)

• Ben Thompson: Defining Aggregators — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2017/defining-aggregators)

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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