Episode 130 — The 50,000 Foot View

Ben and James walk through the history of Stratechery to explain why Facebook is inescapable for a podcast about tech and society.

Links

• Ben Thompson: Tech Goes to Washington — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2017/tech-goes-to-washington)

• John Gruber: Blackberry vs. iPhone — Daring Fireball (daringfireball.net/2008/05/blackberry_vs_iphone) (note: I said on the podcast this was written in 2007; it was written in 2008)

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

• Ben Thompson: The State of Consumer Technology at the End of 2014 — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2014/state-consumer-technology…)

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

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

• Ben Thompson: More Spectacles Mea Culpas — Stratechery Daily Update (stratechery.com/2017/more-spectacles-mea-culpa…)

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

• Ben Thompson: Google’s Earnings — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2017/googles-earnings-google-c…)

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

• Ben Thompson: TV Advertising’s Suprising Strength — and Inevitable Fall — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2016/tv-advertisings-surprisin…)

• Ben Thompson: The Brexit Possibility — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2016/the-brexit-possibility)

• Ben Thompson: Dollar Shaving Club and the Disruption of Everything — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2016/dollar-shave-club-and-the…)

• Ben Thompson: The Voters Decide — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2016/the-voters-decide)

• Ben Thompson: Tech Goes to Washington — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2017/tech-goes-to-washington)

• Ben Thompson: The Facebook Epoch — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2015/the-facebook-epoch)

• Facebook’s Earnings Call — Seeking Alpha (seekingalpha.com/article/4119327-facebook-fb-q…)

• James Allworth: Founders and Motivations — Stratechery Daily Update (stratechery.com/2017/facebooks-incentives-and-…)

• Ben Thompson: Manifestos and Monopolies — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2017/manifestos-and-monopolies)

• Ben Thompson: The Super-Aggregators and the Russians — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2017/the-super-aggregators-and…)

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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