Episode 138 — A Moat Too Far

Ben and James discuss Amazon Go and what it says about the economics of tech and how Amazon is building multiple monopolies.

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Links

• Ben Thompson: Amazon Go and the Future — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2018/amazons-go-and-the-future)

• Ben Thompson: The Amazon Tax — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2016/the-amazon-tax)

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• 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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