Exponent 162 — Why Exponent Isn’t on Spotify

Ben and James discuss Spotify’s move into podcasts and integration and modularity in value chains.

Links

• Ben Thompson: Spotify’s Podcast Aggregation Play — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2019/spotifys-podcast-aggregat…)

• Ben Thompson: Lessons From Spotify — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2018/lessons-from-spotify)

• Ben Thompson: Podcasts, Analytics, and Centralization — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2017/podcasts-analytics-and-ce…)

• Ben Thompson: The Future of Podcasting — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2016/the-future-of-podcasting)

• Ben Thompson: The BuzzFeed Lesson — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2019/the-buzzfeed-lesson)

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…)

Podcast Information

• Feed (exponent.fm/feed)

• iTunes (itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/exponent/id826420969)

• SoundCloud (soundcloud.com/exponentfm)

• Twitter (twitter.com/exponentfm)

• Feedback (stratechery.com/exponent-feedback)