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A new wave of company creation
23 augustus 2022 · 31 min
Adam Neumann's latest venture shines a light on some of the interesting questions that arise, such as: What is this, what could it be, and can it work? Can this person make it work? As well as, is this the kind of deal we should be doing? Do we understand this? Lees meer
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Lighting and tech diffusion
15 augustus 2022 · 26 min
What does a light on a restaurant table say about the failure of smart home startups? Or Shein? Lees meer
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The FTC's antitrust thesis
2 augustus 2022 · 27 min
The US is fundamentally rethinking its approach to competition, and M&A, and tech, and big tech buying startups. The FTC trying to block Meta from buying Within is the test case for all of those. How many interesting problems can we cover in 30 minutes? Lees meer
When big tech buys small tech
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When the point of leverage changes
25 juli 2022 · 38 min
What does 'focus' mean for a trillion dollar company? Amazon is buying doctors and Apple might be a bank - should we change our assumptions for what these kinds of companies would never do? How does the point of leverage change? Lees meer
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Remember AI?
18 juli 2022 · 34 min
Five years ago AI was everything, but attention moved on (Metaverse! Crypto!) and ‘Applied AI’ became useful but boring. Now things like DALL-E look cool, but what are they useful for? What’s the second wave? Lees meer
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What's next for advertising?
6 juni 2022 · 32 min
Advertising is $700bn - after IDFA and the cookie apocalypse, what else is breaking apart and where do things land? Lees meer
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Three ways to say no
30 mei 2022 · 30 min
The more that governments, regulators, policy-makers and activists demand that tech works differently, the more argument there is, and the more that tech people and companies people say ‘no!’ But what does it mean when a tech company, or indeed any company in any industry, says ’no’? Lees meer
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Shein, TikTok and Netflix - thinking about limits
26 mei 2022 · 36 min
Shein added 60k new products in the last week - double Zara and H&M's total combined stock. Netflix made more shows last year than the entire US TV industry back when it start streaming. What happens when you remove physical limits? What's the feedback cycle? Lees meer
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Metaverse - how to be wrong in the right way
17 mei 2022 · 35 min
What do we mean when we say 'the metaverse'? And what do we mean by interoperability? Lees meer
It's far more useful to get specific about how we think about the future of the internet. What will it do and not do? How will it work and not work? If we are going to make predictions and be wrong, we might as well be wrong in specific ways.
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Stories in the noise
2 mei 2022 · 39 min
Elon made a lot of noise this week, but what else was going on? We chat about half a dozen things that happened in tech this week, all of them more interesting than the bird company. Lees meer
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Netflix isn't a tech company
26 april 2022 · 40 min
Netflix missed its numbers, but what's really going on in streaming? Is this a tech company, and does it have winner-takes-all effects? Or are all the questions to ask really about television? And whatever happened to the Apple TV? Lees meer
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The future of Twitter
18 april 2022 · 36 min
Elon is on manoeuvres, but what are the problems? Has he thought about this at all? Why has Twitter always been such a mess, and why is it such a tiny company?
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Are you a seal?
12 april 2022 · 31 min
‘Big tech’ is big and scary, but do they care about your market? They could come in, yes, and make a mess, but would that make any sense for them? And, do you look like a seal? Lees meer
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The Evolution of networks
14 maart 2022 · 41 min
Web3 will remake networks, content and online publishing - apparently. But how many cycles have we been through, how much do the forms, networks and intersections change, and what does it mean to own your data? Is that even possible? Lees meer
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Ukraine
7 maart 2022 · 38 min
A chat about Ukraine without pretending we know about Russia, geopolitics and Ukraine. Rather we will focus on some of the things happening in and around tech with regards to this. And we are absolutely conscious these may not be the most important things happening right now. Lees meer
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Talking about crypto
1 maart 2022 · 40 min
Crypto is so big and yet so unclear that we can’t even agree what to call it. What does ‘web3’ mean, what might it mean, how do we ignore the noise, and what questions might matter? Lees meer
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The retail reset
21 februari 2022 · 34 min
Everything comes out of Covid (we hope), especially retail. US ecommerce penetration jumped forward a little and the UK a lot, but what kinds of companies, brands and stories can be created now that everything and anything can be online? Lees meer
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Asking the dumb questions
18 februari 2022 · 41 min
One thing is obvious in tech, there are so many questions worth exploring. In 2022, we are thinking about cars and infrastructure, crypto and web3, AR and VR, games and regulations. It's less about hat we focus on maybe, and more about how we think about these topics and what questions are worth paying attention to. Lees meer
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What we know about web 3 so far
15 november 2021 · 42 min
Another episode on our theme ‘how to talk about X if you’re not in the field’ - this time ‘Web3’, the new brand name for crypto. How do we ignore the noise (SO much noise) and think about where and how this will be useful? Lees meer
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How to think about tech
8 november 2021 · 37 min
We can talk all day about crypto, or VR or Facebook, but how might we talk about *everything* in tech? What are the frameworks and tools to structure the noise?
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The Meta reality
2 november 2021 · 41 min
There are two strands to this story: the second phase of Facebook which is the Metaverse (which we previously spoke about on the podcast) and Facebook actually changing its name to Meta. If and when you decide to create a new brand because the existing brand comes with a lot of baggage, a marketing person would probably suggest you fix the problems first, and then decide how to communicate the rebrand. So why would Facebook move to ‘Meta’ today? Lees meer
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Metaverse - beyond the buzzword
18 oktober 2021 · 40 min
‘Metaverse’ is the buzzword of the moment, yet it doesn’t really exist as more than a label on a whiteboard, and many of the ideas it tries to combine might not happen, or not like that. This might be the new ‘information highway.’ But however it works, some kind of break-out of new devices, new experiences and new kinds of popular culture seems pretty easy to believe in. Lees meer
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Regulation - Who will notice?
28 september 2021 · 36 min
Tech regulation and the problems that prompt it to fill every headline. But is structural change coming? Who will this affect? Who will notice? Lees meer
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Apple's metronome
20 september 2021 · 40 min
The new iPhones are boring, and why that's interesting. Plus, Apple and Epic stumble towards a new App Store model, and - Real Soon Now - Apple! glasses! and! cars! It's the Apple metronome. Lees meer
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Games and Roblox
26 augustus 2021 · 36 min
The barrier to entry to gaming is lower than it has ever been. But are there more gamers today? Are more 10-year-olds playing games today than they did 10 years ago? And why are we more focused on what is happening in this space? Lees meer
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Telcos and Tesla
15 augustus 2021 · 40 min
Why hasn't tech disrupted mobile network operators? Smartphones changed everything about mobile, and yet the networks are all still there with pretty much the same business. Does software always matter? At what level of the stack? And what's the read-across to cars? Lees meer
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Creativity and Optimism
13 juli 2021 · 52 min
A conversation about creativity, working with tech and optimism with Nicolas Roope, agency and startup co-founder who has ridden many of the revolutions we talk about on this show. Lees meer
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'Digital transformation' - beyond the silly slogan
5 juli 2021 · 43 min
'Digital transformation' sounds like a terrible marketing slogan, but it describes a pretty basic generational change in how big companies do tech. Why is that interesting if you're not a big company? Lees meer
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Tech in china, from inside and outside
29 juni 2021 · 57 min
This is a follow-up to our conversation on Chinese tech with someone who knows a lot more about this space than we do - Lillian Li, who writes the weekly newsletter, Chinese Characteristics. Lees meer
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The Business of publishing
21 juni 2021 · 53 min
This is a follow-up to our conversation on Ad Tech with someone who knows a little more about this space than we do - Jeremy White, Executive Editor WIRED UK. Lees meer
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Paying attention to Apple again
14 juni 2021 · 42 min
Why do we watch WWDC? Did Apple do anything that matters if you don't own an iPhone? And what's the war on privacy? Lees meer
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Trying to understand Ad Tech
14 maart 2021 · 37 min
Online advertising is worth $300bn, and yet almost no-one that doesn't work on an ad team really understands much of it. So what is the cookie apocalypse, what does it mean, and where is the money and power moving? No, we don't know either. Lees meer
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App stores: arguing like it's 2009
7 maart 2021 · 30 min
Benedict and Toni discuss the ongoing debates surrounding app stores, but specifically Apple's app store. Lees meer
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Who's in the office? Notes on a year of remote work.
1 maart 2021 · 38 min
Benedict and Toni discuss remote work, collaboration and conferences in 2022. Lees meer
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Shopify and digital transformation
21 februari 2021 · 37 min
Benedict and Toni discuss changing habits, digital transformation and Shopify. Lees meer
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Clubhouse and the endless cycle of social apps
15 februari 2021 · 35 min
Benedict and Toni discuss the new forms of social, and specifically Clubhouse, the latest social audio app. Lees meer
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Bezos and the Amazon machine
7 februari 2021 · 40 min
Benedict and Toni discuss Amazon and solving problems. Lees meer
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Telling stories with charts
31 januari 2021 · 42 min
Benedict and Toni discuss the best ways to tell compelling stories with charts. Lees meer
The presentation we discussed
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Why do we care about games?
24 januari 2021 · 31 min
Benedict and Toni discuss why games matter and their place within the tech industry. Lees meer
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Two Europeans talk about China
17 januari 2021 · 40 min
How do we look at China if we're *not* China experts? Lees meer
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There's no such thing as data
10 januari 2021 · 45 min
Benedict and Toni talk about data, buzzwords and TED talks. Lees meer
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The history of doom-scrolling
3 januari 2021 · 45 min
Benedict and Toni talk about newsletters and more specifically, Substack. Lees meer
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What comes next?
22 december 2020 · 27 min
Benedict and Toni talk about what comes after the smartphone, and whether even matter. Maybe the models of how to think about this question have more to offer us than the question itself. Lees meer
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The FTC and Facebook
14 december 2020 · 38 min
Benedict and Toni talk about the latest big antitrust push - the US (both states and FTC) versus Facebook. Will it work? And how to contrast it with the laws the EU will announce this week? Lees meer
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Slack, Salesforce and the future of work
7 december 2020 · 29 min
Benedict and Toni talk about the latest Slack acquisition by Salesforce and what this means for the whole 'future of work' thing. Lees meer
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F1 - the plane that never takes off
30 november 2020 · 45 min
Benedict and Toni talk about Formula 1 and 50s experimental aircraft, and how they overlap in interesting ways with technology, innovation, and creation. Lees meer
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The acceleration of ecommerce habits
23 november 2020 · 34 min
Benedict and Toni discuss how ecommerce shot up in lockdown and what habits may be sticking. Lees meer
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The paradox of Apple
16 november 2020 · 33 min
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Is content moderation a dead end?
9 november 2020 · 42 min
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How do you destroy a tech monopoly?
2 november 2020 · 41 min
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