Lighting and tech diffusion
What does a light on a restaurant table say about the failure of smart home startups? Or Shein?Follow Benedict on TwitterFollow Toni on Twitter
15 Aug 202226min
The FTC's antitrust thesis
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...
1 Aug 202226min
When the point of leverage changes
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 t...
25 Jul 202237min
Remember AI?
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 seco...
18 Jul 202234min
What's next for advertising?
Advertising is $700bn - after IDFA and the cookie apocalypse, what else is breaking apart and where do things land?Follow Benedict on TwitterFollow Toni on Twitter
6 Jun 202232min
Three ways to say no
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 wha...
30 Mai 202230min
Shein, TikTok and Netflix - thinking about limits
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 ...
26 Mai 202235min
Metaverse - how to be wrong in the right way
What do we mean when we say 'the metaverse'? And what do we mean by interoperability?It's far more useful to get specific about how we think about the future of the internet. What will it do and not d...
16 Mai 202234min
