Benedict's Newsletter: No. 548
How Technology Shapes Content and Business Models (Or Audio’s Opportunity and Who Will Capture It) — MatthewBall.co
Matthew Ballmatthewball.vc
From a value chain perspective, though, music and podcasts could not be more different:
Ben Thompson • Spotify’s Podcast Aggregation Play

Two challenges: first, yes, this does make life harder for Slack etc, but, if we took this logic at face value then your word processor would not be allowed to include a spell checker and your spreadsheet could not do charts (in the 1980s both of these were separate purchases). What’s the coherent theory for how we choose the trade-off between inte
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Media, Regulators, and Big Tech; Indulgences and Injunctions; Better Approaches
Ben Thompsonstratechery.com