Ben and James discuss Ben’s new Daily Update Podcast, and why Exponent is not on Spotify. Then, should regulators roll back acquisitions or prioritize the avoidance of unintended consequences?

Links

• Ben Thompson: The Daily Update Podcast — Stratechery
• Ben Thompson: The Rationale Behind the Daily Update Podcast, Podcasts and Email, Spotify and the Three Bens — Stratechery Daily Update
• Ben Thompson: Spotify’s Podcast Aggregation Play — Stratechery
• Ben Thompson: Spotify Earnings, Podcasts and Lifetime Value, The Ringer Acquisition — Stratechery Daily Update
• Ben Thompson: First, Do No Harm — Stratechery
• Ben Thompson re: Facebook Acquiring Instagram in 2011: Twitter
• Eric Jackson: Why the FTC Should Block Facebook’s Acquisition of Instagram — Forbes
• Ben Thompson: The End of the Beginning — Stratechery
   

• Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery
• James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review

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