Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

What's Going on at Amazon? and AI Language Barriers

Jan 16, 2023

01:07:11

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Episode guests

Brad Stone

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

The Importance of Being Yourself Online

01:42

E-commerce unexpectedly declined after COVID-19

01:17

Hoarding technology talent

01:51

Are We Pro-Free Speech?

02:22

Introduction

2min

What's Going on at Amazon?

5min

Amazon Misreads the Pandemic

5min

Amazon and the Book Business

5min

AWS Is Like the Canonical Example of Why You Should Trust Amazon, Right?

2min

Is There a Resale Market for Alexa?

2min

Is It Just Not Good Enough?

4min

The Costs Matter for a Company Like Amazon

4min

I Like That Glass Half Full Spin on Things

2min

10.

Is That What Jeff Bezos Wants?

2min

11.

Amazon Prime Video - Is There Really a Meaningful Shift?

3min

12.

Is Jeff Bezos Additive or Negative for Amazon?

4min

13.

Is Web Three Really Necessary?

3min

14.

Is It Possible That AI Enables Deeper Cross Cultural Integrations?

5min

15.

Are We Pro-Free Speech?

2min

16.

I Don't Want Life Advice Question

1min

17.

How to Build a Community in a Small Market?

3min

18.

Is There a Community in Tech?

4min

19.

Is There a Community in Sports?

3min

20.

In Person Community - Is That Really Good for You?

3min

21.

Soda Stream Refrigerator - My Favorite Ben Thompson Fact

2min

22.

Sharp Tech's Carbonated Water Faucet

2min

To email the show: email@sharptech.fm

Amazon confirms its massive layoffs will affect 18,000 employees — The Verge

Amazon Kept Inventing, and Now It’s Going to Start Cutting — Bloomberg

Amazon Earnings, Amazon’s Costs, Amazon Closes Stores — Stratechery Update

An Interview with Brad Stone about Amazon Unbound — Stratechery Interviews

Day Two to One Day — Stratechery

Alexa: Amazon’s Operating System — Stratechery

Meta open sources early-stage AI translation tool that works across 200 languages — The Verge

Social Networking 2.0 — Stratechery

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Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

What&#39;s Going on at Amazon? and AI Language Barriers

Episode guests

The Importance of Being Yourself Online

E-commerce unexpectedly declined after COVID-19

Hoarding technology talent

Are We Pro-Free Speech?

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