About - Stratechery by Ben Thompson
WEBAuthor. Stratechery is written by me, Ben Thompson. I am based in Taipei, Taiwan, and am fully supported by my work at Stratechery. I’ve worked previously at Apple (interned), Microsoft, and Automattic, where I focused on strategy, developer relations, and marketing for Apple University, Windows, and WordPress.com.
Articles - Stratechery by Ben Thompson
WEBJul 22, 2024 · The Great Flattening. Monday, May 13, 2024. Apple’s iPad ad might not have been good for Apple, but it was a profound encapsulation of what has happened on the Internet; the question is what it leads to next.
Concepts - Stratechery by Ben Thompson
WEBIn consumer technology — and increasingly enterprise — the best user experience wins, and it is the best hedge against disruption. The key to avoiding disruption is by providing a superior user experience; that, though, requires focus and execution. Aggregators succeed by being the best at doing the jobs consumers want done.
Topics – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
WEBTaiwan. Taylor Swift. Technologies. Technology and Society. The Future. The Innovator’s Dilemma. The Internet and Media. The Internet Epoch. The Mobile Epoch.
Podcasts - Stratechery by Ben Thompson
WEBMar 13, 2020 · Exponent Podcast: Open, Free, and Spotify. Friday, May 15, 2020. On Exponent, the weekly podcast I host with James Allworth, we discuss Dithering and Open Versus Free. Listen to it here.
Apple’s Shifting Differentiation – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
WEBNov 11, 2020 · Apple 3.0: Hardware Over Software. Sixteen years on from the PowerPC-to-Intel transition, and Apple’s software differentiation is the smallest it has been since the dawn of OS X. Windows has a Subsystem for Linux, which, combined with the company’s laser focus on developers, makes Microsoft products increasingly attractive for software ...
Stripe: Platform of Platforms – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
WEBDec 3, 2020 · Stripe: Platform of Platforms. Thursday, December 3, 2020. Today Stripe is announcing Stripe Treasury; from the company’s press release: Stripe, the technology company building economic infrastructure for the Internet, today announced that it is launching Stripe Treasury. This gives Stripe’s platform users powerful APIs to …
Five Lessons From Dave Chappelle - Stratechery by Ben Thompson
WEBNov 30, 2020 · Lesson Two: Talent in an Analog World. This lesson is exposed in two parts; first, Chappelle on his precociousness as a child comedian: A few minutes later, though, Chappelle admits that fourteen years after he started as a standup comedian he signed a deal to make Chappelle’s Show under some amount …
Cloudflare on the Edge – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
WEBMay 11, 2021 · Cloudflare on the Edge. Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Matthew Prince, at the end of his prepared remarks after Cloudflare’s recent earnings report, related a story from the company’s earliest days: Back in 2010, right before Cloudflare’s first Board meeting and our launch, I got some advice from one of our early investors.
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