Podcast
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson
Hosted by Andrew Sharp and Ben Thompson · EN
A podcast about understanding how tech works and the way it is changing the world. Hosted by Andrew Sharp with Ben Thompson.
65episodes
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(Preview) Congress and TikTok, Listening to China to Understand the TikTok Concerns, Empty First Amendment Arguments
Mar 11, 2024Tap to summarizeThe latest legislative push to address TikTok’s relationship to ByteDance, Ben’s 2020 analysis of the threats posed by the app, the arguments and interests opposing a ban, and why US freedoms may ultimately be the best defense against a foreign influence campaign. To email the show: email@sharptech.fm @SharpTechPodcast Channel — YouTube @Stratechery Channel — YouTube Congress Considering TikTok Ban, TikTok’s War, What Now? — Stratechery Update The TikTok War — Stratechery Xi Jinping Thought, Facebook’s Blindspot, The Moat Map Revisited — Stratechery Update Lulu Cheng Meservey — @lulumeservey Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping's China by John Garnaut — Sinocism Get Sharp Tech Premium, Sharp China, Stratechery Update, Stratechery Interviews, Greatest of All Talk and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $12/month.
Transcribe →(Preview) Sharp Tech Holiday Hoopla: Streaming Mergers, Kitchen Tech, Worst Decisions, MBA Advice, Mac vs. PC and More
Dec 22, 2023Tap to summarizeGive your friends and family the gift of Stratechery Plus. Celebrating the end of the year with a few reactions to Wednesday’s Paramount-Warner Brothers rumors and a wide variety of mailbag questions. Happy holidays from the entire Sharp Tech team! To email the show: email@sharptech.fm Scoop: Warner Bros. Discovery in talks to merge with Paramount Global — Axios Get Sharp Tech Premium, Sharp China, Stratechery Update, Stratechery Interviews, Greatest of All Talk and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $12/month.
Transcribe →A Stratechery, Sharp Tech, and Sharp China Crossover on the Chip Ban, Taiwan, TikTok and More
Nov 16, 2023Tap to summarizeAfter one year of Sharp Tech and Sharp China, a summit with Ben Thompson, Bill Bishop and Andrew Sharp to discuss podcasting, the chip ban, the US-China relationship and beyond. To email the show: email@sharptech.fm To read the full transcript, click here. Get Sharp Tech Premium, Sharp China, Stratechery Update, Stratechery Interviews, Greatest of All Talk and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $12/month.
Transcribe →Your Regularly Scheduled Nvidia Hysteria, Nvidia and the Metaverse, Questions on Sony and Adyen
Aug 29, 2023Tap to summarizeTo email the show: email@sharptech.fm Nvidia Sales Surge as AI Boom Lifts Earnings — Wall Street Journal Nvidia On the Mountaintop — Stratechery Nvidia In the Valley — Stratechery An Impromptu Nvidia Symposium, A Brief History of Solaris and Sun Microsystems, The Future of AI Energy Consumption — Sharp Tech Get Sharp Tech Premium, Sharp China, Stratechery Update, Stratechery Interviews, Greatest of All Talk and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $12/month.
Transcribe →An All Things Apple Mailbag: AI and the Vision Pro, Gaming Ambivalence, Immersive Memories, VR Sports Rights
Jun 13, 2023Tap to summarizeTo email the show: email@sharptech.fm Apple Vision — Stratechery The End of the Beginning — Stratechery Quest vs. Vision, Vision and the Mac, Apple Acquires Mira — Stratechery Tech’s Two Philosophies — Stratechery Get Sharp Tech Premium, Sharp China, Stratechery Update, Stratechery Interviews, Greatest of All Talk and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $12/month.
Transcribe →(Preview) Vision Pro at First Sight: How It Works, Why It Costs $3,500, and What It Might Mean for the Future of Computing
Jun 7, 2023Tap to summarizeTo email the show: email@sharptech.fm Get Sharp Tech Premium, Sharp China, Stratechery Update, Stratechery Interviews, Greatest of All Talk and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $12/month.
Transcribe →A Few Questions Before Apple Embraces Virtual Reality, Meta Tries to Crash Headset Week, Nvidia and the Omniverse
Jun 4, 2023Tap to summarizeTo email the show: email@sharptech.fm Get Sharp Tech Premium, Sharp China, Stratechery Update, Stratechery Interviews, Greatest of All Talk and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $12/month.
Transcribe →(Preview) An Impromptu Nvidia Symposium, A Brief History of Solaris and Sun Microsystems, The Future of AI Energy Consumption
Jun 1, 2023Tap to summarizeTo email the show: email@sharptech.fm Get Sharp Tech Premium, Sharp China, Stratechery Update, Stratechery Interviews, Greatest of All Talk and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $12/month.
Transcribe →(Preview) Windows and the AI Platform Shift, OpenAI Enters the App Store, Follow-Up on Sports Streaming and Cable Hindsight
May 25, 2023Tap to summarizeTo email the show: email@sharptech.fm Get Sharp Tech Premium, Sharp China, Stratechery Update, Stratechery Interviews, Greatest of All Talk and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $12/month.
Transcribe →ESPN as Cable’s Grim Reaper, How the Cable Bundle Crumbled, What Taylor Swift Can Teach Content Companies
May 22, 2023Tap to summarizeTo email the show: email@sharptech.fm Get Sharp Tech Premium, Sharp China, Stratechery Update, Stratechery Interviews, Greatest of All Talk and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $12/month.
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