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The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z Jun 8, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:11 Erik Torenberg You, you said in your talk with Ben Thompson that software is someone sat down and designed a workflow and said, this is the right way of doing this from now on.

Why Claude Feels Different (And What That Means for AI) | The a16z Show Apr 16, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:16 unnamed speaker Got Ben Thompson writing about technology and markets, and if you want to have an analysis of an earnings report of Microsoft, I mean, who better in the world than Ben Thompson?

The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About Dec 1, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:11 Russ Fraden I don't think that many people work for Ben Thompson Incorporated, and yet I imagine those are quite profitable businesses, the best I can tell.

Opendoor CEO: Building the Amazon for Homes Oct 7, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 34:27 Alex Rampell It's an interesting story, and, like, the other part of the story is, like, Ben Thompson wrote a post that almost, like, kind of summarizes in a more eloquent form, like what I was talking about with, like, you know, if you get all the, if… 2 times in the scene

The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future? Oct 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 59:06 Dan Wang Well, I want to quote from, um, the great analyst, uh, Ben Thompson here, who recently moved.

Substack Cofounder on AI Slop Content & the Decline of Social Media Sep 2, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:33 Andrew Chen And for mo, you know, for all of us that are in tech, um, you know, it was cool to see that, you know, you had Ben Thompson from Stratechery really show that like, oh, there's maybe an alternate model

Building Cluely: The Viral AI Startup that raised $15M in 10 Weeks w/ Roy Lee Jun 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:18 Erik Torenberg And I remember Ben Thompson had this post about Snap, where he said that Snap has a gingerbread strategy, where basically, you know, if they invent stuff, Meta is going to copy it.

The State of Consumer Tech in the Age of AI Jun 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:46 Erik Torenberg Ben Thompson, I think a decade ago at this point, had this blog post called Snapchat's Gingerbread Strategy, where he was basically saying, hey, anything Snap can do, Facebook can do better, but Snap is just gonna keep sort of coming up…
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