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Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 14:35 Ben Thompson And then John Gruber started during Fireball around 2003.
- ▶ 30:16 Ben Gilbert For anybody who doesn't read Daring Fireball and doesn't know who John Gruber is that we're talking about, quick lesson when Ben says that he invented the in-feed advertisement,
- ▶ 30:23 Ben Gilbert You go to daringfireball.net, yes.net, and you see the same exact website that's been there for 10, close to 20 years at this point, and most of it is links out to other things, some of it's long-form, well-thought-through pieces, and some…
- ▶ 30:45 Ben Gilbert Now, I think the set of people who are likely to use an RSS reader and who are likely to go directly to daringfireball.net
- ▶ 35:05 Ben Thompson And so my initial model was still Daring Fireball like where I figured, oh, I'd have big articles.
- ▶ 41:57 Ben Thompson So I'm like sitting on the analytics page and I'm sitting on Daring Fireball, seeing what he will post.