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Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:15:55 Ben Gilbert And he pours over the regulation and he synthesizes it all from all the different bodies, whether it's the USDA or the FTC or the state of California.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 25:53 Steve Ballmer I don't know if you guys know this, is the FTC at the time thought we and IBM were working to, uh, divide the market because we had done some positioning.
- ▶ 26:06 Steve Ballmer We and IBM had done that because, and then they said, no, you guys are colluding.
- ▶ 26:19 Steve Ballmer This was an FTC case, and they started it in, in basically, 90, just as we were getting, I think, 90, maybe 89, as we were getting our divorce.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:35:24 Ben Gilbert They had just signed what is called a consent decree with the FTC, the US Federal Trade Commission, in 2011, and they promised to make a bunch of changes regarding user privacy issues going forward, and so all this was behind them now.
- ▶ 3:35:38 Ben Gilbert And interestingly, David, an FTC consent decree is the same thing that Microsoft signed.
- ▶ 3:35:47 Ben Gilbert Yes, the FTC consent decree with Microsoft was the predecessor to the big DOJ suit.
- ▶ 3:35:51 Ben Gilbert In this case, the FTC consent decree is the predecessors to what eventually would become the Cambridge Analytica settlement.
- ▶ 4:41:39 Ben Gilbert Could kind of do no wrong, other than all the data privacy issues that they had sort of worked through with the FTC in 2011.
- ▶ 4:55:15 Ben Gilbert As you can imagine, the Cambridge Analytica news coming out put a gigantic bullseye on Facebook, and the FTC said, aha, you guys signed a consent decree a mere seven years ago.
- ▶ 4:56:22 David Rosenthal And specifically the FTC settlement.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 54:59 David Rosenthal Yeah, so the Microsoft antitrust saga actually started not with the Department of Justice, and not in 1998, but with the Federal Trade Commission, the FTC, all the way back in 1990, when they opened an investigation into the company about…
- ▶ 55:31 David Rosenthal So in July, 1993, the FTC commissioners vote on whether Microsoft is a monopoly that deserves further action and penalties, and they deadlock at two to two, which means essentially a win for Microsoft.
- ▶ 56:59 David Rosenthal And in fact, several members of the FTC commission opposed this whole process and tried to refuse to turn over their notes to the Justice Department.
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:35:18 Ben Thompson Number two, I would acquire Shopify and I would take the FTC and Justice Department to court when they sue to stop it.
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 1:37:37 David Rosenthal And Apple did, and the DOJ did, uh, not, the FTC sued them for antitrust.
- ▶ 1:50:35 Ben Gilbert So, um, in 2017, uh, going back one previous year, uh, both the US Federal Trade Commission and Apple sue Qualcomm for basically the same thing, saying that Qualcomm was using its market position as the dominant smartphone modem supplier…
Walmart · Acquired
- ▶ 45:46 Ben Gilbert Did you know their slogan for a long time was always the lowest price always, but then there was like a FTC lawsuit against them where they changed to always low prices because it was like false advertising that they didn't always have the…