John Gruber, every mention
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Holiday Special 2023 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:04:53 Ben Gilbert I found out about it because, ah, Nilay Patel was just on, ah, the talk show with John Gruber, and he is right to say it totally pegs your GPUs while you're using it, but it is pure magic.
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 8:13 Ben Thompson And then also, working with Johnny can be a bit of a perfectionist, so it took us that long to get the website looking just how we wanted it to.
- ▶ 14:35 Ben Thompson And then John Gruber started during Fireball around 2003.
- ▶ 17:06 David Rosenthal Like, everybody you mentioned, Ezra Klein, Gruber's different.
- ▶ 17:09 David Rosenthal We'll talk about Gruber later.
- ▶ 27:33 Ben Thompson Also, again, I just felt like there was this hole and opportunity and I sort of looked at Gruber as someone that was like, well, he did it, but it was also pretty clear that an advertising based model was probably not going to work.
- ▶ 28:10 Ben Thompson And I think Gruber's model is the right one where I think it's actually underrated that I think he actually kind of invented native advertising because you read every piece of content that he writes.
- ▶ 28:40 David Rosenthal But you didn't think you could do the same thing that John does?
- ▶ 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,
- ▶ 31:18 Ben Thompson Gruber was at the right place, the right time for Apple, for sure.
- ▶ 40:39 Ben Thompson I mean, this is where the other Gruber story comes in, where
- ▶ 40:48 Ben Thompson I had waited to email John because for the same principles at the beginning, I wanted to have a body of content, not just like an introductory post.
- ▶ 41:26 Ben Thompson Couple weeks later, I'm at Microsoft, and I get an email from him pointing out that I'd made a grammatical error.
- ▶ 41:38 Ben Thompson And he's like, I make this mistake all the time.
- ▶ 41:40 Ben Thompson He's like, tell me the etymology of each one.
- ▶ 41:55 Ben Thompson So I thought, well, he's probably gonna post a link to the site.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 42:04 Ben Thompson He has all those short snippets.
- ▶ 42:06 Ben Thompson Instead he, it's a full article and he starts out saying, all my readers should be reading this new site that I've discovered.
- ▶ 42:18 Ben Thompson And then he whiffs like three articles.
- ▶ 42:22 Ben Thompson He's like,
- ▶ 42:29 Ben Thompson And then he gets to the end.
- ▶ 42:30 Ben Thompson He's like, but for the first time I disagree with Thompson.
- ▶ 42:34 Ben Thompson And then he spends another thousand words saying why I was wrong about something, which was fine.
- ▶ 42:37 Ben Thompson I mean, I think he was wrong.
- ▶ 43:11 Ben Thompson So I had 500 Twitter followers when he posted that, and within 12 hours I had 1500 Twitter followers.
- ▶ 51:52 Ben Thompson The Gruber one being the first one in November, I actually ended up reaching a thousand, which is my one year goal.
- ▶ 1:07:56 Ben Thompson So I launched Dithering with Gruber.
- ▶ 1:09:48 Ben Thompson Again, it's Cohen with John and some of your subscribers maybe don't like me
- ▶ 1:10:27 Ben Gilbert Andrew or John better.
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 50:19 Ben Gilbert Or I can listen to the talk show with John Gruber and it's just like, if I missed out on 20 minutes because I was like brushing my teeth